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Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

  • Ukrainian Soviet Socialist RepublicThe Bolsheviks convened a separate congress and declared the first Soviet Republic of Ukraine on the 24th of December 1917.
  • Kino-EyeIn the early 1920s, cinema emerged as a central medium of artistic expression in the Soviet Union. Revolutionary leaders like Lenin and Trotsky celebrated…
  • Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern BukovinaIn 1812, the Treaty of Bucharest transferred Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. This region had been a vassal state of the Ottomans as…
  • LysenkoismIn 1923, Ivan Pavlov announced that conditioned reflexes could be inherited in mice. Soviet ideologists ignored his later withdrawal of this claim and used…