undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II. Germany's Army Group North advanced...

Contributors and positions held at time of broadcast 22 September 2016 Zeno's paradoxes Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics and Simonyi Professor for the...

original on January 19, 2024. Massot, Pascale (2024). China's Vulnerability Paradox: How the World's Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets...

was ultimately victorious in March 1939. With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in July 1937, the Soviet Union and China signed a non-aggression...

1992, p. 352 Lane 1992, pp. 352–353 Dinkel, R.H. (1990). "The Seeming Paradox of Increasing Mortality in a Highly Industrialized Nation: the Example...

and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages". This is demonstrated...

to a friend of Stalin, a fellow revolutionary, and was raised in Saint Petersburg. Having known Stalin from a young age, she married him when she was 17...

influence. The Sino-Soviet split transformed the geopolitics of the bi-polar cold war into a tri-polar cold war, and facilitated Sino-American rapprochement...

University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16388-9. Kotkin, Stephen (2014). Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-1594203794. Kotkin, Stephen...

2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023. Keslassy, Elsa (12 May 2021). "SF Studios' Paradox to Produce Erik Poppe's Period Drama 'Quisling'". Variety. Archived from...

solving problems. — Mao Zedong, Little Red Book At the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War and, more widely, World War II, the Chinese Communist Revolution...

Pauly. Brill Reference Online. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e102220. Dale S. Sinos (1991), The Entry of Achilles into Greek Epic, PhD thesis, Johns Hopkins...

communist terrorists only as part of a propaganda campaign. In the 1960s, the Sino–Soviet split (between two communist states) led to a marked increase in terrorist...

humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. These incidents have been referred to as "the...

especially his mathematical treatment of Brownian motion, his resolution of the paradox of specific heats, and his connection of fluctuations and dissipation....

Russia in Afghanistan and Chechnya: Military Strategic Culture and the Paradoxes of Asymmetric Conflict. Carlisle: U.S. Army War College. ISBN 978-1-58487-110-1...

other did not represent the true national interest. This civil war–like paradox has been seen in the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, as...

which would follow its own ideological path of development following the Sino-Soviet split. Communism was seen as a rival of and a threat to Western capitalism...

Iran. Protected by Dutch naval power, competition from Bengali silk and Sino-Japanese porcelain contributed to the decline of the Safavid economy during...

Christianity without formally adopting either of them. His choice is not paradoxical, since, according to him—in the wake of René Guénon—Russian Orthodoxy...

Chinese Communist Party chose to split from the Soviet Union, resulting in the Sino-Soviet split. Mao Zedong famously declared that Stalin was 70% good and 30%...

as the Self-Strengthening Movement. While initially successful, the First Sino-Japanese War brought an abrupt end to the relative stability the Qing had...

was released from exile. On March 25 he returned to Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) with just a typewriter and a wicker suitcase, wearing a suit he had on...

1593, the Ming troops, led by Li Rusong, went into battle. By May 1593, the Sino-Korean forces had pushed the enemy to the vicinity of Busan in southeastern...

Publishing. pp. 11–12. ISBN 9781472833440. Sakwa, Richard (2020). The Putin Paradox. Bloomsbury, United Kingdom: I. B. Tauris. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-78831-830-3...

literature students. [...] Something about sorting through ambiguity, paradox, and hidden meanings equipped students for espionage." (p. 54.) "[In the...

views expressed by the two emperors in regards to ethnicity are somewhat paradoxical; Basil defined the Roman Empire in ethnic terms (defining it as explicitly...

showed promising results, the years from 1965 to 1986 showed a complete paradox of events. The income per capita rose, the economy was growing, yet people...

Russian). Arzamas. Retrieved 10 December 2020. "Fyodor Dostoyevsky "My Paradox" (Extract)". russianuniverse.org. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 15 December...

anywhere in the Third World. Khrushchev's speech was largely a response to the Sino-Soviet split of 1960 as Mao Zedong had accused Khrushchev of "revisionism"...