About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: People Born in the Russian Empire, Russians, Russian Empire, Russian Empire, Russian Heads of State, Soviet Union, Wars Involving Russia, Alexey Stakhanov, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Gromyko, Andrei Tupolev, Andrei Vlasov, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Fedor Tolbukhin, George Kistiakowsky, Georgi Flerov, Georgy Zhukov, Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia, Igor Kurchatov, Iona Nikitchenko, Ivan Koniev, Joseph Stalin, Jozef Pilsudski, Lavrenty Beria, Lazar Kaganovich, Leonid Brezhnev, Leon Trotsky, Maxim Litvinov, Menachem Begin, Nicholas II of Russia, Nikita Khrushchev, Polina Zhemchuzhina, Sergei Yaroslavsky's Mother, Shmuel Birnbaum, Vera Kuznetsova, Vladimir Lenin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Alaska, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Russia, Siberia, Ukraine, Alaska, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Courland, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Siberia, Tannu Tuva, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexander I of Russia, Alexey Stakhanov, Alla Pugacheva, Andrei Gromyko, Andrei Tupolev, Andrei Vlasov, Catherine II of Russia, Chaim Alexov, Dmitri Shepilov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Fedor Tolbukhin, Georgi Flerov, Georgy Zhukov, Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia, Igor Kurchatov, Iona Nikitchenko, Iosef Trofimovich Mladenov, Ivan Koniev, Maxim Litvinov, Menachem Begin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nicholas II of Russia, Nikolai Yezhov, Peter I of Russia, Sergei Yaroslavsky, Shmuel Birnbaum, Vladimir Gluzdovsky, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Yuri Ilyich Kronov, Allied Forces, Communism, Red Army, Soviet Air Force, Soviet Navy, Great War, Russian Civil War, Russo-Japanese War, Second Great War, World War I. Excerpt: Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov (1906 1977) was a miner in the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor (1970), and a member of the CPSU (1936). He became a celebrity in 1935 as part of a movement that was intended to increase worker...