The Milyukov note, which reafirmed Russia's support for the Allies in WWI, was sent by Pavel Milyukov in early 1917, and led to massive protests (The April Crisis) and Milyukov's resignation from the Provisional Government cabinet. I am looking to find the date it was sent and the date the new socialist ministers joined the cabinet following Milyukov's resignation.

Wikipedia says the note was sent on April 20, but I'm not sure if this is an Old Style or New Style date. If it's Old Style what is the corresponding New Style date?

I was reading about how Deng Xiaoping opened up China and reformed the economy by allowing private enterprise and whatnot. Then I wondered, Gorbachev was also trying to reform the Soviet Union around the same time, but his actions led to the dissolution of the Union. So I was wondering, why wasn't Gorbachev successful, but Deng Xiaoping was?

I remember seeing a decumintery years ago with an American guarding German POWs who was shocked to find that after disclosing the name of his home town in America to one of the german POWs that the POW could name fine geographical details about the area. Apparently the German POW claimed that he was supposed to be part of the German administration over the colony's after a German victory and the guys home town was within the area he was tasked to cover.

My question is did the Germans really do fine detailed research into the geography and resources of the U.S. and carve out administration areas in preparation for a post war occupation?

All I could find was that a king saw it on a group of mercenaries and decided it looked cool, so he made his court do the same. Is that true? If so why were the mercenaries wearing ties?

There seems to have been thousands of educational films from the 1940s-1970s on every subject imaginable: hygiene, how to eat, how to buy food, how to dress, how to be popular, how to have manners, how truck farming works, how to speak in public, how to have good posture, ad nauseum. These films seem to have been targeted at everyone from school children, to housewives, to college students, to young couples, to businessmen. Why? What prompted the creation of all these instructional films and why did they have a heyday in the middle of the 20th century and then seem to quickly fall out of favor?

As the title indicates I was curious if anyone knew of such a book? Something like Last Stand of the Tin Can Warriors perspective, but of their traditional roles of convoy escorting? Or anything related? I'm all ears! TIA

1936 was when molotovs were made. Fire had been around for thousands of years. Alcohol had been around for thousands of years. Most people knew that alcohol could be lit on fire. Why did it take so long for a Molotov cocktail to be invented? Especially since whenever a new technology is made the first thing that happens is that it’s attempted to be weaponized.

How did the Japanese build such elegant castles during a time of such political fragmentation/small urban centers.

In early medieval Europe, when trade networks and cities began to disappear in the wake of the Western Roman Empire, it seemed like there was a regression of standard of living as wealth dropped and manors were largely self sufficient. In Japan, when the Ashikaga shogunate fell, it seemed like castle building still was able to incorporate a lot of elegant designs. And the standard of living didn’t seem to change much despite over 100 years of warring daimyo.

How were these castles constructed so well despite the small and hostile nature of the political units? Were materials locally sourced? merchants and castle builders allowed to travel freely?

Just wanted to ask a quick research question. Does anyone know anything about inheritance law in the abbasid caliphate specifically pertaining to women?  If not, can you suggest some good reference or research sites?

Sorry it's hard to pick a specific date because as a layperson "ancient history" encompasses such a broad time range. My question is whether any one of such ancient civilizations had a concept of ancient history. In particular, did any ancient civilizations attempt to preserve stories/writings from before their time? Were there any archaeological attempts to understand older civilizations or to look back into prehistory? Did ancient civilizations have a concept of historical fact outside of religious beliefs?

I was curious and checked the list of gunss used by germany uk usa etc and they all used massive cartridges compared to todays standards even though protection nowadays is way ahead of what was available back then.

Most of the guns that use(d) big cartridges are bolt action rifles or semi automatics but a lot of the german machine guns (like the MG42) used the same ammunition and had massive firepower.

I understand that is simple to use the same type of ammunition for a variety of guns but the cartridges got smaller over time until we got to the point of the 5.56NATO ammunition.

I also understand that recoil is reduced so gun control is better, however, the level of protection (bulletproof vests etc) went up, which seems like counterproductive.

I also have some ideas in mind why it could be like this:

The trade-off is simply worth it. Protection is good but 5.56NATO is enough to deal lot of damage to a target.

Globalization led to newer laws which (at least tried) to get implemented and since targets nowadays (in a war zone) should not get killed but incapacitated we now have guns that don't aim for high damage but for accuracy and "getting the job done"

I hope I am in the correct subreddit but, since I am interested in the history of guns, I think it should fit here.

Well before his Presidency, putting his superb organizational skills to work, Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration embarked on the largest humanitarian operation in history that spanned a million square miles of Russia.

This largely forgotten act of benevolence by the US potentially saved the lives of 10 million Russians and very likely prevented the collapse of the Soviet regime.

The Russians accepted the aid but were embarrassed by it and downplayed it, later even labeling the Americans (some 200 at any given time) that were involved with this effort as spies. After all, America was the largest capitalist and had several years earlier sent troops to fight the Russian Bolsheviks.

What I am attempting to understand is the policy motivations behind this colossal relief effort. Was it founded in anything more concrete that our sense of morality and humanitarian reasons?

I just recently became interested in Roman and Byzantine history and wanted to know how the East reacted to Rome’s fall. I know about Justinian’s campaign but wanted to know what the immediate reaction was.

The Javanese are the largest ethnicity in Indonesia, the capital is located on Java, both Sukarno and Suharto were Javanese, how did Malay become the official language and not Javanese?

When studying the topic of Power and the People in Britain, I often revise the 19th century transitional period of power amongst parliament and society, as it is the one I am still most uncertain with. Within this, I have discovered the term of ‘Rotten Boroughs’ I somewhat understand their geographical premise in relation to population, yet I do not see how they were seen then as a major political uncertainty with the representative system in that time period. What truly were they and what effect were they playing on society when it came to election, representation and democracy as a whole?

27 million Russians died. Compared to 400k Americans.

I know some Russian so I'd be open to something on that end as well. I'm sure they have plenty of films so if possible I'd like something a little more recent so I could get my hands on an HD version. English captions if possible!

Title says all. I was sitting in Spanish class one day when my teacher said that despite the amount of Latin used in English it is not a Romance language and is instead Germanic in origin. Why did Latin roots start being used in English and when? (Not for school or anything. Just curious)

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Definition of classicide I am using: Classicide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a social class through persecution and violence.