I mean in the way the u.s.s.r had a centralized gov as in did Nazi germanys federal government have all power over provinces,territories and states? (No states rights)

Any resources would help, as well as an order of progression. I want to have an interest in certain time periods and then know where to go from there to learn it in-depth, which as of now, I don't have good enough general knowledge to do so. I thank you all in advance, and thanks for being here!

Probably a long shot here but I'm looking for any information about Yakutia and Sakha culture prior to the arrival of the Russians in the 17th century. Unfortunately any such resources would probably be in Russian which I don't speak; I do have google translate for that but it's finding materials in the first place that's the problem.

Thanks in advance!

I am struggling to find some of my ancestors even in the 1800s and I am wondering if it is because not all records are digitized?

How did communists react to the relatively fast collapse of the soviet union? Were there any narratives around its collapse undermining the communist ideology? Did it have any appreciable effects on communist movements only tangentially linked to the soviet union? Like a significant number of people becoming disillusioned with the ideology?

I'm aware that there are a diverse range of communist ideologies and some viewed the soviet union as legitimate and others not. I would compare this question to a similar one that's been answered on how Christians reacted to the fall of Constantinople.

I'm doing some research into ancient China, and I'm getting confused as to when the first dynasty of China is. From what I understand from my research, it either is the first 'event' after the prehistory ended, or it's still part of prehistory and it ends a couple of dynasties after.

So where do I put it under? Prehistoric China? Ancient China? Both? Neither?

Thanks in advance

In the HBO series, set in NYC in the early 1880s, one of the old money characters remarks that well brought up young women "aren't the girls lighting the cigars of their escorts at Delmonicos". This seems to imply that someone of good standing in high society (or at least a woman of good standing) wouldn't want to be seen there. And the show does imply that most of the wealthy families in New York had their own cooks and would regularly host others for meals at their homes.

But whenever I've read about Delmonicos during that period (the gilded age) it always comes across as being a prestigious fine dining restaurant that catered to the wealthy and powerful. Was there something about Delmonicos in particular that "old society" didn't like? Was it the kind of place where married men brought their mistresses? Or were private restaurants part of a broader cultural shift between old money and new money?

I want to participate in this subreddit, but EVERY TIME I post it gets deleted by the moderators for violating a BS "rule." Ridiculous.

I recently heard someone make the claim that humans have known that the Earth was not flat since at least Ancient Greece and that the Catholic church never said otherwise and never tried to suppress anyone for saying so

If the Nazis where white supremacists then why would they ally with people they saw as less than them? If the axis had won the war would they have betrayed Japan in the future? It seems like a weird partnership.

After Codreanu's death, Horia Sima was put in charge, and the legion split into two groups, the people who followed Codreanu's Ideology and the people that followed Horia Sima's Ideology, but what were the differences between them and why do some people consider Horia Sima a traitor?

As far as I know, markets were an important part of medieval towns, where towns would only be recognized as that if they had the right to hold a market. Why were markets important? Who organized them?

A friend of mine recently asked why the senators didn't just pay off Julius Caesar's bodyguards to kill him instead of putting themselves at risk by stabbing him themselves. This creates an interesting question - what made the lictors of the Roman Republic trustworthy?

According to Wikipedia, during the almost 500 years from the founding of the Roman Empire to the Western Roman Empire's fall, 13 Roman Emperors were murdered by the Praetorian Guard. Yet the Roman Republic existed for a similar (if not longer) amount of time, but not a single consul was murdered by the lictors (or perhaps the documentation is missing?). Even as the Republic grew increasingly corrupted, unstable and dictator-prone, the lictors didn't kill any of the consuls or dictators. What was the reason they were more loyal than the Praetorian Guard?

On a similar note, why did the Empire abandon the system of lictors if that system seemed to work better than the Praetorian Guard system they replaced it with?

For clarification under "knight" here I mean armoured warrior that fight on horse (at least expected did this).

As far I know, medieval knight need provide their own weapon, armour and other stuff. And they mostly take money for this from their manor/fief.

But how much income they need for this? Not even in actual money, but I more interesting about how much people need knight to have this income.

I read something about 20 pounds in year for one knight as lower line, but how much this actually? Did they need village on 100 households? Or like Novgorod, every ten households can realistically support one knight?

Thanks!

John of Damascus used to debate Muslims a lot, and he’s one of the first critics of “Ishmaelites” as he called them in Concerning Heresy (Perì eréseon). Besides him, is there anyone who mentioned or criticized Muhammad or Islam from that era (6th, 7th, or 8th century)?

Post-collapse, Sovtek’s Deluxe Big Muff PI pedal became a big-time favorite among some rock musicians. Their MIG-50 amplifier also has a very good rep.

Still, I’ve yet to hear much about the USSR’s musical instrument industry as a whole. I assume, due to Russia’s classical music tradition, it was mostly focused on instruments like the violin, piano, etc, but I might be wrong. I know that by the 80’s they had a very active rock’n roll scene, with bands like Kino being very popular to this day.

What was the musical instrument industry like in the USSR? How did people go around to buying instruments? Were Western brands available for them to purchase or was it limited to local brands only? Were they accessible to ordinary people, price-wise?

My focus is mostly electric instruments, like the guitar, but I’d love to hear everything you have to say about such a wide topic.

Thanks in advance!