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Novocherkassk (nô'vəchĭrkäsk`), city (1989 pop. 188,000), SE European Russia, on the Aksai River (the right tributary of the Don). It manufactures locomotives, machine tools, mining and building equipment, and chemicals. Founded in 1805, it remained the administrative center of the Don Cossacks until 1920. Novocherkassk was the site of the hetman's palace and has a Don Cossack historical museum. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But surely any catalogue of communism should include a thorough account of the stultifying decades of the Soviet Union after 1953: the persecution of dissidents; the oppression of workers (such as the shooting of dozens of protestors in the city of Novocherkassk in June 1962, which is not mentioned); and the reckless and near-suicidal nuclear arms race with the West. Kolomeitsev received his doctorate from the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute in Russia, and brings with him 20 years of research and development experience with next-generation electric motors and drives. The army in fact was never used for the purpose of domestic repression under Brezhnev, in part because the only post-Stalinist use of the military for that purpose - at Novocherkassk in 1962, when soldiers fired on protesting workers - had been so bitterly unpopular with the armed forces that it had seriously alarmed the regime. |
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