The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October.

The French invasion of Russia at the height of Napoleon's power in 1812 failed miserably as the obstinate resistance in combination with the bitterly cold Russian Winter led to a disastrous defeat of invaders, in which more than 95 % of the pan-European Grande Armée perished.

On the other hand, it is not too much to say that, from the end of 1759 to the end of 1761, the unshakable firmness of the Russian Empress was the one constraining political force which held together the heterogeneous, incessantly jarring elements of the anti-Prussian combination.

( a game based on the Prisoner's Dilemma ), Russian Roulette, WinTuition, Cram, National Lampoon's Funny Money, and Lingo ( a Chuck Woolery-hosted revival of the 1987-1988 Canadian format in which teams guess five-letter words in a combination of Jotto / Mastermind and bingo ).

The onion dome became another distinctive feature in the Russian architecture, often in combination with the tented roof.

Nicholson wrote as " Harry Steel ", a combination of the names of Stalin (" man of steel " in Russian ) and Harry Pollitt.

Most historians ascribe the retreat to some combination of the following factors: the highly defensible French position together with the rapidly growing numbers of reinforcements and citizen volunteers with their discouraging and thoroughly unexpected élan persuaded the cautious Brunswick to spare himself a dangerous loss of manpower, particularly when the Russian invasion of Poland had already raised concerns for Prussia's defensibility in the east.

The usual combination is English, French and Latin ; sometimes French can be swapped with another foreign language ( like Italian, Spanish or Russian ).

Unlike the " long telegram ", Kennan's well-timed article appearing in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs under the pseudonym " X ," entitled " The Sources of Soviet Conduct ," did not begin by emphasizing " traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity "; instead it asserted that Stalin's policy was shaped by a combination of Marxist – Leninist ideology, which advocated revolution to defeat the capitalist forces in the outside world and Stalin's determination to use the notion of " capitalist encirclement " as a fig leaf legitimizing his regimentation of Soviet society so that he could consolidate his political power.

The combination of the Russian revolutionary sweep with American efficiency is the essence of Leninism.

In Russian cuisine, the most common type of dumplings is pelmeni, which are usually filled with meat, traditionally with a combination of pork, beef and mutton ( or game meat ).

* treating digraph < оу > as a single character rather than two letters ( for example, in letter-spacing or in combination with diacritical marks: in Russian editions, they are placed above < у >, not between < о > and < у >; also, when the first letter of a word is printed in different color, it is applied to < о > in Russian editions and to the entire < оу > in Serbian and Ukrainian ).

Russia fell below the ineligibility limit for DV-2010 due to a combination of a sharp dropoff in adoptions ( from 5, 878 in 2004 to 2, 301 in 2007 ) and the unusual bureaucratic quirk of large numbers of Russian immigrants being allocated to " Soviet Union ( former )" rather than Russia in 2006 and 2007.

In the days before the British debate, the Dutch had offered to negotiate between Russia and the Triple Alliance, and Auckland reported that he saw documents in which Frederick Wilhelm questioned the need for the war and expressed concerns over the militant Austrian attitude ( according to Polish historian Jerzy Łojek, that was either Auckland's own or Russian misinformation, or a combination of both ).

In the 1970s, a helmet / cage combination became popular, which was popularized by Vladislav Tretiak, the noted Russian goaltender who competed against Canada in the 1972 Summit Series.

Traditional Finnish cuisine is a combination of European, Fennoscandian and Western Russian elements ; table manners are European.

The trapezoidal building features an interesting combination of elements of Russian medieval architecture and a steel framework and glass roof, a similar style to the great 19th century train stations of London.

The European orphan status vaccine and Russian approved vaccine / drug Oncophage, now renamed " vitespen ", are currently used at the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco, which has begun enrolling patients into a Phase 2 clinical trials in combination with the standard of care — radiation therapy plus temozolomide — for newly diagnosed glioma patients.

Cath opens the jewel by the virtue of the Russian fairytale he found in Tyler's luggage, referencing various locations on the world, forming some sort of combination.

The Soviet Union and later Russian Federation experimented with binary weapons capable of mixing and distributing two agents that would work together in worsening the effects of the weapon, an example of which would be the combination of nerve agents with blister agents.

* “ A combination of brilliant wit and a profound sense of drama, delicate thought and powerful construction, a brave, at times even a bold type of experiment and the constancy of the Russian national tradition, multiply enhanced by the greatest compositional technique – this has always fascinated and continues to fascinate me in Rodion Shchedrin ’ s musical output .” Mikhail Pletnyov

Although translated into English as a " residential permit ", in Russian this combination of words also conveys a presence of a right of a resident to live somewhere.

The excesses of this ideology in Germany are a matter exclusively of the Germans, ... while Russian fascism is a combination of natural national conservatism with a passionate desire for true changes .".

A combination of Russian red tape, defective workmanship, and theft resulted in what was built being less than originally planned.

Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

The governments may be based on heredity, religion, military power, work projects ( such as canal building ), food distribution, land ownership, agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, finance, or a combination of those.

A combination of military conservatism in almost all armies and post-war financial constraints prevented the lessons of 1914-18 being acted on immediately.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

The development of BIND 9 took place under a combination of commercial and military contracts.

At any rate, the Anglo-Saxons, including Saxonified Britons, progressively spread into England, by a combination of military conquest and cultural assimilation, until by the eighth century some kind of England really had emerged.

The seemingly certain disaster was averted in August by the combination of Piłsudski's military skills and a dedicated national defense effort.

Europe ’ s expansion into territorial imperialism had much to do with the great economic benefit from collecting resources from colonies, in combination with assuming political control often by military means.

Due to a combination of surprise, superior military forces, and a poorly armed South Korean army, the Northern forces quickly captured Seoul and Syngman Rhee and his government was forced to flee further south.

Their stage routines were a loose combination of martial arts, military drill and " step show " dances lifted from black college fraternities.

Of course, Draper notes that Falstaff is also something of a boastful military man, but notes, “ Falstaff is so complex a character that he may well be, in effect, a combination of interlocking types .”

Switzerland remained independent and neutral through a combination of military deterrence, economic concessions to Germany, and good fortune as larger events during the war delayed an invasion.

German military Enigma was first broken in December 1932 by the Polish Cipher Bureau, using a combination of brilliant mathematics, the services of a spy in the German office responsible for administering encrypted communications, and a slice of good luck.

There is no consensus on the function of the nuraghes: they could have been religious temples, ordinary dwellings, rulers ' residences, military strongholds, meeting halls, or a combination of the former.

The ponlop were combination tax collectors, judges, military commanders, and procurement agents for the central government.

Weakened by costly and disastrous military campaigns against Goguryeo ( in modern day Korea ) which ended with the defeat of Sui in the early seventh century, the dynasty disintegrated through a combination of popular revolts, disloyalty, and assassination.

This rule has been challenged, however, by military development of thermobaric weapons, which employ a combination of negative shock wave effects and extreme temperature to incinerate objects within the blast radius.

Andrianampoinimerina, grandson of King Andriambelomasina and successor to his uncle King Andrianjafy, successfully reunited the fragmented Merina kingdom through a combination of diplomacy, strategic political marriages and successful military campaigns against rival princes.

In January 2006, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 11 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia were in danger of starvation due to the combination of severe drought and military conflicts.

The empire extended its power by a combination of trade and military conquest.

Moreover, German military authorities continued to promote the idea of outreaching one's opponent on the battlefield by means of a longer rifle / bayonet combination, a concept prominently featured in its infantry bayonet training doctrines.

A combination of Soviet military successes and American economic pressure forced the Japanese to withdraw from the area, however, and Outer Manchuria returned to Soviet control by 1925.

After his return to power in 1911, however, he seemed willing to sacrifice his legacy of military reform for imperial ambitions, and instead ruled by a combination of violence and bribery that destroyed the idealism of the early Republican movement.

The combination of political and economic pressure eventually led the Swedish government to restrict German military traffic through the country and halt the supply of bearings.

Military tactics, the science and art of organizing a military force, are the techniques for using weapons or military units in combination for engaging and defeating an enemy in battle.