BOOK 1. UNMASKING THE HIDDEN. N. LEVASHOV'S «SVETL BROOM» IN A. KHATYBOV'S «BATH SCHOOL» AND A LABOUR SPADE.

Book 1. Unmasking the Hidden. Content 392 1875 Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria. 1877- 1878 Russian-Turkish war. The San Stefan world. Queen Victoria becomes empress of India. 1878 Berlin Congress. The beginning of the thirty-six-year-long "armed peace" in Europe. 1881 The Battle of Majuba Hill. The Free Republic of the Transvaal. 1882 Charles Darwin died. 1883 British occupation of Egypt. Karl Marx died. 1886 The first bill on Irish self-government Gladstone 1888 Friedrich III (March), Wilhelm II (June) – the emperors of Germany 1890 Bismarck's resignation. The island of Helgoland is ceded to Germany. 1894- 1895 Japan-China War. 1895 The "Unionist" (imperialist) government in Britain. 1896 The Battle of Adua. 1898 Conflict between England and France because of Fashoda. Germany acquires Qingdao. 1899 The beginning of the Boer War. 1900 The uprising of the "boxers" in China. 1904 Britain invades Tibet. 1904- 1905 Japan-China War. 1906 The imperialist party in the British parliament was "defeated" by the liberals on the issue of tariff policy. 1907 The formation of the South African Union. 1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina 1909 M. Brélio flies on an airplane from France to England. 1911 Italy unleashes a war with Turkey and captures Tripoli. 1912 China becomes a republic. The Balkan Union begins a war with Turkey. 1913 The bloodshed in Londonderry in Ireland, caused by the illegal supply of arms by "Unionists". 1914 The beginning of the world war in Europe. 1917 Two revolutions in Russia. Establishment of the Bolshevik regime. 1918 The truce (November). 1919- 1920 Versailles Peace Treaty. Paris Peace Conference. 1919 The British leave Arkhangelsk. Denikin is defeated. Yudenich almost captures Petrograd and is defeated. The German fleet is sunk by German officers instead of being handed over to the British. 1920 First Congress of the League of Nations; Germany, Austria, Russia and Turkey are excluded. The United States does not send a representative. Kolchak is defeated by the Bolsheviks and shot. Poland is attacking Russia; the offensive of Wrangel in the south is stopped. 1921 Constantinople under the control of the Allies. The Conference on Naval Disarmament in Washington, chaired by President Harding. 1922 Great famine in Russia. At the Congress of the League of Nations in Geneva, there are Germans and Russians. The growing mess in Germany's finances and the impossibility of paying a military debt. Defeat of the Greek military in Asia Minor. Separation of Southern Ireland from Great Britain. 1923 French occupation of the Ruhr area and currency crash in Germany. The introduction of a rentmark. The UK is restoring the pre-war gold standard.