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    Leonard Bertram Naman Schapiro CBE (22 April 1908 in Glasgow – 2 November 1983 in London) was the leading British scholar of the origins and development...
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  • US Ambassador Boris Schapiro (1909–2002), British bridge player J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973), American historian Leonard Schapiro (1908–1983), British...
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    Советов рабочих и солдатских депутатов). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Leonard Schapiro, The Origin of the Communist Autocracy: Political Opposition in the...
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  • historical figures have seen the constitution as a propaganda document. Leonard Schapiro, for example, wrote in 1971: "The decision to alter the electoral system...
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    comparison with other organs of the Council of Ministers. British historian Leonard Schapiro, writes in his book The Government and Politics of the Soviet Union...
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    thoughts, and most intimate emotions. According to Turgenev's biographer Leonard Schapiro, the character of Gemma Roselli was inspired by an incident which took...
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    Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 417. Schapiro, Leonard (1982). Turgenev, His Life and Times. Harvard University Press. p...
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  • published in 2005. De Madariaga was married to the barrister and historian Leonard Schapiro from 15 March 1943 to 1976. There were no children of the marriage...
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    formal organs of authority, in both party and state." British academic Leonard Schapiro contended that "Stalin's style of rule was characterised by the way...
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    evolution of the Soviet political system after his death. Others, such as Leonard Schapiro, argue that the system itself evolved from an inner-party democratic...
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