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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
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| In an attempt to bolster patriotism, the Russian Orthodox Church was allowed to elect a patriarch, Sergius. The last patriarch, Tikhon, had died in 1925, and the Church had been forbidden to elect anyone in his place. | 1 |
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| The Third International was dissolved. Moscow announced that Communist parties in other countries would be autonomous henceforth. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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