Please answer some questions about the educational systems in the countries of CIS (exept for Russia)?
Alex N asked the question: Please tell about Ukraine, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan,
1) Are the universities private or owned by state?
2) What kind of degrees are there (bachelour, doctor, magister) and how many years do students study (4, 5 or 6)
3) What kind of grading system [...]
How did Vladimir Lenin actually unite all the smaller republics into the U.S.S.R?
T.J. asked the question: I am reading about Marxism-Leninism and one of the key differences between Marxism and Leninism is that Lenin believed that the proletarian revolution could only happen in undeveloped countries that would unite to form a huge Communist entity. But how exactly did Lenin unite all the smaller republics into the Soviet [...]