- Bolshevik Revolution - Coup organized by Vladimir I. Lenin and
carried out by the Bolshevik radical group of the Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party to overthrow the Provisional Government
of Russia in November 1917. Also known as the - Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) - Official designation of the former
republics of the Soviet Union that remained loosely federated in
economic and security matters after the Soviet Union disbanded
as a unified state in 1991. Members in 1996 were Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,
Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. -
Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty - An agreement signed
in 1990 by members of the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO--q.v.) to establish parity in
conventional weapons between the two organizations from the
Atlantic to the Urals. Included a strict system of inspections
and information exchange. In 1995 Russia requested exemptions
for forces stationed in the C