Recently, the president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, has been extremely ill. Because of this, other government officials must take a greater role and have greater responsibility than they already have. One such government officials that has a had greatly expanded role is Prime Minister Yevgeni Prim...

During the reign of Czar Nicholas II (1884-1917), Russia went through a series of bad harvests that caused starvation among the peasants. As industrialization increased, discontent also grew among the middle class and proletarians (workers) in the cities. As a result, Russians found themselv...