It was Woodrow Wilson who said "There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed". This remark is not referring to communism but the principals can be associated with one another. The Communist ideals of the Russian revolution; moreover, t...

The Russian Revolution was one of the great events of the twentieth century. The revolution of February 1917 brought Russia the first democratic regime. During the 1917 Russian revolution there were two distinct periods. These periods were known as the critical period from 1917-1921 and the consolid...

The purpose of the Russian Revolution was to fix problems created by Czar Nicholas II. The purpose of the Animal Farm Revolution was to make life better for all the animals. However, both revolutions made life worse afterwards. All the characters in Animal Farm have counterparts in real life. This b...

Joseph Stalin When most people see or hear the name Joseph Stalin, they most commonly associate it with a violent and ruthless political leader of the Soviet Union who managed to send more Russians to their deaths than Hitler did Jews. Aside from this fact, most individuals know very little about...

The only successful attempt to conquer Russia was by the Mongolian army under the leadership of the great Genghis Khan in the 1200s. Many other historical figures have tried to repeat his accomplishments, which somehow eventually led to their downfall. Adolf Hitler was the most recent to try to dupl...

Until 1917, Russia had been governed by a monarchy, which controlled the land for over 300 years. This was an autocratic government where the Czar was powerful, unchallenged, and never questioned. Until 1905, Russia did not have political parties of elections. Either the czar or the appointed minist...

Imperial Russia declined for a few reasons. It started in the year of 1721 and went until 1917. Before Russia's Imperial Age began, 2 main events took place. The first was the Golden Horde. The Mongols rode all across Asia to find themselves on a great, flat plain, the location of Russia at the time...

Nicholas II held, evidently, the greatest responsibility for the collapse of the Romanov Empire in 1917, but not entirely. His main offence was himself, the fact that he was not suited for the position of tsar. However, many occurrences, such as Bloody Sunday, the damaging influence of Rasputin, his...

Assess the reasons for the success of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Concepts that should be considered include Industrialization, modernization and nationalism.Many contributing factors led the success of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War between 1941 to 1945. A ...

Joseph Stalin has had a great effect on Russia. From his early life in the Georgian seminary we will see why he entered the seminary, and how this contributed to his activities and how his life progresses through the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, to when he was dictator. When he was a full rev...

Stalin did not demonstrate truly wise and honourable leadership of his country, and it was only because of the unstable nature of Europe at this time that the people of Russia trusted and put their faith in him. Stalin was the son of an alcoholic cobbler and a washerwoman, and was all too aware of t...

There were no prospects for democracy in Russian in 1914. Tsar Nicholas II believed he had the god-given right to rule over his country absolutely. His power to govern was reinforced by the strongest institutions in Russia, The Orthodox Church, The Army, and the peasant class. Even the Tsar's o...

Many historians argue that when studying Russian history it is important to look closely at events to know what actually happened. Since Soviets claim that their government legitimacy comes from a historical process, their files were never opened or exposed to the public, therefore not enabling soci...

Czar Nicholas vs. Mr. JonesThe book Animal Farm by George Orwell was written in comparison to the way that the Russian revolution had taken place. The main idea of the book was that the petite bourgeoisie's (the middle class people) were the ones who took advantage of the revo...

The civil strife and chaos that tore Russia limb from limb in the early 20th Century, although brutally devastating, did not hail the end of the stability and power that had characterized the massive country for so much of history. The continuing strength of what was now the Soviet Union lay in the...

Nicholas and Alexandra is a biographical film depicting the tragic tale of the fall of the last members of the Romanov dynasty. The film was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and Released in 1971. Schaffner lets us take a look in to the glamorous and majestic lives of the Romanov family; while at th...

The Space Race The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialists Republic, now known as Russia) and the United States had been disagreeing on things since 1917. When World War ** ended in 1945, the Cold War began. The Cold War was not an actual war, but more like a competition over military leadership (or...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "No one nowadays has any reason to doubt the enormous significance of the events connected with the name Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, though for some people these amounted to a catastrophe, or the beginnings of one, whereas for others they created the hope that a new and just socie...

Essay Question:Examine the degree in which there was a period of economic, social and political consolidation following the critical revolutionary period.During the period of 1921-1928 in Russia, following the critical revolutionary period, there was a large degree of economic, social and political ...

George Orwell was chiefly interested in justice and equality. He was a deeply pessimistic man who had powers of imagination which few of his contemporaries dreamed one man could have. Orwell's character and writing style was so deep that qualities that were and still are manifest in his work, did n...

"Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup d'etat gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today's Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians -- the only empire that survived into the mid 1980's" (Luttwak, 1). In their Comm...

Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today's Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians -- the only empire that survived into the mid 1980'sÓ (Luttwak, 1). In their Communist Manife...

THE LINK BETWEEN ECONOMICS,SECURITY AND STABILITYIN THE AzerbaijanToday we are discussing very important issues concerning the link betweeneconomics, security and stability. Here the main question is howsecurity and stability can provide economic development and how economicdevelopment can promote ...

The Views of the Man Who Ended the Cold WarJ R Book CritiqueA Review of:Gail Sheehy. The Man Who Changed the World- The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. New York, NY. 1990.Mikhail Gorbachev. Perestroika- New Thinking for Our Country and the World.New York, NY. 1987. The two books that I am crit...

The Views of the Man Who Ended the Cold War Book CritiqueA Review of:Gail Sheehy. The Man Who Changed the World- The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. New York, NY. 1990.Mikhail Gorbachev. Perestroika- New Thinking for Our Country and the World.New York, NY. 1987. The two books that I am critiqu...