Enemy at the Gates Inspired by a true story, Enemy at The Gates, is set in Stalingrad, Russia in the Fall of 1942 during the height of the second world war. The story opens aboard a rail car where soldiers are herded in like cattle to be taken to the battlegrounds in Stalingrad. Soldiers are p...

Enemy at the Gate The Enemy at the Gates takes the story of a young Russian soldier who was catapulted into history because of his heroism during the World War II battle at Stalingrad. Vasili Zaitzev was a true to life person who learned at a young age of being a sharpsho...

The civil war that took place in Russia during the early 1900's was one that not only involved Russia, but many other countries that had specific interests in the war. One of the countries to with specific personal interests was the United States of America. In order to act upon the desires of ...

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...

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 ...

"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 thei...

Folklores are tales shrouded in mystery and mysticism, often depicting a time and an era long since dead, but there is a story of a man, not to long ago which entertains all the traits of a tall tale. Nobody in recent Russian history commands as much villainy, sainthood and mystery as the char...