Hackers cost governments, corporations, and even everyday people billions of dollars per year. You might ask, sure, there are those out there for profit, but what about the college student who was just doing it for fun? Whether it's for profit or fun, it's still theft. While, in some ca...

Russian Prison/Labor Camps Following the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Soviets dismantled the broad spy networks of the czarist secret police, the Okhrana, but the new government kept all essential functions of that organization in place, replacing the czari...

Speaking of a nation's national character' can be a rather dicey prospect, from the point of view of political correctness as in light of a responsible academic's fear of making hasty or uniformed sociological generalizations about a people or a country. However, the marked and noted dif...

The era of the 1950's presented a wave of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet, the 1956 revolution of Hungary is relatively unknown to the pages of modern history. Unlike the better known nations which fought against their Soviet-friendly governments, Hungary was left...

Revolutions in the past have occurred because of powerful dynamic leaders. The Russian Revolution implied complete and drastic change, but the revolutionaries were the people who tried to bring about such changes. Lenin and Stalin were influential revolutionary leaders that set up a new way of livin...

In the early 1950's Australia was rocked by the largest spy scandal in its history. In April 1954, a Soviet operative called Vladimir Petrov defected to Australia. His wife Evdokia followed him soon thereafter. It was an instant news sensation worldwide. What made it even more appealing as a ne...

Thermal Pollution: A Global Problem Recently, as a result of the increased energy demand, we've allowed our planet to begin overheating. With the introduction of more and more heated water into our lakes and rivers, and Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere we've managed to raise the temperature of ...

Society after the industrial era has become a service society. Its growth is greater than any other sector, accounting for about seventy-two percent of all US employment and forty-six percent of worldwide employment. Women make up the majority of all service occupations. The world's economic rest...

In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn attempts to indirectly attack/insult Stalin as well as the Union of Soviet Writers by using a comparative setting. He does this by making the setting as realistic as possible while injecting Shukhov, who plays as the "average" man being cheated...