Battle of Stalingrad By David Rorex, Daniel Robbins, Anthony Yarbrough, and Ian Gelig In the early month of 1942, Germany broke its non-aggression pact with Russia and Hitler ordered his army to sweep east to Stalingrad, and south to Astrakan, Grozny, and to the Caspian Sea. The large military off...

Joseph Stalin was a Georgian Marxist revolutionary leader and later dictator of the USSR. He was born in Gori, Georgia. He studied at Tiflis Orthodox where he was expelled from in 1899. After joining a Georgian Social Democratic organization in 1898, he became active in a revolutionary undergroun...

How does violence in books, newspapers and television influence spectators and readers? In our time there is more and more violence that we read about and watch on TV. It surrounds us everywhere. In this article I will try to show different kinds of violence in the media that provokes aggression ...

The outbreak of war in Europe in 1854, the Crimean War, broke up the cooperation Europe, led by four powers-Russia, Britain, Austria, and Prussia-tried to maintain, solidify, and improve after the Napoleonic Wars. Even worse, into two separate hostile groups: mainly the west with France and Britain,...

AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE COLD WAR The role of America at the end of World War II was where the origins of policing the world originate. America had been engaged in a very costly war in terms of dollars as well as lives. But, despite the expense the United States came out of World War II be...

Nuclear non-proliferation, arms limitation, arms control, deterrence, international security, de-militarization ...civilian and government agencies alike have wrestled with how to define and resolve issues of possession and use of nuclear weapons. The issues involve power struggles over which nation...

The origins of the Cold War were, some say, a battle of ideological governments (communism vs. capitalism). However, I believe the origins of the Cold war are set between two superpowers, both struggling for control of the world. During WW2, the U.S.A. and Russia were teamed together to fight agai...

The Black Hundred was an extreme right wing party which emerged at the turn of the twentieth century in Russia. Favoring tsarism and autocracy instead of a parliamentary government, the Black Hundred were the perpetrators of many Jewish pogroms in Russian cities such as Odessa, Kiev, Yekaterinoslav...

Both USA and USSR contributed to the slow evolvement of the Cold War, although I would accuse the USSR of being the more responsible of the two parties. Stalin's initial paranoid suspicions of the West gave him the need to cripple Germany to feel protected against future threats, and I believe that...

Developing Modern States Successful modern states developed a monopoly over the lawmaking process, the armed forces, and the bureaucracy to meet the needs of the state. In order to have a successful modern state they first needed a powerful ruler. Fredrick the Great of Prussia used his power a...

"...But some are more equal than others..." Ever since Animal Farm by George Orwell was first published in 1945, a small, subconscious voice has uttered this phrase to urge the rethinking of equality. This closing thought and the events of Animal Farm closely parallel the history of the R...

While the rest of Europe was advancing culturally as a direct result of the Renaissance, Russia did not reap the same benefits of cultural development. The Mongol occupation in Russia was responsible for the disproportionate growth; because of the ongoing Mongol supression, Russians were not able to...

War: Why wars occur Most wars result from a combination of causes. Three of the most common causes are conflicts over resources, clashing ideologies, and struggles over power. Conflicts over resources are the most basic and enduring causes of war. Resources include land, minerals, energy sou...

The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies The author was dealing with the persecution of the Gypsies during the time of the Nazis. The book first started off with the basic hatred and prejudice that the people had against the Gypsies. The author talked about how people thought that the Gypsies we...

World War I: Total War The World War I is not the only name given to this tremendously long and forceful war. The other name is the Total War. It all began in the first days of August 1914. Emperor William II reassured the Germans that it would be a short war. But to his dismay, the "Total War", w...

Destructive Electromagnetism Introduction Electromagnetism exists everywhere. When people drive, walk, or even go to the beach. However, due to the extreme complexity of the topic, electromagnetism has proven to be a subject studied by those who are crafty and willing enough to explore the ...

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, more popularly known as Lenin, is arguably the greatest leader in Russian and Soviet Union History. Lenin inspired and led the Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution of 1917, and was the architect and first head of the recently dismantled United Soviet Socialist Republi...

As a result of privatization in Russia, tens of thousands of state-owned enterprises - from small retail shops to major industrial enterprises - have been transformed into privately owned companies. Millions of Russian citizens became owners. The privatization is guided by the special governmen...

For thousands of years, since the time of the Egyptians, there has been an ongoing quest for beauty-a quest which hasn't ended yet, and at the rate it's going, it is a quest which will probably not end at all. This assumption is based on the sudden and noticeable increase in demand for bea...

Imagery is defined as sensory details that provide vividness and immediacy in a literary work by arousing in readers a complex of emotional associations. Figurative language is a non-literal way to express a suitable relationship between essentially unlike things. Tone is an author's attitude...

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...

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 bei...

Each of us knows today a lot about America. There is no other country, which would have the same degree of popularity. It is due to the fact that America is seen as a country of successful, dynamic, popular and rich people. It is so, but, to my mind, it means nothing. A wealthy country should also h...

Both A Man for all Seasons and Reds were aimed at Hollywood audiences and meant to appeal; to the general public, they include elements of character that are intended to please the audience (after all they needed to make money to pay for their making – an estimated 45 million dollars in Red&ap...

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ) In the year nineteen hundred, the center of world power inarguably resided in Eur...