The history of Russia began many centuries ago. Russia had many tsars, not all of them were as great as these people that I'm going to talk about. Russian history is amazing, because I was born there and I learned history from six to ninth grade there. You probably know that I already knew almo...

Modern History oral task.The word at the beginning of the 20th century - Russian Revolutions.Tsar Nicholas II Nicholas inherited the role of Tsar off his father in 1855, when his father Nicholas I passed away. Tsar Nicholas did not have the abilities to be a natural autocrat. He cons...

Many empires and nations throughout global history have been under the rule of absolute monarchs who follow the policies of absolutism. Absolutism is a political system in which a ruler has complete power. Many ancient nations, such as Spain, Russia and France, followed the policy of absolutism. Abs...

Russian Tsars Throughout the Russia's history, and as far back as civilization was accounted for, they had rulers known as Tsars. Tsars were perceived as absolute monarchs, which most held that title true. With the decline of the churches power, and the greed for power, the men who became Ru...

Causes of the Russian Revolution The Russian revolution was caused by the continual breakdown of the governments in Russia and the incompetency and authoritarian views of it's czars. Their failures as leaders included policies that neither pleased nor benefitted the people. By the end of the n...

At the time of World War One, Russia\'s czarist rulers had entered with good intentions to win land and gain knowledge in Eastern Europe. The czar not taking certain things into consideration felt the stresses of the war and had his czarist state destroyed after over 5 million casualties were kill...

In 1812 Czar Alexander the First had sworn an oath that Russia would never make peace as long as an enemy stood on Russian soil. Little did he know that not much more than a century later the enemy was those who were native to the Russian soil-the people. The Russian Revolution was an event t...

Life in Russia has always been different from what most of us know in the U.S. Life under monarchy in Russia had its ups and downs. It was ruled by a tsar, up until the Russian Revolution, when the government turned from monarchism to communism. With this new was of life the very existence of the Ru...

Russia has always played a major roll in global politics, economics and thought. However, in the past two centuries, Russia has had probably the greatest influence on the international world in modern times, surpassed only by the United States. The Russia that we've known this century though, has it...

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...

There is no doubt that Napoleon\'s life left a huge impact on Europe. People have called him \"The greatest man of action born in Europe since Julius Caesar\" (Winston Churchill). The campaign of 1812 was more frankly imperialistic than any other of Napoleon\'s wars; it was more directly dictated b...

Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the provisional government of Russia in 1917. Alexander Kerensky neglected the wishes of the Russian people as well as the power of the Bolshevik party and therefore put an end to democracy in Russia and allowed his government to be overthrown.In March 1917 discont...

The novel "Animal Farm," by the controversial author George Orwell, was written in the 1940's after World War II - three decades after the Russian revolution of 1917. It was first published in 1948 after being rejected several times. This critically acclaimed book begins during the reign of th...

Russia's participation in the First World War was not the main reason for the collapse of the tsarist system. It was merely the spark that ignited all the problems that had been brewing for some time under the tsarist regime. The strain of world war one, for which Russia was not prepared, the p...

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...

Animal FarmAll of the characters in Animal farm have counterparts in real life. This book was based on the Russian Revolution, and all the important populace of the revolution are symbolized. Some of the animals represent individuals in the Russian Revolution, and some types of animals represent dif...

Vladimir Lenin, a political leader of the Russian revolution was born on the 20th of April 1870, in the Russian town of Simbirisk. His real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He was the third child in a family of six. His father was a school inspector and they lived comfortably, They had a pleasant,...

The Imperial Period Romanov FamilyBefore Nickolia and his family were killed. The Romanov family did a lot of great thing for Russia as tzars or emperors. From Peter the great to nickolia. I'll start first with Peter the great, In 1695 he astablished the first Russian navy which was one of the be...

What is the significance of the 7 commandments? Do you think George Orwell has a message for his readers?Animal Farm, by the controversial author George Orwell, was written in the 1940's after the 2nd World War, 3 decades after the Russian revolution of 1917. It was first published in 1948 after bei...

The development of a particular region sometimes relies on the strength and intelligence of an individual. Throughout the years, many have proven themselves worthy of this exhausting task. When Peter Romanov was declared czar at age ten, he never could have guessed that one day, historians and...

Absolutism, political system in which there is no legal, customary, or moral limit on the government's power. The term is generally applied to political systems ruled by a single dictator, but it can also be applied to seemingly democratic systems that grant sweeping powers to the legislature or ex...

I am doing my project on World War I. The first World war began in 1914 and ended in 1919. I am going to study about different aspects of the war such as who was involved, how it all started, Canada's role, some of the major battles, and what it was like for all of the soldiers who fought in the ...

Video Paper # 1In this paper I will be comparing the rule of Peter the Great and Louis the XIV. I will also be telling you about the similarities and differences between the video's on the Sun King and Peter I. Information on the leaders "Homes" St. Petersburg and Versailles will also be included...

The Ruin of the Romanov RegencyThe Romanov family, a great and prestigious lineage, ruled over Russia from 1613 to 1917. Although it had, in the past, overcome all types of dilemmas, the Romanov family was to fall, at last, in 1917 with the resignation of Tsar Nicholas the Second.After the Russo-Jap...

Was Nicholas II responsible for his own downfall? Historians seem to think that Tsar Nicholas was responsible for his own downfall, though partially there was also the influence of others reasons in which he had no control over the situations and could not be held responsible for. The two...