Modern day knowledge of the early Russian history exists because of folk tales. In the developing Russian society between the years of 1100 A.D. and 1400 A.D., plagued by poverty, the Mongol invasion, and most importantly, illiteracy, keeping a written history of past events, obviously, was out of t...

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...

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 ...

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...

Russians are known for their drinking habits, and often, when I introduce myself as a Russian, the first response I get is, \"Oh, so you drink a lot of vodka!\" Vodka has played an important role throughout the history of Russia, deserving the status of the country\'s most popular alcoholic drink. ...

In world history, the Emancipation of the Russian Serfs is treated as though it had a huge effect on Russia and a large significance upon the rest of the world. This is not true, the impact of the Emancipation of the Serfs had a small effect on the history of the world. The Emancipation came in 1...

According to most historians, the term nationalism refers to the loyalty and devotion of persons or citizens to a particular nation through a sense of national consciousness that places one nation above all others. In addition, nationalism places a primary emphasis on the cultural aspects ...

"...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...

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 Arts play a large role in the expression of inner thoughts and beauty in life. From dance and music to painting, the concept of life is shown through the various ways in which we interpret it. The arts play a valued role in creating cultures and developing and documenting civilizations. Russia h...

There were two revolutions in Russia in 1917. One was in February in which the czarist regime was overthrown, and a republic was established led by the Duma. The communists overthrew the Duma and held elections. Lenin did not win the election but seized power anyway. This caused the civil in October...

Two Revolutions shaped the history of two countries: Mexico and Russia. Both Revolutions drastically changed the life of their people. I will compare and contrast both Revolutions. The Mexican Revolution happened in the year 1910. There were many dictators in Mexico. The president of Mexico at...

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 c...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Joseph Stalin lived from 1879 till 1953. Stalin was one of the most ruthless communist dictators of all time. After Lenin's death, Stalin pushed his way to the top and was set out to make the Soviet Union into an industrial power. In 1928, Stalin proposed the Five Year Plans, which were t...

The purpose of a revolution, as history has shown, is to fight some sort of political or social injustice suffered by a group of the general public. Typically a minority of the population, in search of a better lifestyle fights back against the oppression they have been forced to endure. His...

Chechnya is a small republic consisting of Muslims and is located in the Caucasus Mountains. Its population is 1.3 million which makes up 1% of the entire Russian Federation population, from which the republic is trying to secede. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, many territories declared inde...

Russian Geography and its affect on Society Russia is the biggest ruled territory in the world. From Kiev, and Moscow, down to Novosibirsk, and across to Vladivostok, its lands stretch far and wide. As a result of having such a massive piece of land, made it hard to keep up with the speed of ...

Russian Geography and its affect on Society Russia is the biggest ruled territory in the world. From Kiev, and Moscow, down to Novosibirsk, and across to Vladivostok, its lands stretch far and wide. As a result of having such a massive piece of land, made it hard to keep up with the speed of ...

Chechnya: A War that can't be won. History of the "independent Chechnya" continues on as a bloodsheding conflict that just can't seem to end. In the summer of 1991, the world learned that some loosely defined part of the Checheno-Ingushetia had seceded from ...

The life of an ant in the movie Antz, is very similar to that of a Russian citizen under Stalin's rule. Of course the economy of the ants is a command economy, and everyone has to work towards "the good of the colony". When Stalin came to power in Russia, Lenin had already introduced ...

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...