Americans have always wanted the "best" of things. Brand new cars, big houses, and flashy clothes have historically been an American way of life. Even in the face of extreme hardships, Americans being Americans, go to extreme measures to preserve their way of life. Of course, we Americans have our...

The origins of the East-West conflict stems from multiple events. This tension brewed into a bitter and long conflict known as the Cold War. The struggle for dominance and world power was masked with differences in ideas of political, social and economic ways of life. At the climax of the Cold Wa...

The Cold War was the time period from 1945 to 1990 where there was constant tension and struggle between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. Actual military conflict never occurred, but there were great amounts of hostility and rivalry between the two sides, as wel...

The Cold War was the period from 1945 to 1990 where there was constant tension and struggle between the United States, its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies. Actual military conflict never occurred, but there were great amounts of hostility and rivalry between the two sides and intense cla...

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...

communist government. Communism depends on all members of society to work together to achieve one common goal. Because of this, communism tends to be more successful in societies that are small and homogeneous. Party leaders are able to control smaller groups of people with a common background wi...

TONY KUSHNER Tony Kushner was born in New York City, Manhattan, New York in 1956. He was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Both of his parents were musicians, and they encouraged him to follow his dreams seeing that he took interest in theatre at a young age. He's Jewish and practic...

How and why did the Cold War end? The period of the Cold war was a very awkward time. Nobody really knew what was going to happen. Some were frightened and some didn't even pay attention to it. Communist and democratic relations in the late 1980s were not going too well. The United States a...

The Communist World and the Free World were two kinds of economic and political camps existing in 1985. At the center of these camps were two nations, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics who followed the principals of communism, and the United States of America with the belief in Capitalism and...

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 d...

One of the greatest political leaders of the Russian revolution was born on April 22nd, 1870, in the town of Simbirisk in Russia. His name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. He was the third child in a family of six. His father was a school inspector and his mother was a very well kn...

The history of Communism started with one man Vladimir Ilich Lenin. Communism is a system of government in which resources and production facilities are the property of the entire society rather than individuals. In a communist society, Labor is shared equally and the benefits of labor are distribut...

Hitler We all know Hitler was a powerful leader and discriminated against the Jewish, but there were other things that people never knew about him. He never had a sense of belonging, and now being the most powerful man in Germany, he was in control. Shortly after Hitler's trial for...

From the late 1920's, Russian society entered nearly a decade of darkness, in which the government and the people were commanded by paranoia, fear, and terror. Under the newly introduced leader Joseph Stalin, soviet life was subject to greater control and manipulation as Stalin focused upon gaining...

America has been in its share of conflicts throughout history, but none have been as close to disaster as the Cuban missile crisis. The United States was on the verge of invading Cuba where the Soviet Union was ready to defend themselves with nuclear weapons. The United States was well ahead of the ...

Intelligentsia or Intelligentsiac? The Intelligentsia within Russia began as early as December 14, 1825 when the Decembrists were put down at the hands of loyalist troops commanded by Nicholas I. From the tragedy that befell the Decembrists, a movement would spring forth that would strive for...

party, but only fourteen achieved their goal, including Gorbachev. He had a passion for the Communist Party, and he would not let his family get in the way of his work in the Communist party. For example, Gorbachev saw that some of his friends parents were a political disgrace and he called for the...

From the year 1968 to the present there were many events which either traumatized the world or provided a stepping stone for the different areas of success. Technology vastly affected and promoted the competition of the two most diverse systems in the world. Better known as the cold war, the c...

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...

The first things that come to mind when the names Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler are mentioned are the cruel, tyrannical, inhumane acts they committed against their own people, and people of other nationalities. But, what one fails to see is the public works they sponsored, the ways they modernized t...

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...

Russia Under Stalin When Lenin's reign over the Soviet Empire ended in 1924, the future course of Communist policies and dominance of the party were cast into uncertainty. This insecurity in the Soviet nation was even further intensified by the rocky period of transition and the shaky events sur...

Back in the year of nineteen-forty-five, the allied nations of Canada, Britain, the United States of America, the Soviet Union and the British Commonwealth defeated the fascist government of Nazi Germany, ending nearly 6 years of war and ending the tyrannical reign of Adolph Hitler. It was a victo...

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...

According to a survey performed for the Defense Department in 1996, it was found that the majority of U.S. citizens believe that the government withholds too much information by classifying it as a secret. In this book, "Secrecy: The American Experience", Senator Daniel P. Moynihan rei...