Alexander I of Russia

revolution in particular was power by the will of the unsatisfied people of Russian making the Russia revolution mass event. Of course in every revolution there are key players, leaders and spokesmen for the people that try to gather the majority support and be able to rule “for the good of the people.” The Russian revolution’s key players take the form of Nicholas Romanov II, Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Kerensky and each of them mark an event of the revolution and symbol of the mass…

Germany would go to war against Russia in August 1914, a Nation still underdeveloped with its economy and technology (RUSSIA IN WORLD WAR I, 2018), which would all lead to a major disadvantage that would cripple the empire. Peasant starved and froze, all while husbands were off to war through drafting, struggled to look after children…

extreme or complete change in the way people live work etc". During the World War 1 Russia witnessed the transition to a different and renewed that brought with itself some good and bad consequences; however it is necessary to analyze and understand each phase of the process in order to create a concept and a point of view. The Russian revolution has three main causes: political, social and economics. Political: Russia was being ruled by an absolute and despotic monarchy , where the will of…

are studied, taught and practiced by historians and generals. As the duke of ellington had once said when asked who was the greatest general “In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon.” Napoleon continues to inspire people today as his hero Alexander the Great had been to…

Liberalism is a worldview or a philosophy of politics that is developed on the ideas of equality and liberty. Liberals display an extensive set of views which is dependent on their comprehension of these principles, and normally they support programs and ideas like freedom of the press, freedom of speech, civil rights, free markets, freedom of worship, gender equality, secular governments as well as international cooperation. Initially, liberalism became a known political movement during the…

they belonged to their masters, who could buy and sell them like cattle. They demanded the abolishment of serfdom and feudal dues. The inefficiency of peasant-based agriculture was one of the chief indications of "backwardness" in pre-revolutionary Russia and a problem that the Bolsheviks, upon coming to power, were dedicated to overcoming. The Provisional Government had failed to address the land issue and because of that, “Most Russian peasants, numbering some twenty- three million, were…

Q6: I think the one thing that was mainly different about the South American Revolution and the Mexican Revolution was that in the South American Revolution, the peninsulares and the Creoles were the leaders in the army for South America. In the Spanish Revolution, the lower class people were the leaders in the armies. In the Spanish government they had different social classes. At the top of the Spanish-American government and Society where the peninsulares who are people that had been…

Russia was forced to face a mass of alterations during the reign of Alexander II - economic growth, industrialization, the Crimean and Russo-Turkish wars, peasant uprisings, and, most importantly, Alexander II's Great Reforms, which culminated with the emancipation of the serfs. All of these changes contributed to an upheaval of the social structure that Russia had been operating by for centuries. There has always been an imbalance of power between the masses (peasants, serfs) and the gentry,…

On June 22,1941 Germany launched an attack on the Soviet Union called operation Barbarossa. It was called Barbarossa in honer of German ruler Fredrick I. Fredrick I had orchestrated a ruthless attack on the Slavic (The Defeat of Hitler). The reason why Germany wanted to seize Soviet union for its prime land for long-term German settlement. Germany was at its strongest at its time with hundred fifty divisions, and three thousand tanks (Williamson Murray). Hitler then ordered a blitzkrieg but…

communism and atheism in Russia in the 20th century started off tempestuous (Thesis). Atheism also doesn’t guarantee good behavior any more than religion does, and “Absolute power corrupts absolutely” became a tragically apt phrase in the 20th century (www.dummies.com). Atheism does not come in a certain form nor with a certain belief, but the theory of atheism seemed to come hand in hand with the communist during some of the hardest of times in Russia in the 20th century. Russia was filled with…