Alexander I of Russia

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, also known as Peter I. Tchaikovsky, was a well known Russian composer who wrote classical pieces of music. Tchaikovsky was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Vyatka, Russia on May 7, 1840, to Alexandra and Ilya. Pyotr’s father, Ilya, was a mine inspector and metal works manager while Alexandra, Tchaikovsky’s mother, played music which is probably what influenced Pyotr to have such a passion for music. He was the second child out of six living children. When he was five,…

Nationalism Essay Nationalism is the sense of loyalty to one’s nation — has been widespread throughout history. Prior to the 19th century, nationalism was seen in Dynasties in China, The Maurya and Gupta Empire. Nationalism first developed in Europe. Europe nations were already industrialized. In size of the world was shrinking in the 19th century. Nationalism spread by the certain commonalities, like common language, common history, common culture, common religion and common ethnicity.…

way or another about a group or nation. World War I started on July 28, 1914 with a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. The Austrian-Hungarian Emperor was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist group called The Black Hand on June 28, 1914 which pitted Austria-Hungary against Serbia, beginning the tensions that eventually erupted in the first World War which lasted for four years and eventually included the allies; Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States, and the Central…

cases it even led to death. Lenin’s response in aiding the economic situation was to implement his “New Economic Policy”. Although Lenin’s ideologies truly lied in communism, he was willing to leave his ideologies behind for the good of Communist Russia. The New Economic Policy was more of a capitalist policy as it allowed for some private ownership of small businesses and it reformed agricultural policies (Wood,5,5). Leonid Brezhnev was a communist…

This essay will examine the strategic, operational, and tactical ramifications of the 1813 Battle of Leipzig, one of the pivotal battles of the Napoleonic Wars. Also referred to as the Battle of Nations, the Battle of Leipzig took place from October 16th to October 19th in 1813, and should not be confused with the Battle of Leipzig that took place during the Thirty Year’s War in the 17th Century. The intent of this paper is to assess the overarching themes of the battle, and not to provide a…

A man named Tsar Nicholas II focused on the army and bureaucracy in order to maintain his regime. Once World War I started it made Russia’s problems much more noticeable and these problems challenged the tsarist government. Tsar had qualities of a leader and that really promoted the necessary amount of patriotic enthusiasm. Russian industry was able to start pumping…

playwrights were his inspiration. Chekhov excelled in creating complex characterization of women. He possessed a multifaceted distinctiveness with a range of themes and subjects, voice and style. His plays combine popular appeal with credibility Russia produced literature and actors of its own towards the end of the nineteenth century. Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, Stanislavskh and Danchenko contributed to the development of realism on the Russian stage. Chekhov's plays gave them ample scope for…

The second World War was the biggest war in human history. The war started in 1939 and lasted until 1945 when the United Nations won the war. There are over 60 million people who died in this war, including many civilians. Those civilians died from bombings, diseases and tests for chemical weapons. This is insane! There were many events that happened during the Second World War, most of them were bombings, like the Pearl Harbor incident. Many of the wars were instigated by the Axis Alliance,…

Immanuel Kant is a German philosopher who played a big part in the knowledge of theory, ethics and the beauty and nature in life. He was born in Königsberg, east Prussia. Which is now a part of Russia, but back then was known as a part of Germany. Immanuel was a huge influence on all aspects of philosophy especially the different schooling of Kantianism and Idealism. Kantianism is the rightness or wrongness of actions that does not depend on the consequences of those actions, but on if they…

Ukraine (1920-21), in which thousands of Jews were killed. 1919 Abolishment of community organization and non-Communist Jewish institutions in Soviet Russia. 1919 Pogroms in Hungary: c. 3,000 Jews killed. 1920 Adolf Hitler becomes Fuehrer, of the National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), later known as National Socialist. 1920 Henry Ford I begins a series of anti-Semitic articles based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in his Dearbon Independent. 1924 Economic…