Alexander II of Russia

the fact that Russia had been fighting in WWI for 31 months, impacting a huge amount of war weariness as soldiers were slaughtered while fighting. On the revolutionary day, protestors sang revolutionary songs, and waved red flags with ‘Down with the War’ on them. The Tsar ordered that riots be shut down, and sent in the military. Russian soldiers did not like killing other Russians - so led a mutiny against their officers. This was how the people were able to remove Tsardom from Russia. Leon…

Mightier Than the Sword Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America Mightier than the Sword, Uncle Toms’ Cabin and the Battle for America was written by Davis S. Reynolds, a Twentieth century biographer, literary critic and historian who has written fifteen books which have analyzed and given clear insight to the Civil War Era. Reynolds received a Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkley and obtained a B.A form Amherst College, and is also a regular reviewer for the New…

countries grew larger in power whereas the bigger countries grew smaller in power, Russia, Japan, and China being the greatest examples. While Japan thrived in many aspects, Russia and China were on the verge of falling apart. The different approaches to nationalism by the three countries affected their political, social, and economic transformation and modernization while Japan mostly benefitted in comparison to Russia and China. Japan followed China to open their gates to trade “under…

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…

Revolution occurred in a series of separate revolutions in 1917. After people grew more and more unhappy with the autocrat government, Nicholas II decided to step down from his position of being Tsar leading into him being the last Tsar of Romanov rule. After this, a Provisional Government as well as the Petrograd Soviet political groups were created after Tsar Nicholas II stepped down from his autocrat position. Both of these groups had forms of authority as well as power but, to a great extent…

power, and while there is some element of truth to these statements, the crux of Ethiopia success lies elsewhere. What ultimately spared Ethiopia from colonization was not its inherent strength, but rather the decision on the part of Emperor Menelik II to trade a degree of independence for sovereignty by submitting to the European system of international order and using European rivalries to maintain Ethiopia’s…

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…

to the Palace of Tuleries from Luxembourg. It was also around this time when political liberty had fallen and given rise to civil liberty. While under Napoleons leadership France was beginning to gather internal tranquility, and on the other hand Russia under Emperor Paul had broken its alliance with Austria effectively ending the second phase of the coalition war. According to Lockhart (2008) after some short time Napoleon wrote a letter the King of Britain asking to the end war and stating,…

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,…

Soviet Union also underwent rapid industrialization, shifting the country’s chief economy from agriculture to manufacturing. Nevertheless, the push for industrialization saw agriculture regress into a system comparable to that of serfdom in tsarist Russia. In terms of leadership, the Soviet Union returned to a nearly autocratic rule as Stalin used his political positions and cult of personality to accumulate a considerable amount of power over the government. Similarly, both Stalin and the…