Alexander III of Russia

“The fundamental reason why the old regime collapsed was the personality and weak leadership of the Tsar.” To what extent is this statement accurate? The sovereignty of Nicholas II led to the ultimate collapse and diminishment of autocratic rule in Russia. The statement, “The fundamental reason why the old regime collapsed was the personality and weak leadership of the Tsar,” is significantly accurate as demonstrated through the decisions and responses of the Tsar during and post many events…

the originator of the Russian Communist Party, pioneer of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the modeler, manufacturer, and first leader of the Soviet Union. Lenin spent the years paving the way to the 1917 unrest in a state of banishment, inside Russia and abroad. The Bolshevik 's immediately solidified power; privatizing all parts of the Soviet economy, getting serious about difference through the Cheka, or mystery police and founding the Red Terror, went for wrecking monarchist and hostile to…

guilty,” ideas that Europe today considers basic and inalienable was anathema to the autocrats of the time (National Assembly of France). The attack of the Coalitions on France brought rise to Napoleon, a general of the same stripe as Hannibal and Alexander. Napoleon scored major victories over every power…

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…

happen whilst including their allies from other continents and countries who do not have an actual say on what should go on, economic hardships, and an increase in nationalism and propaganda. There are both sides to the possibility of World War III, it…

Marquis, Rasputin, Nick II, and Alexander III are sitting around. There is a banner that say Revolution conference. King Louie 16th starts the conversation,) King Louis 16: (Tapping his glass) Everybody, we are here today to talk about the Social contract and to discuss the guidelines to be a citizen because both the French revolution and the Russian revolution were both affected by it greatly. Rasputin: (Standing up) Can I talk first, I had total control over all of Russia. Nick II: No you…

Ethiopia is something of an outlier in modern African history in that it was largely spared from European colonization in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some have ascribed this anomaly to the strength of the Ethiopian state compared to other African polities, the difficulty of the geography, and the ineptitude of the Italians as a colonial power, and while there is some element of truth to these statements, the crux of Ethiopia success lies elsewhere. What ultimately spared Ethiopia from…

Lenin (Russia) 1917-1924 Lenin was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia. He was the third of six children. His parent were well educated, and he also attended high school. During the high school, he showed a particular gift of Latin and Greek. When he was a boy, his father was threatened with early retirement by a suspicious government nervous about the influence public school had on Russian society. In 1887, his big brother, Aleksandr, was arrested and executed for being a part of a…

superior tactics in battle. The Byzantines used the kantos, an overhand thrusting spear, before the stirrup was invented. The Eastern Slavic Empire lived in what is now Russia, trading and working with the Byzantines until they were conquered by the Mongols in 1240 CE. Most of the Slavic Empire had been captured by 724, but Alexander Nevsky stopped the Mongol invasion at the Neva River in 724 CE. As mentioned previously, Charles Martel stopped the Muslim invasion during the Battle of Tours…

Pogroms by the "White Army" in Siberia and Mongolia (1919). 5) Pogroms by anti-Soviet bands in the 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…