Bolshevik

I am not a Russian, yet my blood has never felt redder. To me, the Cold War is no more than a fact of history. The Berlin Wall fell ten years before I took my first tumble as a toddler. I would never have imagined that the Soviet work mentality would transform how I approach everything from ice skating and jazz trumpet to student government and research papers. I never chose to start ice skating. Like many children, the decision was made for me. By age 6, I was skating and swimming…

A strike is a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer. (www.dictionary.com). The Winnipeg General Strike killed the city in a couple of hours where movement was postponed because of the lack of workers. The strike was historically significant because of its events and also because of it’s before and after effects. The following essay will demonstrate how in all of Canadian history, with…

Orwell’s Animal Farm has some scenes containing violence. These violent scenes not only progress the plot but also have a hidden message. Battles, killings, and misfortune are all a hidden message, pertaining to historical allusions, allusions specifically relating to the events in Russia in the early 20th century. The Battle of Cowshed, a violent scene in which a sheep is killed, a pig is grazed by a gun, and a horse fights against a defenseless human, all serve for one purpose, to give…

Communists first came to power in Russia in 1917 during the Bolshevik Revolution and in time were able to expand its empire and control in the form of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which by 1940 had control of over 110 million people spanning over fifteen countries. This union remained until the early nineties; however, the regime showed signs of cracking long before then with a rapidly declining economy which was unable to compete with its capitalist competitors. This caused…

initial progress. This changed when the Germans smuggled Vladimir Lenin back into the country and he began preaching for immediate revolution. Things turned violent, the Tsar was forced to abdicate and a provisional government was set up. But for the Bolsheviks, that wasn't enough. When the Provisional Government refused to back the Russians out of the war, Lenin and his extremists hijacked the entire revolutionary movement, established a communist state and plunged the country into a years-long…

national identity. The cultural artifacts explored in this essay are a series of Nazi propaganda posters, which treat different target groups of the party such as the family unit, the youth as well as the state’s enemies, namely the Jews and the Bolsheviks.…

a fan of the Soviet Union and its Socialist policies. He also did not consider the Soviet Union a positive representation of the possibilities of socialist societies. One of Orwell's goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive than the last. Thus the book is filled with allegories, and in this paper, three major allegories will be discussed more in-depth; Napoleon; Mr. Jones; and finally Boxer.…

One of many ways students broaden their knowledge of history is through attending lectures and presentations. In Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. lecture titled "A Life In The Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 includes reflections from the twentieth century through a person who lived it all. The Twentieth Century was a crazy epoch of time, of trials and troubles; of tradegies and triumphs. The Twentieth Century was a glorious yet a doomed time period. The century was a time of science,…

country. Even after his banishment, supporters of Trotsky still continued to oppose Stalin and his policies through the early 1930s. This can be seen in an excerpt from a letter written by Trotsky in December of 1932, “Among the older generation of Bolsheviks, including those who only yesterday were ardent Stalinists, can be observed the complete decay of the authority of Stalin and his group and a decided turn towards great attention and estimation of the Left…

First, the three levels of analysis are Systemic, State, and Individual. The systemic level focuses on the big international picture: alliances, polarity, and relationships between countries. The state level focuses on the dynamics within a state: its government, bureaucracies, and nationalism. Finally, the individual level focuses on both the large bodies of individuals and their psychology and also the key players in international affairs: politicians, kings, prime ministers, military leaders…