Bolshevik

Although World War I was over, hysteria still lingered. At the end of World War I, many people adopted strong anti-immigrant and nationalistic beliefs, around this time the Bolshevik Revolution took place in Russia, which led many to believe that immigrants wanted to overthrow the United States. The end of the war led to a decrease in demand and then an increase of unemployment which then led to labor unions and then labor strikes. The lingering hysteria of World War I, widespread labor unrest,…

acceptable; the United States needed to regain international sports supremacy and maintain a suitable level of talented athletes. This concern about America’s global image caused changes to the amateur status and participation rules, created the President’s Commission on Olympic Sports, and established permanent training sites for Winter and Summer Olympic Games. The 1978 passage of the Amateur Sports Act committed the government to full-time investment in worldwide sport and the progression of…

Sofka Skipwith is an extraordinary princess who saved many Jews. There is a lot about her life that is unknown to many people. Her life before the war was hard for her. During the war, it was still hard for her and everyone around her. Even after the war it was hard, but Sofka always found a way to make life easier. Sofka Skipwith was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1907. She was the daughter of Prince Peter Alexandrovich Dolgorouky of St. Petersburg of Russia. Sofka was one of the first…

violence by the Nazi party (Nolzen 4). Hitler used anti-Semitism as a political firearm to acquire popular support, accusing the Jews for the challenges that Germany faced, such as being defeated in the World War 1, economic depression, and the Bolshevik warning of communism. Hitler’s allegations were conflicting with no truths. Moreover, after he entered power, there were…

the street with trucks armed with machine guns. Consequently, 10 unions leaders were arrested, and 24 strikers were wounded or killed. The government justified their decision by claiming that the strike was a result of rebels attempting to start a Bolshevik revolution in Winnipeg – an aftershock of the revolution in Russia 18 months prior to this…

Sofka’s extraordinary life ranged from childhood in the highest court circles of Tsarist Russia to Communist Party meetings in post-war Chelsea, and ended peacefully on a remote patch of Bodkin Moor. She appeared just six weeks ago on a Time watch television documentary on Rasputin, recalling in a few moments' shots the pre-1917 Russia from which she had come so long ago. Sofka Skipwith was a hero of the Holocaust and saved 2000 French Jewish women. She was born Sofka Dolgorouky in St…

patriarchal standards. Therefore, it was eye-opening to learn that the communist party had not usually been so forward-thinking about women’s issues. In the timeline for the “History of Battered Women,” the author recounts that as the reform by the Bolsheviks begin to crumble in 1936, the Communist party in Russia launches a campaign to remind women about traditional family standards and their place at home (California Department of Health Services, Maternal and Child Health Branch, Domestic…

occurred after the end of the First World War and during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The reason Americans started to grow fear in communists and anarchists was due to a series of bombings by anarchists. Because of the Red Scare in the 1920s many people that were innocent were arrested because they expressed their views. As well, civil liberties were ignored and this lead to a fear that a revolution in the United States, like the Bolshevik Revolution would occur. The people who were…

oeuvre across a variety of mediums, Popova and Stepanova are most celebrated for their textile designs, which flooded the Soviet fashion market in 1923. The gender inclusivity of the Russian avant-garde is typically framed within broader Bolshevik…

WHAT WOULDVE HAPPENED IF THE NAZI'S WON WORLD WAR II Imagine how the world would have been different if the Nazis had won World War II. , If the axis powers won over the allied forces. Since the Nazis were known for their destructive crimes, such a fantasy is undeniably a frightening one. However, let us try putting the negatives aside, and view a Nazi victory more as a fantasy than a nightmare. United States General George S. Patton had not realized until late in the war that the United…