Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin, who was the first Democratically elected President of the newly minted Russian Federation, made it one his first priorities to to organize the 1993 Constitutional Conference. Yeltsin believed that, in order to prevent Russia’s new government from becoming totalitarian in the future, the new Russian constitution had to put in place strong…

World War II was a catastrophic tragedy. What we can cultivate from the war, however, is that the war was fought for peace, for the future, for the people. The casualties and pains of the soldiers were not without a cause. That is the case with Joe Beyrle, an ordinary soldier who found himself on many sides of the war in Thomas Taylor’s Behind Hitler’s Lines. Beyrle’s life can be seen as a microcosm of the entire war, where families, friends, and comrades in the battlefield were all split apart.…

Albert Einstein once said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” While he died during the earlier years of the Cold War, a decades-long conflict that never led to any combat but did cause intense strain, competition, and espionage between the two global superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, his statement proved to be remarkably prescient. David Hoffman structures his whole book on the horrifically…

Broadly speaking, the US – Russian disarmament talks have continued in the same cold war relationship dynamics between the United States and Soviet Union. The brief interlude of the Yeltsin years was an exception. As soon as Putin took over the helms of Russia, the old cold war dynamics of mistrust and paranoia have come to the fore again. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 underscored the need for responsible nuclear leadership and was a precursor to the détente. During the early Strategic Arms…

Russia Have you ever stopped and really thought about Russia? Have you thought about how big Russia is, the problems they have, the treaties they have signed, or even the wars they have fought? They have a quite interesting history with other nations. Although Russia in not part of NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, they still seem to help out countries in need. Russia was founded in the 12th century. Russia was named the Russian Empire under the control of Peter I, who ruled in…

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born in 1931, in Privolnoye, Russia. Gorbachev’s family was very poor and as a teenager, he contributed to his family’s income by driving tractors at the local machine station (Biography, 2015). Gorbachev’s young life and upbringing was that of a communist country. He graduated from high school with a silver medal in 1950. He then continued his academics at the Moscow University, which was the premier school in the Soviet Union…

collapse of the Soviet Union on 1991? A-Investigation plan On Dec 26, 1991, Russia was brought to a standstill as the Soviet flag was lowered down from its pole. The day before, Mikhail Gorbachev officially resigned and transferred his power to Boris Yeltsin; these events marked the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War; yet the beginning of a new age of democracy in Russia. I was interested by Gorbachev specifically because of how much of a polarizing figure he is in history. He was hated…

It is December 7, 1941 and Pearl Harbor has been bombed, America is entering World War II. However as war quickly approaches there are problems that arise, such as the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean being in the way of us getting to the enemy. These bodies of water raise many logistical problems, for example how do we transport thousands of soldier with weaponry, food, fuel, and tanks all the way to the Pacific Islands and Europe? The answer is one that you don’t often learn about in your high…

Arguably the two most formative events of the 20th century were the first and Second World War. Both killed millions of people, spawned radical ideologies and happened in relatively close succession. It is the closeness in proximity of these two conflicts that has generated such study and intrigue into what caused them, mostly so they can be avoided in the future. At the Brenton woods conference in 1944 they had this very thing in mind when developing the new world economic order. All of which…

Andrei Chikatilo FACTS Andrei Chikatilo is one of the greatest serial killers ever to live in communist Russia. He was born in 1936 to a family that resided in Yabluchne, Ukrainian. In 1978 Chikatilo coaxed a young girl in an abandoned shed; whilst, attempting to rape her. She struggled and in order to control her Chikatilo slashed her with a knife while ejaculating; ultimately, leading to her death and his first victim. Lucky for Chikatilo's his wife supplied him with a strong alibi and he…