Civil union

fifteen years old when the Red Revolution, following by the bloody Civil War, upended the lives and destiny for millions of people in the enormous Russian Empire. The new regime eradicated old customs and believes: most of the churches and synagogues were either destroyed or turned into the warehouses. The Communist Party leaders became God like figures in the proletarian society. The building of Socialism in the new Soviet Union had begun in earnest, and it required young, skilled workers.…

was a series of events that destroyed the Tsarist autocracy, and created the Soviet Union. Many of the events that lead to this were such as the February revolution, the October revolution and the Russian Civil War. These three revolutions took place between March 8, 1917 and October 1922. The Russian revolution made a huge impact on many countries around the world as Russia began a new era under the Soviet Union. The first revolution that took place in Russia was the Russian Revolution. It…

In recent news reports, the European Union (EU) are currently struggling through a refugee crisis as millions of refugees are fleeing from Syria from the ongoing civil war under the regime of President Assad and Islamic extremists violently attacking and executing the citizens. The neighboring states around Syria that hosts the refugee camps are “burden[ed] by housing, feeding, and caring for millions of refugees. Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Iraq have absorbed an estimated 4 million…

United States Employees’ Compensation Act is a federal law, enacted on September 7, 1916. Sponsored by Senator John W. Kern, Democrat of Indiana and Representative Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Democrat of Maine, it established compensation to federal civil service employees for wages lost due to jot-related injuries. This act became the precedent for “Disability Insurance” across the country and the precursor to broad-coverage health insurance. President Woodrow Wilson signed H.R. 15316 into law…

achieve national objectives. ("Foreign policy | Define Foreign policy at Dictionary.com," n.d.) Some may say, Ronald Reagan wanted to change the definition of foreign policy, but he had felt that Communism was insidious and believed that the Soviet Union was determined on ruling the world. Many did not understand Reagan's ideas, when he had taken office and sometimes still misunderstand them today. Reagan had wanted no use of nuclear weapons at all because they would be the cause of war and…

The split between the USSR and the PRC also knows as the Sino- soviet split happen due to the difference of political ideas and ideological relation between the people republic of china (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the period of the Cold War. During the Cold War both the USSR and China was the largest communist nation in the entire world. The split between the USSR and the PRC was the first and most serious confrontation to arise in the communist world at that…

By the end of World War II, everyone was tired: tired of chaos, murder, and destruction. “Europe was in shambles, whole cities destroyed, and even the victorious Allied nations were economically crippled”. But, Europe was not the only region that suffered from the pain of war; almost all the so-called “third world” countries were either directly involved in war or their resources were plundered for war. After all of these sufferings and sacrifices, suddenly, the world was on the verge of another…

During this time, a civil war between North and South Korea, caused by an establishment by the Soviet Union and the United States in 1945. The Koreans failure to hold free elections in 1945, intensified the division between the two nations of North and South Korea. The North established a communist government led by the Soviet Union and Kim Il Sung; devoted to creating a Communist value and influence in Korea, while the South…

Joseph Stalin. After the Russian civil war, the Soviet was born. Joseph Stalin rose to fame after the death of Lenin in 1924. Joseph focussed on creating a model communist state yet in the process he established a totalitarian government. The “communist” Soviet committed many acts, causing the fear of communism. An example is the death toll on his nation, eight to thirteen million people died in the transforming process only encouraging the fright. The Soviet Union had a inhumane way of battling…

The United States and Russia, once known as the Soviet Union, have tested relations in the past in what is called: the Cold War. The Soviet Union set up nuclear missiles pointed at the U.S. in Cuba, causing Americans declared that any nuclear weapon launched from Cuba would be viewed as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States and that retaliation would be guaranteed (Winkler 94). The fear that Russia may overtake the U.S. has not subsided. Americans had strived to be the leading…