Congress of Soviets

Introduction Every revolution has to bear a semblance of nobility with regards to the slogans that characterize it. By extension, every person who claims to be a revolutionary, according to Fitzpatrick (2001), “dreams of creating a new world out of the old one, where injustice, corruption and elements of apathy are forever removed.” In this respect, it is, therefore, justified to insinuate, just as Fitzpatrick (2001) continues to afford, that revolutionaries constitutes enthusiasts and…

The Seed of Western Values Prompt C The Eastern world is a mystical and fascinating world, the West has always viewed it differently throughout history showing the Eastern cultures as barbaric or uncivilized. Although our history classes show them in a different perspective the area is culturally rich and has deep roots of its ancestral past. In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the reader dives into the mystical world and the modernization, regime changes, and religious revival…

throne. In 1918, Nicholas and his family were tragically executed by the Bolsheviks. The dramatic downfall of Tsar Nicholas was the ended the Romanov dynasty in Russia. It ended autocracy as a political system in Russia and lead to the creation of the Soviet Union which went on to spark major tensions with the world in the Cold War. This historical turning point shaped much of 20th century history and the lives of over 293 million people. In between this huge political drama and cataclysmic…

The Cold War was a rivalry that played between the USSR (Soviet Union) and the US that had global effects. It was defined by tensions, hostilities, and confrontation between the two nations. The beginning of the war is seen due to the dividing of Germany. With the Allies taking Western Germany and Western Europe, and the Soviets taking Eastern Germany and Eastern Europe, all occurring 1946. So once can see that the world is divided into two, each with their differing ideology. This is also knows…

communist ‘invasion’ and met with panic. Since the introduction of nuclear weaponry to the world stage at the end of WWII, the US and USSR began building arsenals of these weapons, something the Soviets believed they were trailing the US in. To address this, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev moved to place Soviet Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, well within striking distance of the US. He…

Bosnia/Former Yugoslavia The Bosnian Conflict is a conflict with two parts, one included an armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina; another is the Bosnian Genocide of the Bosniak people. The Conflict was caused in part by the splitting of Yugoslavia, during the early 1990s near the end of the cold war. The Bosnian Genocide coincided with Bosnian War, the genocide was a mass killing or ethnic cleansing of the Bosniak people and their culture, which occurred shortly after the…

In the fog amid the Cuban Missile Crisis or also known as the October Crisis, overseers of the Soviet Union and the United States occupied with an on edge, 13 day political and military in October 1962, over the establishment of atomic equipped soviet rockets on Cuba which is only 90 miles from the United States shores. On October 22, 1962 President John Kennedy advised Americans about the nearness of the rockets, he disclosed his choice to order a maritime barricade around Cuba which he made it…

This person died recently, and I believe he was one of the world’s largest narcissist. He was convinced that he was superior to others. He looked at most people as a threat to himself. He was not one to be criticized or spoken ill about. If he thought that you were a threat, he would make you go away. As he remained in charge, he became more convinced that he was the ultimate ruler. Again, if you did not agree with his views you were made to go away, whether it was an exile, prison, or death.…

Yeltsin’s Failures in Shock Therapy Market Transition “We have defended political freedom. Now we have to give economic [freedom], to remove all barriers to the freedom of enterprises and entrepreneurship, to give people possibilities to work and receive as much as they earn.” – Boris Yeltsin (Brady, p.11) During the early stages of the formation of the Russian Federation under Boris Yeltsin, the economic changes and turmoil reached a critical turning point. The pressure to have rapid…

Several analysts of democratic systems asserted two causes behind the relative importance of institutional structures, as opposed to society and social organizations for improving the quality of government (Diamond, 2015; Raipone, 1998). Plattner questions the extent to which political institutions effect the apparent difference between governmental influence in the economic sector. Fukuyama (2001) argues the causes of corruption to be a result of the make-up of public institutions, and that it…