History of Russia

Over my spring break I was able to have the opportunity to go back to the Dominican Republic, to an all exclusive resort. There were so many different cultures that I was able to interact with the week I was there. I never notice how different people greeter from other cultures. There was a lot of people from Russians, Brazilians, and Dominicans. The Russian culture is very different from American. The men are very dominate while the woman mostly take care of the kids. Us being from America…

I disagree that Vietnam was a noble, unselfish American effort to assist an ally from falling to Communism for the following reasons: First: The Soviet Union and America did not have diplomatic relations until 1933 and fought together to defeat Nazi’s in WWII. Even though these two countries fought on the same side during this time the differences in ideology, political views as well as the economics of each country began to create a wedge between them. The two countries turned scientific…

In 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies, jointly triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe. However, within just a few years, these wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle to prevail in a new "Cold War." The Cold War was a time of extreme tension between the USSR, or the Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective ideologies. It was not declared in…

Russian way of life became to take over the Baltic region; therefore, Baron learned Russian because the nation-state of Russia want the residents to know Russian. He was the “first generation of Russification” to live in the “new East Asia” (Sunderland, p. 53). His military career took him to the eastern borders; where he encountered different cultures like, the Mongolians. Russia shared “2,000 miles with Mongolia”, therefore, Baron taught himself the Mongolian language so he could communicate…

Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas II at the time. He believed in a system of government whereby one person has absolute power, or autocracy. Russia was becoming industrialized very rapidly, which brought about low paying positions and a massive rate of unemployment. Nicholas II was very poor at managing important aspects of society such as politics and the military. World War I was not playing out the way the Russians had intended and the general population blamed Nicholas II because of it. The…

(Dictionary.com) What this basically means is that property ownership is divided equally among a community or owned by the state. When it is owned by the state, property is divided to the people. Everyone works and is paid by what they need. In history, Communism has played an important role. The concept of communism has been around since 1848. Communism was thought up by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to try and end capitalism. A big part of the Cold War was communism. Soon after World War II,…

The Cold War is a topic of interest for many scholars since it unfolded after the Second World War. The Cold War has generally been considered to be long over, with either the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall, the 1989 Eastern European revolutions or the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 marking the end of the Cold War. Orthodox scholarship on the Cold War have thus generally defined the Cold War to be a period of conflict involving the United States and the Soviet Union, beginning…

1. Introduction Gazprom is a Russian energy company that is operating worldwide and is a natural gas provider for Russia and for more than 30 other countries. Gazprom was founded in 1989 by restructuring the USSR Gas Industry Ministry (Gazprom, n.d./2015). In the following years, Gazprom became a global company for gas supplies. The company’s share in the global gas reserves is about 17 per cent and the share in the Russian gas reserves makes up 72 per cent (Gazprom, n.d./2015). The company has…

As World War 1 goes to the end, Russia gets to an informal situation. The leader of Russia who was Tsar was ruling the country in a wrong way. After the corruption of Tsar, Lenin who is part of the Bolsheviks comes up and rules the country. He comes up with a government that will give land and takes care of the country. As a result, Lenin became a leader who made Russia a stable country. Lenin’s government was overall more different than Tsar’s government for many important reasons. The main…

late 1700s and early 1900s, both France and Russia had some troubles with their government that some what triggered the beginning of their revolutions. In this paper, I will argue that there are more similarities than differences when it comes to the causes of both French and Russian Revolution. Both revolutions were triggered by previous events that involved them; France was involved in the American Revolution that made them have economic problems, and Russia lost to a war with the Japanese…