History of Russia

power. They both had huge impacts on the world and on Cuba and Russia. Joseph Stalin rose to power after the death of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky was the natural successor of Lenin but after a complex power struggle Stalin rose out triumphant. Unlike Stalin who inherited his rule from Lenin, Castro rose to power after the Cuban civil war where he defeated the Cuban president Fulgencio Batista and made Cuba a single party state. Russia has also undergone a revolution in which the imperial regime…

Russia, once a great power state during its empire and cold war era, is taking opportunities to gain power again over its rivals, and the United States (U.S.) being the greatest one. Since Russia has revisionist intention in its core, it is not satisfied with the post-cold war international order, and seeks its rightful place among great power states. Russia’s intent to maximize power and its ultimate goal to rise again as a hegemon, challenges current international order. Russia is trying to…

culture, even though I don’t know much about it. There are many things that a culture consists of, in this essay I would like to talk about what I think the Russian culture is like. The major religions in Russia are Orthodox Christians, and Pentecostal Christians. Diversity of religions in Russia is widespread.…

Napoleon’s army marched into Russia, aiming to capture just another country, and make it their own. Little did they expect horrible weather, and usage of a Russian strategy that used the weather to its benefit to put Napoleon, and the French at a disadvantage. The Russian army, under Tsar Alexander had a decisive strategy that would lead to the defeat of Napoleon and his armies. Napoleon lost, because of Tsar Alexander and the strategy, the Napoleonic era was changed, and this victory for the…

Vladimir Putin is the current President of the nation of Russia. Association between Russia and the Western part of the world are intensifying. March 14th of 2014, Russia annexed Crimea as part of its own national territory. As background, Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union. Once Ukraine became an independent nation, the region of Crimea became part of Ukraine. The Soviet Union was disbanded. As indicated in history “Crimea, which has an ethnic Russian majority, has long been a…

Every country goes through or experiences something traumatic and drastic that changes the country’s paths along with their citizen forever and goes down in history, and for Russians that is the Russian Revolution. And with the Russian Revolutions comes a string of cause and effects leading to the “big event”. The Russian revolution brought a lot of transformation replacing the traditional monarchy to the world’s first ever communist state. The Russian revolution came incontinently but the…

Ukraine The history of Russia and Ukraine’s relationship is a long and complicated one. As one of the former Soviet Union countries, Ukraine has close ties to Russia and has historically had a great economic dependence on the current Federation. However, it is mostly due to this complicated relationship that Ukraine is still considered a developing nation. In fact, Russia’s economic interactions with Ukraine have had an overall negative effect on the developing nation and are somewhat…

As an American, what I have seen and heard about Russia, I think Russian citizens are strong and very independent. From the news on the other hand, they may be a strong country but they are very homophobic and weirdly set in their ways. "Russian culture has a long and rich cultural history, steeped in literature, ballet, painting and classical music." (Bradford) The country is a collectivist culture which places high value on their homeland and family. After soviet rule, citizens had a deep…

the beginning of the 18th century, Russia had been going through a series of changes under the power of Tsar Peter the Great. Anton Chekhov, one of the greatest short fiction writers in all of history, lived in this new found Russia. Education, military, agriculture, and the general economy are just some reasons behind the reforms that were changed dramatically throughout all of Russia. Peter’s main focus was modernizing the country that he ruled. To most of Russia, a simple European culture was…

Russia, the world’s largest nation, has one of the most metamorphic governments in the world. It has gone through so many types of ruling and has been affected greatly throughout the years. Comparing the country 's government from the 1900 's to modern day will have varies of changes. Starting out by being an outsider to turning into one of the world 's major nations. The change from being Monarchy to Communism to modern day Russia and the drastic change in the Economy has affected Russia…