History of Russia

Imagine you are having a lovely time with your family on your trip to Russia, walking around the streets of Moscow, exploring, seeing the sights and eating the different types of food. Unfortunately, you were unaware of a parade as you were crossing the street. But, instead of seeing a happy scene, you got a firsthand view of people attacking others, police running about trying to force one person off of another, and people cursing and hitting others. Then before you know it someone is accusing…

on historical facts, Russia became a superpower nation even before the 19th century due to the kind of leaders they had. Ivan 1V is a legendary name in the minds of all Russians who treasure the success of their nation. He was a great visionary and a leader with good motives . Due to his leadership, he mobilized the formation of laws that were used to bring order to the empire and set goals that propelled the empire to success.…

Michael. “What is Cultural Revolution.” The Russian Review 58:2 (1999): 181-201. Daly, Jonathan W. Autocracy Under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905. Northern Illinois University Press 1998. Harison, Casey. “The Paris Commune of 1871, the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the Shifting of the Revolutionary Tradition.” History & Memory 19:2 (2007): 5-42. This book elaborates on the precursors to Russian Revolution by examining the link between the French revolutionary…

throughout all of history. One example of such a person is Anna Akhmatova, a 20th century Russian poet who lived through Joseph Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union, a time period characterized by severe oppression and a persistent fear of death. Akhmatova used a variety of techniques throughout her poetry, but nevertheless the biblical allusions used in Requiem, Lot’s Wife, Rachel and “Thank you, God” were effective in demonstrating the suffering of Russians during Stalinist Russia.…

Russian Revolution where Nicholas II had many events that made the people of Russia not trust Nicholas II and the ideals of an absolute monarchy anymore. This lead to many different ideas of how a government should be ran by the people of Russia. The Russian Revolution, to many believe, was one of the most successful…

has seen the Kremlin all but reject the principles of allegiance and armistice the United Nations was fashioned to uphold. Deep-seated into the fifteenth year of Vladimir Putin's ideological campaign for reclaiming a throne once held by the USSR, Russia is once again taunting international boundaries, asserting the weight of Putin’s militaristic, expansionist Kremlin against little global resistance. Since…

Introduction Poland and Russia have had ongoing conflicts with each other throughout periods of history. Many of these conflicts were due to issues pertaining to both territory and religious tensions. Multiple Polish-Soviet wars broke out over the last 500 years, however, in the last 300 years many of the victories were won by Russia (Zawodny 69). The continuous blows to the Polish state weakened Polish forces as well as their economy and led to its eventual partitioning in the 18th century…

Chechnya has been striving for its dependence for hundreds of years, and has been repeatedly denied it by the former Soviet Union, and the current Russia. The Chechens fiercely opposed the Russian conquest of Transcaucasia during the nineteenth century (Shah). Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Chechnya’s first attempt at declaring its independence was met with Russian occupation (Shah). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Chechen interest in independence was renewed,…

War and conflict have been a part of the human experience for most of recorded history, and many scholars use the concept of just war to analyse wars in their own time and in the past, and to consider how to create long lasting peace. Just war theory forms the basis of much of international law today, and still can be used to analyse modern day conflict, such as the Russian Federation’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Just war theory in its most coherent form was first discussed by Saint Thomas…

Germany’s biggest mistake Battle of Stalingrad which was a major tide turner in Russia, and finally one of the worst winter Russia has experienced in history. In June 1941 when Nazi forces where invading Soviet Union,…