Intelligentsia

One of the great questions of history is: How was the Nazi party allowed to come to power? It is important to note that the National Socialists did not win power through a coup or by forcibly taking over but in fact were democratically elected into power by the German people. This means that normal people allowed one of the most evil regimes in history to take total control over their entire lives. It makes one have to ask: How did the Nazis convince the German people to accept them and their…

Russia was forced to face a mass of alterations during the reign of Alexander II - economic growth, industrialization, the Crimean and Russo-Turkish wars, peasant uprisings, and, most importantly, Alexander II's Great Reforms, which culminated with the emancipation of the serfs. All of these changes contributed to an upheaval of the social structure that Russia had been operating by for centuries. There has always been an imbalance of power between the masses (peasants, serfs) and the gentry,…

been fears for years that those in control were weak and couldn 't control the nation. They had concerns that the Tzars concession to the 1905 revolution meant that they could end up loosing their power in the future. Many individuals of the Intelligentsia, as well as the Duma had constructed plans against the Tzar is response. None of which were enacted at this time but the layed the ground work for the cous that came latter. At this time speeches were made against the autocracy in public…

It is not rare that an athlete breaks his record newly during a certain period continuously in the athletic world. Indeed, the same thing happens in a literary planet as well. Shigeharu Nakano was a Japanese author and Communist Party politician, and also a top runner of the age for the youth that began to open their eyes with Marxism through the literary world. Because those people who came to the stage already despaired all the Japanese existed, besides for them the death of Akutagawa was…

Looking some of the language Joseph II’s language choices, in the Edict of Tolerance, we can see that the purpose of his reformist policies was to benefit that State’s economic standing. For instance, Since it is our purpose to make the Jews more useful and serviceable to the state, principally through according their children bette instruction and enlightenment, and by employing them in the sciences, arts, and handcrafts. The State intended to fix their economic position, by pushing the…

Ethnic cleansing has been described as a fairly a modern phenomenon – one that Michael Mann associates with modern democracies (Mann 5). Bearing in mind that culture and ethnicity are oft considered vague terms, for purposes of maintaining clarity, this essay will use Michael Mann’s definitions of ethnicity, ethnic cleansing, nation and nation state. Mann defines ethnicity as a group that defines itself or is defined by others as sharing common descent and culture, therefore ethnic cleansing is…

In 1985, the Soviet Union had been in a period of stagnation for almost two decades, and before that it had gone through poorly planned reforms in the Khrushchev era. Once Brezhnev had his time in leadership, the country needed to make some drastic changes. By 1985, the USSR had fallen in culture and overall quality of life, the economy was in intense disrepair, and the Communist Party leadership had become ineffective. Gorbachev’s reforms, including perestroika and glasnost, were the major…

In postwar Europe the opportunity to seize the nations of Eastern Central Europe was presented. Not necessarily by any fault of their own but because the great powers of Europe were not concerned with the sovereignty of the small nations of East Central Europe and allowed for their disregard. During this time of indifference the Soviet Union came in and asserted their power over the smaller nations in an attempt to Sovietize them. It is of vital importance that the reasons why, how, and to…

Süss knows that once he is in the city and has the ear of Duke Karl Alexander. He will be able to manipulate is way into staying inside the city and protected by the Duke. “The plot concerns the rise and fall of Suss. The Duke’s emissary visits him in the Frankfurt ghetto. The Duke is in financial difficulties: the Wurttemberg diet will not grant him funds to enable him to live in luxury” (Tegel 80). This aspect of the film will shadow fears that the Nazi party will try and entangle into the…

In the 1800’s there was a power struggle for ethnic and gender equality for people of African descent. Enslaved Africans or slaves taken from Africa and African Americans sought out to gain the same natural rights: life, liberty, and property which were given to people of European descent. After slavery was banned throughout the United States Africans gained the freedom and rights of a European “man”, such as voting and right to property, but what about intellectually? What rights were Africans…