Intelligentsia

According to Guerrero, the Filipinos had a Jose Rizal as we know of him today, because he was brought up in privileged circumstances and a nurturing family. These privileges shaped our hero into becoming ‘the very embodiment of the intelligentsia and the petite bourgeoisie.’ Guerrero also adds that even if Rizal was born in different circumstances such as in poverty, he still would have made a name and probably would have been the next Bonifacio of his time. But, nurtured in a much fortunate…

Communism is a political and economic system meant to eliminate the capitalist inspired class system where the elite class benefits by exploiting the working class. While all communist regimes have undergone a violent Stalinist or Maoist phase in their initial attempts at a socialist government, their paths have later diverged; some states, such as China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union, have democratized and opened their doors to foreign influence and trade, while others, such as North Korea, remain…

Russian did not allow the, to cross-examine the miscreants. The second attack moved by Chaim Nachman Bialik to write a famous poem, In the City of Slaughter, which resonated among the Jewish intelligentsia. More importantly, the Zionists (Usshishin) and Revisionist’s (Jabotinsky) and Territorialist (Zangwell) were highly offended at the cavalier treatment of this activity. Galicia After the Third Partition (1795) of the Lithuanian-Polish Empire, Austria annexed most of Lesser Poland,…

During modern times, Hitler and Stalin also utilized secret police to enforce their rule, but in a more radical way against citizens of their own countries, not just slaves. After Hitler became chancellor in 1933, he was extremely cautious of uprisings. While the Nazi party agreed with creating a perfect state by cleansing the state of Jews, not all people approved of the idea. Therefore, Hitler created the Gestapo, a secret police force that helped solidify Nazi control by identifying and…

When one contemplates about a author that makes the reader analyze and investigate each individual word and action of the characters, William Shakespeare, George Orwell and Stephen King come to mind. However, one that makes the reader feel as if they were present in the character situation or time period is, Anton Chekhov. This brilliant author proposed many ideas about the Russian culture and their beliefs; an example can be seen as The Bet. From this story, one can investigate the question,…

violent acts. He states that the assault on the monarchy was not undertaken from fatigue from the war, but from the desire for the monarchy to make better efforts. Pipes believes that initially, neither social discontent nor the agitation of radical intelligentsia played any significant role in the abdication of the Tsar . The events of Feburary 1917 demonstrated that the Russian Empire was ultimately an artificial and fragile structure, held together by the policy, army and bureaucracy. Pipes…

As a 20th-century writer, C. S. Lewis responded to a variety of contemporary issues that he saw and experienced. Lewis used his writing to combat and correct the educational shifts and standards of his modern England, making him a problem solver; in The Abolition of Man, he claims that England 's education system has created "men without chests," and he calls for sentimentality and values to be re-instilled by offering the Tao as the solution. Before Lewis can correct a problem in society, he…

The start of the Russian Revolution started on March 8, 1917. The book Animal Farm was written between 1917 and 1943 which reflects the revolution and into the Stalinist era. The book was written with the genre of satire which is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com). Animal Farm also used an outsider narrator which…

In business, there are many factors involved in the channel of distribution for any product. The way in which a company’s product will travel from producer to consumer is one of the most critical decisions a business will have to make. In some industries, businesses have taken advantage of a variety of ways to manufacture and distribute their products. A great example of where this is in effect is in the coffee industry. Among all commodities, coffee is the second most traded product in the…

Alexander II’s reforms changed Russia more than any other events from 1855-1905. The most significant of these reforms The Emancipation of the Serf’s freed the people from the land. Serfdom had long been seen as the symbol of the superannuated Russian system holding Russia back from real progress. The emancipation had some significant advantages for Russia: it created a movable industrial workforce, a better military it changed the structure of Society and it abolished it without Civil War or…