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Before World War II began in 1938 Hitler and the Nazi party’s rise to power came with persecutions before the war even began, especially against the Jewish population with the Nuremburg Laws that were established in November of 1935.Hitler was not the only one persecuting those within their own country before the war, Stalin was also persecuting Soviet Ukrainians in the 1930s with a large spread famine across the Ukrainian farmland. Saul Friedländer’s book, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 1…

Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences (max 150 words) When I was five years old, my Dad and I would head to ЦСКА, a local Ukrainian park, and hit tennis balls against the wall. I quickly realized how controlled hitting–to avoid the ball flying over the wall–could be a useful strategy. In Moldova, I trained at a local tennis facility with Olga, a motivated Russian coach who taught me how to win through consistency rather than the…

Section 2B Repression Clergy The Bolsheviks wanted only their own ideology existing in Russia, and so restricted faith by repressing the clergy. In 1918 many leaders of the Russian Orthodox church were brutally murdered - Vladimir of Kiev, who was mutilated, castrated, shot and had his corpse put on display for public, Archbishop Vasily who was crucified and burned. A key strategy of the Bolsheviks was to split the clergy, which they did through introduction of the Living Church in 1922.…

2. Cold War II: IS IT POSSIBLE? The confrontation between the European Union and the United States with Russia over current events in Ukraine, cooperation against international terrorism, agreement to Syria’s chemical weapons, cooperation in the Middle East and Afghanistan and Russia’s closer partnership with China have begun to produce gossips of renewal of the Cold War with exchanges of sharp accusations, the statement of economic sanctions, and-most dangerous-military race that would put both…

Group South. Army group north would head for Leningrad near the Baltic Sea. Army Group Center which was the largest of the three would advance towards Moscow which was 700 miles away. Finally Army Group South would head for the fertile wheat fields of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. At first everything seemed to be working like clockwork for the Germans. In the first day of the attack over 40% of the USSR 's bombers were wiped out. But the Germans had grossly underestimated the true size of the…

A look back at the Viking Heroes (Short Biographies of Viking heroes). This section is dedicated to the great Viking warriors, Monarchs and Norsemen who have inspired the sagas and played important roles in European History in general and Norse societies in particular. Throughout this section, you will have a clear image of what the Norse mentality must have been like during the Viking Age. It also gives you a clear indication of what it must have been when they settled in in places like Iceland…

Grigori Rasputin and the 1917 Russian Revolution One of the most significant events of Russian history was the 1917 Revolution. Predating the revolution, Russia was formed of a hierarchy society consisting of four piers; royalty, aristocracy, middle class and peasantry. After the 1917 Revolution, Russia was dismantled and transformed into the Soviet Union under the governance of the Communist Party. The Communist Party consisted of socialists with the objective to modernize their country-as…

Genghis Khan: Research Paper. Genghis Khan was born between 1162-1167, on the Mongolian Steppe of Northern Asia, born clinching a knuckle sized blood clot, his father Yesugei, a tribal chief and accomplished warrior himself, declared it was a sign that Temujin would be a great hero. Genghis Khan is the ultimate rags to riches story. In a span of just 70 years, Genghis Khan ruled over the largest continual landmass (12 million square miles) empire of human history. While his tactics and military…

American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist and Marie Fiedler (Doneson n.d., p. 327). In 1922, her family migrated to…

1909-10 Polish boycott against Jews. 1911-13 Menahem Mendel Beilis, blood libel trial at Kiev. 1912 Pogroms in Fez (Morocco). 1915 Ku Klux Klan, rascist organization in the U.S., refounded. 1917-21 Pogroms in the Ukraine and Poland. 1) Pogroms by retreating Red Army from the Ukraine (spring, 1918), before the German army. 2) Pogroms by the…