Nicholas I of Russia

Digging through the trunk filled with family relics I stumbled upon my great grandfather Shmuel’s journal entries. His entries detailed the October Revolution, End of World War I and the events spanning across the next fifteen years before he came to America with his family in search of a better life. Some background information on who my great grandfather Shmuel was. My great grandfather Shmuel a Jewish farmer living in Eastern Russia, now a part of modern day Ukraine, however, he will call…

Since 1915, Russia was involved in a long transitional phase, in which major changes influenced substantially the society, the Russian economy and politics. However, when Stalin came to power, he showed that he aimed clearer targets compared to his predecessors. Within his reforms, agriculture was set to be modernised through collectivisation, but its prosperity began to crumble as the implementation of this system cost human lives and marked an economic disaster, whereas Communists managed to…

World War I and II were the most catastrophic and impacting wars ever. The early 1900s were a tumultuous time in the world. It was a time when many different nations began to fight and compete for different countries and territories before World War I. Many nations grew along with their military and power, while other nation began to decrease in size and power. There were two major events in the twentieth century, World War I and World War II, both caused by unique events that greatly…

of 2014, is a captivating story of the Russian Revolution as it unfurled. The Romanov family, a renowned and illustrious clan, were the powerful rulers over Russia from 1613 to 1917. Throughout all the years of government, the family conquered multiple issues. However, the group eventually fell in 1917 due to the resignation of Tsar Nicholas the Second. Aside from the historical aspect of this book, there are many other messages imbedded into it that most readers will recognize. The novel is…

Marxist, he returned to St.Petersburg and acquired a leadership role in the revolutionary movement. Then in 1904, Russia began war with Japan and well, they lost quite a bit. These loses caused many citizens to become angry because of how much the war effort strained the national budget. January 9th, 1905, a group of workers in St.Petersburg took their concern directly to Emperor Nicholas the Second in the form of a petition. It didn’t go through, the workers were met by guards and fired upon.…

first composition and by age eight he performed publicly for the first time and by eleven he was performing for the tsar of russia, Alexander I. At age sixteen he was enrolled at the Warsaw Conservatory of music. He spent time traveling to Both Berlin and Vienna to perform and by age twenty in 1830 he traveled to Paris, France shortly before the Polish revolt against Russia, preventing him from returning home. This is where he officially settled at the age of twenty-one a year…

like this is the reason why Nicholas Carr disagree with the process on which we develop our answers. Nicholas Carr claims in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” that the younger generation depend much more on electronic references to gain information than their own brains. He is stating that the vast amount of information provided from the internet is making us lazy. I totally disagree. Although the advancement of technology is changing us, it’s for the better. I like to think of google…

dissatisfaction with the czar. Czar Nicholas II was overthrown by his subjects when he decided to enter World War I, despite Russia being unprepared to fight its powerful and industrialized enemies. Communist leaders within Russia soon started to gain more control. A similar event occurred in China in 1911, when revolutionaries overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Communism began to spread throughout China causing many problems. The rise of the Communist party in nations such as Russia and China also…

The opposition in Russia opposed to Tsar Nicholas II autocratic style of before 1905 can be categorised into two main groups: Revolutionaries and Reformers (liberals). In turn the revolutionaries can be further divided into three distinct groups: Populists, Social Democrats and Social Revolutionaries. It has long been debated how much of a danger they posed to the tsardom, before 1905, which is what I shall be discussing. The Populists, who dated back to the 1870s, regarded that Russia’s future…

With political discourse taking center stage in Russia during the early 20th century, the atmosphere surrounding the beliefs of the working class switched from the oppression of autocracy towards a communist state. The effects surrounding the societal switch was sparking new ideas and viewpoints in the world of art. Russian avant-garde artist, Kazimir Malevich, the inventor and pioneer of Suprematism, was a driving force in the development of today’s modern art community. His views and messages…