Nikita

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen day military and political standoff between the two superpowers of the 20th century. Starting on the 16th of October 1962, the United States of America (US) discovered nuclear missile launch sites belonging to the Soviet Union in Cuba. For thirteen days the US attempted to remove these missiles, while the world was as close as it ever has been to global nuclear war and fallout. The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by several different factors, and ended…

By the summer of 1938, Stalin realized that the Purges had went to far, signaling the end of massive purges. Nevertheless, the practice of mass arrest and exile was continued until Stalin’s death in 1953 when Nikita Khrushchev finally denounced the Great Purge. Although,even today, some authors and everyday people still believe that the purges were exaggerated and even necessary (“Great Purges”). In the United States today, schools spend more time teaching and…

Before the starting to tell movie we should know that the USA was watching all military movements of the USSR in Cuba before missile crisis. According to movie the plot was; The movie is starting with an aircraft which is taking photos of the USSR’s all military movements in Cuba and they see that the Soviet preparing ballistic missiles. According to analysis, those ballistic missiles be ready maximum in 2 weeks. Later than the president is calling all prime ministers and military commanders to…

talin had hoped to adopt and export the Soviet-style of communism and use it to forge for collaborations with the states surrounding the Soviet. China, being the largest and the newest member of the states that were allied to the Soviet was the major focus of Stalin’s foreign policy interests. Since China lacked modernization, this was a perfect opportunity and, therefore, it would receive assistance. In addition, heavy damage was inflicted on China during the Japanese occupation as well as by…

The Cosa Nostra formulated the Sicilian Mafia Commission or “La Cupula” to resolve intermafia issues. In 1962, La Cupula was formed between all of the Cosa Nostra bosses. La Cupula was instrumental in ending the first Mafia War. Keeping the peace between the Mafia bosses was a tough task, but it was necessary in order to complete political actions. As long as the mafiosos could cooperate and not give up other mafiosos positions, the entire operation would benefit. This was all that was…

There are criminals and peasants, artists and intellectuals, even former government officials and officers. In this, it becomes apparent that writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is not only writing about the Gulags, but also offering readers a way to experience different aspects of Stalin’s the Soviet Union through his telling of the prison camps. This paper will explore a few of these characters, including Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, Alyosha the Baptist, Fetiukov the scrounger, Captain Buinovsku, and…

This investigation examines the question, to what extent did the USSR place missiles in Cuba to protect Cuba’s existence as a Socialist nation? To assess the degree to which the USSR’s missile deployment was for Cuba’s protection, the investigation analyses the global Cold War backdrop that set the tone for the USSR’s missile deployment. The period investigated is the events between 1953, when Khrushchev assumed control of the USSR, and 1961 when the missiles were actually deployed. The events…

My fellow Americans, today we have found out that the Soviet Union is giving aid to Cuba. The Soviet Union is also shipping missiles to Cuba. These missiles can reach anywhere from Florida to Ohio and the United States could be attacked with these missiles. The Soviet Union is an enemy of the United States and they need to be stopped. When I was notified, a board consisting of me, Robert Kennedy, John McCone, Robert McNamara, and Maxwell Taylor. The board has met and have decide on what to do…

Completely unremarkable days are the kind that will add up to years in one’s life, and in Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Shukhov recounts a single unremarkable day of his ten year sentence in a Soviet gulag camp. During his day, Shukhov starves the reader by immersing them in the famine of the camp, establishing food as a basic necessity for survival. Along with the camp’s famine, Shukhov invites the reader to immerse themselves in the bitter coldness of northern Russia;…

Pravda was a daily newspaper that tried to prove labor activism and expose the working conditions in Russian factories. The first paper of Pravda was issued on May 5, 1912 in St. Petersburg by the Bolshevik's of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The paper was closed eight times in the first two years and every time it closed, the Bolsheviks reopened it under a new name "Worker's Truth," etc. Pravda represents Squealer in the book Animal Farm because Squealer tells lies to try to get everybody…