Petrograd Soviet

restricted the publishing of his books and when Doctor Zhivago was denied publication in the USSR, Pasternak smuggled the manuscript of the book to Italy where it was published in 1957. In 1958, Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the Soviet…

ready to revolt against the crown. In February 1917 the people of Russia reached their breaking point. Rasputin was killed by a group of nobles and the Female textile workers of Russia went on a hunger strike and were joined by all of the workers in Petrograd. The Cossacks and army were sent to control the crowds and stop them but the soldiers were also tired of the war and joined the strikes instead. The revolutionary parties led by the Mensheviks took control of all municipal and government…

At this time the peasants were rising up against their feudal overlords protesting the growing economic oppression under the nobles and clergy. In 1861 the serfs were freed and issued with small amounts of land, but in return they had to pay back a sum to the government, and the result ended in a mass of small farms deeply in debt. Their life was a sharp contrast to the rich landowners, who held 20% of the land in large estates. Until 1861 they belonged to their masters, who could buy and sell…

Russia experienced a surge of nationalism during three major aspects of its contemporary history that led to the modern interpretations of Russian national identity. The first of three advancements in nationalism advanced under the rule of Peter the Great, whose influences and policies evoked Russia’s potential as a Western State. His rule saw the manifestation of a united Russian consciousness that developed and strengthened internal affairs domestically, and rose as a national power on a…

The former part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Russia has been an independent nation since 1991 after collapse of communistic regime. Russia is the largest country in the world. Her square cover more than one-eighth of the Earth 's inhabited land area. Russia is also the most populous country with nearly 144 million people in November 2014. Russia has borders contiguous with many Asian and European countries. A large area occupied by Russia gives it certain advantages.…

because the late Soviet leadership renounced the very forces that forged the Soviet empire and that propped up Bolshevik government’s modus operandi since its inception. In 1917, the yoke of repression was heated by Lenin, and through 1953 cooked by Stalin in complete totalitarian fashion. Gorbachev, however, resolved to govern differently not realizing the policy contradictions that would ultimately lead to USSR’s demise. If Gorbachev were the same person as Lenin or Stalin, the Soviet Union…

One of the most substantial controversies involves the westernization of Russia. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia made the decision of integrate itself into the western world. This essay discusses what Russia hoped to achieve by attempting to unify itself into the western world, how it planned to integrate, and the challenges it faced along the way. After the Soviet Union concluded, Russia found itself under new leadership. Under this leadership, the concept of westernization…

The Persecution of Religion in Stalinist Russia Throughout history, religion has played an important role in shaping culture, government and the economy, but it is important to also consider times when the absence of religion has done the same. Under the control of Joseph Stalin and the Communist party in the early 1920s, Russia became the first nation to institutionalize atheism. Propelled by the ideals of communism and the example of his predecessor, Stalin sought to secularize the nation and…

Even though The Soviet Union turned from a rural farming country to an industrialized power house in just a matter of years, Stalin’s plans were more harmful than helpful to the Soviet Union because of the famine he caused, and the millions that died because of his actions. Joseph Stalin was one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks or communist party that took control of Russia on October 24, 1917. During the Russian Revolution, he was a general who fought in major battles in the Russian Civil War…

tenets were from what humans’ desire. In the introduction of Greg’s article, he speaks of a fictitious account published in 1951 by sociologist David Reisman’s. In this account Reisman tells of how ‘Operation Abundance’ is being waged against the Soviet Union. Instead of using guns and bombs to accomplish their goals, the US was air-dropping appliances, clothing, and other luxury goods to the Russian people.…