Russia

1. The movie depicts the change of identity in Russia and for the Russian people by showing the downfall of the Romanov dynasty. It starts with the beloved Tsar and Tsaritsa ruling over imperial Russia and progresses forward with them becoming less and less popular. This downward shift in popularity is partly because of the close friendship of the Tsaritsa with the drunkard Siberian priest Rasputin. Despite his stated noble intentions to help and serve his Matushka and Batushka his mere presence…

Tension between the West and Russia flared again, when the representatives from America, England and the USSR met once more at Potsdam. Stalin met with Clement Attlee, Churchill’s successor as well as Harry Truman, Roosevelt’s vice president who assumed presidency after Roosevelt died on April 12th, 1945. Truman had a harsher attitude towards Stalin than did Roosevelt; he was extremely suspicious of Soviet actions as well as Stalin’s intentions. During the conference it was agreed that in…

In the excerpts from On the Corruption of Morals in Russia, Shcherbatov is particularly disturbed by the fact that the desire for luxury and extravagance was becoming what drove court life and what was valued most by the Empress. Shcherbatov believes that values such as loyalty, nobility and devoutness were replaced by greed, ostentation and envy. Shcherbatov gives several examples of the declining morals of the Russian court, with the strongest example being that of Count Shuvalov. According to…

In Yekaterinburg, Russia, there was a family that got executed. Czar Nicholas the 11 and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks family. Thus bringing an end to the three century old Romanov dynasty. Nicholas Romanov was crowned in 1896. He being one of the many rulers was never trained to rule. Which did not help him with the people. After the big horrible Russo-Japanese war there was an even bigger Revolution, and this was the Russian Revolution of 1905. The Russian Revolution…

philosopher and historian, but the events of World War II caused him to abandon his plan to pursue a career of being a teacher in philosophy, but later become a lecturer in Soviet Institutions at Oxford University. Published in 1967, Katkov’s work titled Russia 1917: The February Revolution asserts that the Russian monarchy failed, not because of the common perspective of the Tsar being incompetent or the Russian civilian’s discontent of the monarchy, but due to thoroughly planned and complex…

Russian Witchcraft Witchcraft has a place in every culture in some way or another, however in Russia it is utilized in multiple ways. Witchcraft in Russia has been around for a long time and consists of spells, rituals, and witch trials. The belief of witchcraft has been around since the seventeenth century when there was a witch hysteria that was the start of the witch trials in Russia and the rest of Europe. Witchcraft is still around now with the use of everyday spells and the rituals such…

In Russia, Peter the Great ruled from 1689-1725. He embodied absolutism because he both strengthened the central government and reduced the power of the nobility. He reorganized the government and created a Senate to administer the state. He divided Russia into different provinces to make administration more effective. He forced all landholders to serve in the military or another civil service position. In order to control the Russian Orthodox Church, Peter appointed his own procurator, who made…

they belonged to their masters, who could buy and sell them like cattle. They demanded the abolishment of serfdom and feudal dues. The inefficiency of peasant-based agriculture was one of the chief indications of "backwardness" in pre-revolutionary Russia and a problem that the Bolsheviks, upon coming to power, were dedicated to overcoming. The Provisional Government had failed to address the land issue and because of that, “Most Russian peasants, numbering some twenty- three million, were…

Industrialisation in Russia during the late 19th century was one of the defining economic changes that the nation underwent. It altered Russian society to a holistic extent, having a multitude of direct and indirect economic, social, and political ramifications. Industrialisation expedited the dawn of economic, structural change, claimed responsibility for renewing Russia as a global and competitive power, and acted as a powerful catalyst for accelerating social evolution. The progression of…

As one of Russia 's famous authors, Leo Tolstoy used his skills as a writer to illustrate various historical accounts of certain important events of Russian history as well as his criticisms of government and corruption through his novels. Although mostly fictitious, Tolstoy 's novels/novellas would be used as understand the emotions and thoughts of people from every class, religion, and background in Russia to a particular event in Russia history such as the Napoleonic Wars or the War with…