Russian Civil War

did so to hopefully cause an Islamic Anti-Russian uprising. This caused Putin to respond after five days of waiting. The Russian Bomber Jets arrived in Chechnya, which symbolized what was going to come. The result was that tens of thousands of Chechens died, who were mostly Chechen citizens. The Russians did not come into this war with thoughts of having an easy quick battle in Grozny, they planned a massive and devastating attack. The Second Chechen War caused a massive rate of fatalities,…

As Imperial Russia continued to expand, Serfdom took its place as a commonality in Russian culture. While social classes grew more and more apart, peasants were hit with the harsh reality of this class separation. As Kizhanich mentions in the source book; Medieval Russia, “in the middle of the fifteenth century, conditions of Russian peasants deteriorated rapidly. By the early seventeenth century the majority had become serfs of one kind to another.” Serfs did not live the best life, this can…

became an independent nation, the region of Crimea became part of Ukraine. The Soviet Union was disbanded. As indicated in history “Crimea, which has an ethnic Russian majority, has long been a semiautonomous region within Ukraine.”1The annexation of Crimea by Russia occurred in the aftermath of a revolution in Ukraine that cut the pro-Russian president from power. Thus, a referendum was held in Crimea. The people of Crimea wanted to become part of Russia,…

Mexican Americans as well. As Savant points out in his article “Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing[...] proclaimed that our nation represented God’s plan for humankind…”(375) until we ,the United States, went to war with Mexico in “one of history’s bloodiest civil wars, a war that jarred our self-perception of national innocence and historical exception”(375). Regrettably we as a nation can not embrace the idea of intermixing cultures with one another due to the previous conflicts of…

became very disheveled and angered once Russia entered the Great War, Russia was not very prepared for war with the much more developed German military. Everyday, there were shortages of basic necessities, food shortages, and fuel as well, not to mention, the people’s anger that millions of their soldiers had died on the battlefield and Czar Nicholas II had done nothing to stop this and he even kept pouring more manpower into the war even after many died. This had been the political climate for…

statement proves to be true because humans are alive today as a product of instinct. The weak die and the strong survive. The biology of humans leaks into society, influencing their choices every day. Events have occurred, laws have been passed, and wars have even been fought in order to secure safety for men, women, and their nations. However, it does not take away the freedoms of humans. Henry Louis Mencken, American essayist and social critic, believes that the average would sacrifice…

easier, thus creating the scramble for Africa. b. isolating Egypt from the Ottoman Empire's protection. c. creating lower shipping costs, thus stimulating shipping and construction of steamships for overseas trade.* d. setting France and England at war with one another. e. making a deal with Egypt to sell out other African nations at the Berlin Conference. 5. Often colonial territory was seized without the consent of the home government by a. ex-slave traders motivated to make money on…

Catherine the Great do we see major progress. She believed that the steppe needed to be enlightened.[ 55] Catherine led Russia to great success in colonization. A major event that helped was the annexation of a few region such as khanate that provoked a war between Russia and her neighbors.[ 56] The obstacles that once stood in their way were now removed, allowing for an ease of movement of goods and settlers.[…

In the first novella entitled Bela, where we meet Captain Maksim Maksimych who introduces us to the main character Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin. Junior Captain Maksimych seems very fond of Grigory when he describes him to our first narrator a Russian officer coming to the caucasus. The captain said, “ A charming fellow he was, I can assure you, but a little odd. He might spend, for instance, the whole day hunting in the rain, in the cold; everybody would get chilled…

Peter was the first Russian tsar to sponsor secular education. Countless secular schools were built under Peter’s rule. Vedomosti, Russia’s first newspaper, was created to educate the Russian population. In 1724, the Russian Academy of Sciences was instituted. Peter also believed that a successful military must be well educated. Peter the Great’s foreign policy mainly revolved…