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    History.com Staff. “Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-massacre-in-russia. Russia was under the control of Tsar Nicholas II and they were in a losing war against Japan. That caused violence in St. Petersburg in what became know as the Bloody Sunday. Nicholas fell under the influence of a man called the mad monk, Grigory Rasputin, which caused Nicholas to make many bad choices. The demands for reform…

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    AD Patient Case Study

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    Our case study of the AD patient speech shows the specific verbal behavior of the person, who suffers AD for 6 years. The specifity reflects the differencies in the lexical retrieval and selection during recitation of the poems and in the everyday conversation. The strategies to recollect the target word in the poem are based on the text features first of all; when the semantics of the line, rhythm and rhyme fail to facilitate the search for the target word, the patient switched to her real-life…

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    Russia between the years 1917-1945 was a time period of change and uprisings. A time of propaganda and government corruption. Where new Russian leaders stood against the government and led a revolution. This time period was very important for Russia to become a world super power. Wars started the time period and was at the end of the time period to, which were also important to Russia’s future. I am going to look at how the Soviet Union succeeded and the Tsarist regime did not. By looking at how…

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    Russian Peasants

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    How far do you agree that life for peasants was uniformly bleak during the period from 1855 to 1956? By 1956, the Russian peasantry had finally been liberated by Khrushchev as he had introduced passports and finally given them identification. This was a massive step from what peasant life was like in the 1850’s – where serfdom was the most dominant form of relation between the peasants and the nobility, meaning that peasants in Russia were bound under the rules and regulations of the higher…

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    Internecine Wars

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    Five countries went into a room, only one came out victorious. Supposedly, impartial Britain suggested that the only way peace could be achieved was“ by balancing the relative strengths of the various attending nations and making major territorial adjustments( Encyclopedia), but Britain was wrong and in no means impartial. The only way peace would be found in Europe was if the leaders could “preserve it from two of its chronic problems: hegemonic adventures (so there would never again be a…

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    incompetent, and thus resulting in chaos when the country began to notice they were losing numerous battles and the war entirely. Russia had already attempted different forms of government, entering the war with tsarist autocracy. Prior to the war, the Russian people were desperate for change, very aware of their state of destitute. Due to the government’s neglect and the people’s constant demands, a revolution began while Nicholas II of Russia, now the former emperor of All Russia, was…

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    This fine year of 2017 marks the 100 year anniversary of a revolution the shaped Russia to what we see it as today. In 1917 large numbers of people gathered into what is now known as St.Petersburg. Czar Nicholas the 2nd of the royal russian family decided to abdicate the throne. He and his family were executed during the takeover of Russia. Vladimir Ilich Lenin tells a crowd formed in Moscow that as the leader of the Bolsheviks he established the the foundation of communist rule under what has…

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    he also caused unrest within the Russian Elite. Nobody liked him and the many reforms he implemented undermined the stability of the communist system as far as the Soviet elites were concerned. Eventually, Brezhnev took over from Khrushchev and whilst initially, the impression was of a more stable, wiser man, unrest grew in the empire. Since 1957, Novotny, the leader of the communist party in Czechoslovakia had been very unpopular. He was a hard line communist who hadn't introduced any reforms…

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    October Revolution of 1917 is also considered a revolution in terms of Yoder’s definition. The Provisional Government was weak and unpopular, because it was not able to solve the political and economic problems. Russians were not supporters for the World War I, while the Provisional Government continued to wage the war, which made it unwanted government. The soldiers and the peasants started asking for land, but the Provisional Government refused to distribute it fairly and this was another…

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    Le Corsaire Ballet

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    Title- Discuss the history of the Le Corsaire ballet including political, social, and other important influences. In this essay, I will be talking about the history of Le Corsaire and the impacts it has had on the world or ballet world. I will be relating these points to social and political influences, and any other factors that could have impacted its growth or development as a ballet. Le Corsaire is a ballet presented in three acts, which was originally choreographed by Joseph Mazillier to…

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