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in 1890 and by the time the Russian Revolution broke out he had become a well-known avant-garde poet. His work was frowned upon during the 1920s and 1930s when under the communist regime Joseph Stalin put strict censorship on Russian art and literature. It was during this time that Pasternak made a living as a translator. The novel that would make Pasternak known the world over was completed in 1956. “Dr. Zhivago” is an epic love story set during the time of the Russian Revolution and WW I.…

The chief cause of the Russian Revolution was Czar Nicholas II’s inability to run the government properly. There were plenty of circumstances that brought about the Russian Revolution. A few examples would be the bad economy, corruption within the government, and the Czar doing whatever suits himself (“Russian Revolution” History.com). With theses events, there was a loss in morale in citizens all across Russia. The citizens also lost hope in the government and the Czar. These events lead to an…

Before European and American colonization of Latin America, most of the nation's farm lands were overrun by weeds, buildings were destroyed, and left in shambles because of all the civil unrest. Poor farmers were constantly in debt to the rich landowners because they were paid so little and the necessities they needed were too expensive. This debt was passed down from generation to generation in a system known as peonage. Political instability was another widespread problem in 19th-century Latin…

Grigori Rasputin and the 1917 Russian Revolution One of the most significant events of Russian history was the 1917 Revolution. Predating the revolution, Russia was formed of a hierarchy society consisting of four piers; royalty, aristocracy, middle class and peasantry. After the 1917 Revolution, Russia was dismantled and transformed into the Soviet Union under the governance of the Communist Party. The Communist Party consisted of socialists with the objective to modernize their country-as…

Moscow. Around the 1780s Catherine’s reign was lead by a period of expansion of the trade infrastructure and the communication infrastructure. Catherine helped in the establishment of the free economic society. Catherine played a key role in the Russian Enlightenment Period. The Enlightenment happened in 1685-1730. Another name for The Enlightenment was The Age Of Reason. It took place primarily in Europe and in North America. In the late 17th and early 18th…

Decembrists were Russian revolutionaries and majority of them were army officers that returned to Russia with liberal ideas picked up in France following Napoleonic Wars (lecture, 10/5). Decembrists made a mistake of thinking that Nicholas I would be receptive to their ideas. However, he was a conservative. This one of the reasons to why the Decembrist uprising against the tsar Nicholas. Catherine's Legislative Commission of 1767 also played an important in this uprising. One of the commissions…

Otherwise Russians were left alone, free to practise their religions, and do whatever they wish, within reason. The Mongol officials even punished those who desecrated the Orthodox church, and they followed a different faith. Military arrangement, and administrative practises were altered during the period they were part of the Mongolian Empire. “The Russian people, as one Russian historian pointed out, "were trained by the Mongols to take orders, to pay taxes, and to supply soldiers without…

Nicholas II was crowned king in 1896. However, he was given the throne without knowing how to run a kingdom. During this time the Russo-Japanese War was going on. Later this led to the Russian Revolution in 1905. Czar Nicholas II created the Duma, which is a “State Assembly”. But he always got rid of the Duma when they didnt agree. This made the public support the Bolsheviks. In 1914, Nicholas put Russia into World War I. This was a very expensive war and Russia was not in a good state to take…

poor Russians began to protest. Then some of the Soldiers fighting off the protesters. But some of the Cossacks were unreliable. Czar Nicholas II. (Russian monarch) Decided to shoot some of the protesters, which led to even more unrest with Russian Soldiers. Soldiers were treated badly, and on March, 1, they shot any Officer who didn’t want to rebel with them. They forced Russia's Czar, Nicholas II to step down as president of the cold, cold part of the world. After this happened, the Russian…

Alexander II is known today as the “Tsar Liberator. He held a vision of Russia as a major world power, a Russia that was westernized, industrialized, and educated. However, his reforms did not go so smoothly. With many attempts to take his life were made throughout his reign, he was finally assassinated before the completion of his reforms in March 1881. Was the reforms he made deemed a success? The humiliation of the Crimean War had greatly exposed Russia's main problems, involving its lack…