Russian Mafia

reluctantly took command of an empire overflowing with revolutionaries seeking change in response to hardships. His shy personality, coupled with his lack of political education, made him unfit to handle the war-torn chaos that would soon darken Russian skies. Nicholas’ series of unfortunate, unprepared and uninformed decisions began with his marriage and would ultimately lead to the demise of his imperial family’s three-hundred-year dynastic tradition. The turn of the century illuminated…

121 19 October 2014 Joseph Conrad was born on December 3, 1857, in Berdichev, Ukraine. His parents, Apollo and Evelina were Polish patriots apart of the noble class who conspired against the oppressive Russian rule of the time. As a consequence, they were arrested and forced to live in the Russian province of Vologda with their 4-year-old son, Joseph Conrad. They Conrad's education was erratic. First, he started being tutored by his literary father. When Conrad's parents died several years…

Although many of Alexander II’s reforms appeared liberal in nature, most of them did not turn out so in practice and were simply initiated to promote stability in the Russian Empire. Furthermore, Alexander II was reluctant to relinquish his absolute power. Combined with the fact that he displayed traits of an autocrat from time to time, particularly after an assassination attempt in 1866, these reasons make ‘Tsar Liberator’ an unsuitable title for him. Instead, a better term to describe…

centralizing Russian government, expanding the empire, and gaining the loyalty and respect of the people. She reorganized provincial government, codified laws, and enacted state-sponsored education for boys and girls. As well as gaining power of the warm-water port on the Black sea in 1774 and seizing land from Poland. To gain the respect of her people, Catherine put together a group of delegates in 1767 that would help her know the people’s wishes and would contribute in making a Russian…

During 1683-1908, both the Ottoman and Russian empires dealt with internal and external challenges that affected their methods of ruling their empires. Three similarities they both encountered was they both faced Westernization and constitutional challenges directly, they both had many members of the rising education urban middle school class deserted constitutional nationalism and lastly, they were both able to attain the Western industrial challenge. While experiencing these internal and…

This essay is about the defeat of the Russian Tsars during the twentieth century. A tsar is an autocratic ruler or leader. It all started on the year 1917 the date November 6 and 7. During the year 1917 it was the year of explosive political events. The leader of the Bolshevik Party was Vladimir Lenin. During that year there was a provisional government had been assembled by a group of leaders from the Russia’s bourgeois capitalist class. Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of…

The author of Catherine The Great Empress of Russia Zu Vincent it was illustrated by Xnr productions.It is a nonfiction book about Wicked History.I chose this book use it looked interesting i also chose it because it is about Wicked History.It was interesting to read how they would fight and kill for the crown.That is what i have learned about the book Catherine The Great Empress of Russia. In the beginning of the book the setting took place in Anhalt-Zerbst in center of present day…

Both the Mexican Revolution and the Russian Revolution happened in the early 20th century. Though the events of each revolution weren’t correspondent, the revolutions themselves had the same goal. The outcome wasn’t exactly the same for the both of them, but similarities can be traced between the two. It’s notable that neither revolution had the intended outcome in the end. The Mexican and Russian revolutions were caused from the peasant’s need for land, both had a somewhat successful outcome,…

soldiers all around European, from their clothes, to their weapons and tactics. Before the reforms, the Ottomans severely lacked behind the Europeans in strategy, tactics, weapons, and training, and suffered humiliating losses to their Austrian and Russian foes, with it a vast amount of their territory. With the western reforms, the…

1917, the world is on its heels. The Great War has been spurring on for three years, and Russia was not faring well. The leader of the Russian Empire, Tsar Nicholas II, was a ruthless leader. He suppressed political dissent, and cared not for the starving peasants that he ruled. These peasants, still sore from a massacre in 1905 which left hundreds wounded in the streets. Winds of change were high, and the political surge of communism left many workers feeling the need for revolution. The…