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    famines and the extent of peasant rebellions (Doc 1). Beginning in 1891 rural areas began experiencing famines, and that is the year the amount of provinces affected by rebellions jumped from approximately 2 to 10. Peter Kropotkin, a Russian anarchist, is against the government because he is growing resentful of having to provide food for the upper classes when he himself…

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    The Upper Class in Animal Farm and Russia This paper will discuss the the similarities between the Upper Class of the Russian Revolution and Mollie from Animal Farm. The Upper Class or the aristocrats of Russia were made of mostly the Tsar, the Bolsheviks and the nobles. Many people were very envious of the Upper Class knowing that the Upper Class has the money to do anything they wanted (Chicago Tribune) . Mollie is a vain, white mare in the farm(Orwell 5) . She is not nuts about the idea of…

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    did not want anyone to tell him how to rule To begin with, Tsardom collapsed in February was because Nicholas II was not the “little father” that the russians expected him to be (the big father was referred to God. People expected Nicholas to protect them and care for them if they were in need. His authority and care for the Russians was meant to be like the care of a father in a family but Nicholas fails to show this. This was especially demonstrated during Bloody Sunday in 1905. The…

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    In the year 1917, the war torn Russian Empire was falling to pieces, which led to the people leading a revolution that ended in the assassination of a terrible tyrant in 1918. Occurring nearly one hundred years ago, the Russian Czar Nicholas II, was killed by revolutionists after being held captive with his family for four months. He was dethroned by his people for ineffective military leadership, persecution of religious and political groups, and neglect to Russia’s people. The assassination of…

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    Fuente Ovejuna Analysis

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    Prompt 1 Groups of oppressed people tend to rise and either replace what they found as flawed as reformists or push for a change in the system as revolutionaries. The oppressed group of peasants in Lope de Vega’s play Fuente Ovejuna rose up against their abusive leader Commander Fernán Gómez de Guzmán, because they wanted to push for a replacement in their village’s leader and disliked his ways. The Commander mistreated the people that he ruled over to the point of denying them of their own…

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    For years, the people of Russia suffered under an unfair and unjust government. But now we have a chance to support a moral government under the Bolsheviks, who are focused on the interests of the people. The changes that the new government brought, are based on ideas that were necessary for the welfare of the people of Russia. But why were Bolshevik humane philosophies necessary? Because before the Bolsheviks rose to power, the Tsar Nicholas II ruled over Russia with his twisted ideas and…

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    In a world of constant weapons races and power struggles it is intriguing to understand how countries in close proximity to each other are not always at war. When this constant threat of war fills our daily talk and news it is important to look back on what it takes to keep nations balanced. Henry Kissinger in 1956 was intrigued by the intimacies and mechanisms of how the balance between powers occur. He looked more specifically at the Congress of Vienna, reported on what it took for Europe to…

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    Geography has affected many things leading up to now, it has affected in the past and will continue to affect us in the future. Geography isn’t only the shape of and and its climate but also a contribution to culture, dialect, religion. In Geography Matters it explained how geography can be a protective barrier for some, while in The Crucible the geography affects much as religion and also tradition. Lastly, Geography and its take on my life and how I have become who I am because of it.…

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    is usually a good signifier for not the surrounding, but when it comes to a specific location background music will not do it - accents are necessary. Thankfully, as a class we silently agreed to not have a group of Swedish teenagers attempting a Russian accent in English, and thus, it was up to the props and costumes teams to make the ambience feel authentic. As part of costumes, I took this upon me. Together with Louise, the process began by researching how…

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    Safavids Research Paper

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    territories. In 1724, under the Treaty of Constantinople, the Ottomans and the Russians agreed to divide the newly conquered territories…

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