Russian Revolution

sell property privately without permission and everything had to be done with contracts.[ ] Obviously, this was not always followed but just by having this system in place it allowed for the British to colonize faster and with more ease than the Russians. The property laws favored the settlers it did not, however, favour the Native Americans.[…

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…

After the defeat of Napoleon I, the Allies needed to redraw the map of Europe. This plan was drawn in the Treaty of Vienna in 1815 which created a new balance of power. For example, the Allies reduced France to her prewar borders and she had given up territories which was conquered by Napoleon I. Moreover, the Allies strengthened the states bordering France as a barrier against the renewal of French aggression. The settlement of 1815 undertaken by the Allies was harsh to France and the…

Peter the Great’s absolutist rule can be described as energetic and ruthless. As he visited Western Europe’s early power, he began to model the Russian Empire similar to the Western technology, military reforms, and political aspects. The absolutist rule of Prussia and Austria differed between scenarios; starting in Austria and its absolutist rule between Maria Teresa and in Prussia and Frederick II of forms of the government. All-though there are many differences between the absolutism under…

The play created by the political events that took place in Gujarat in 1974. After Chimanbhai Patel became the chief minister of Gujarat in 1973, he drew dispute from students and teachers over widespread corruption prevalent in the state. Student protests grew owing to high mess bills and poor quality of food in hostels, sparking off agitation in Ahmedabad in December 1973. The clashes between the police and students led to the formation of a students’ committee known as’ the…

optimistic but not as optimistic as Peter the Great. Odysseus and Peter were both strong leaders however in two different ways. Peter was strong in the art of war, he was able to construct an army of his own when he was a child. He eventually made it the Russian navy which invaded multiple countries and defeated them thus making Peter a stronger and more powerful leader. “Peter the Great’s military reforms massively modernised Russia’s Army and Navy. By his death in 1725, Russia’s military was a…

Peter the Great’s Biography Peter the Great was born on June 9, 1672 in Moscow, Russia, and died on February 8, 1725. Peter the Great’s reign, was the turning point for Russia, and his rule is what sent Russia toward the promise of becoming one of the world’s superpowers during the Cold War. Peter the Great ruled jointly with his “elder half-brother Ivan” until his death in 1696 (Hughes). Peter the Great was named the Great for a reason; his legacy was a “program of extensive reform known as…

liminal personae as ambiguous, paradoxical, and resistant to categorization. In Katya Hokanson’s assessment of Russian identity, she observes this issue of liminality in the Russian borderlands (as in the frontier of A Hero of Our Time), noting previous literary attempts to separate Russian identity from the Oriental other. For instance, Peter Scotto explains the justification of Russian imperial identity predicated on the otherness and savageness of those conquered: ‘In…

It has been a while since I last wrote, but I have never stopped thinking about you. The past couple months have been a boring mix of British haughtiness and training for a war that has no meaning to our people. I dream of coming home to you and our beautiful children, but I am afraid to say that this campaign for ‘freedom’ and ‘righteousness’ in Siberia has just begun for us Quebecois man in the 259th. We arrived in Vladivostok just five days ago, on the 26th October, onboard an enormous and…

The Eastern Question is one of the defining aspects of the relationship between what is considered the West (today’s United Kingdom, Germany, France, etc., previously the British Empire, the French Empire, Austria-Hungary, and so on and so forth) and the East (Russia and its sphere of influence in Eastern and Central Europe). The central point of this Eastern Question was contention over the influence and degree of control these opposing powers would have over the slowly dying Ottoman Empire.…