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Plan of Investigation: Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin had spent over a decade as a chief of the Bolshevik operatives. His responsibilities eventually led to him becoming a key figure in Lenin’s inner circle. During the Russian civil war, Stalin began acquiring connections with military leaders, such as generals in the Red Army. After the Bolsheviks won the civil war, they began expanding their revolution into other parts of Europe. Stalin’s actions during this revolution were…

In the year 1917, multiple revolutions took place including the october revolution and the february revolution. The cause for these revolutions is to end imperial rule from other interfering countries. The reason why the russian revolution started was because people were unhappy with their king, Nicholas 2 who believed in government corruption. Once the Russian Revolution started people started to gain more support and more benefits from the government. One reason why the russian revolution of…

There are many reasons for the growing unpopularity of Tsarism by 1905, some more important than others. These include necessary factors, such as the Bloody Sunday Massacre. Conditional factors, such as the dictatorship and the Russo-Japanese war. And Contingent factors, which include the beliefs and attitudes of the Tsar and the declining standards of living of the peasant population. The beliefs, attitudes and personality of the Tsar himself was a major factor contributing to his…

In the book, Anthem it describes the idea of a collectivist society in which there is no individual within society where the main character, Equality 7-2521, tests the limits of the government to help the world. During this time, the government controls all aspects of life from the jobs people can have, how much education, where they may search, and who they may speak to. Whereas in the speech it shows the perspective of a man setting up the government and their corrupt ways to get men to join…

Under Stalin’s control, the Soviet Union experienced a foundational transformation that served to create a new empire. The Communist Party became the core of the state, forming a government of party leaders and soviets, as well as replacing capitalist elements of the former era with the ideology of socialism. Stalin’s Soviet Union also underwent rapid industrialization, shifting the country’s chief economy from agriculture to manufacturing. Nevertheless, the push for industrialization saw…

Nicholas II played a vital, negative role in contributing to his complete downfall during the early 20th century. His reluctance to become Tsar was a major factor that contributed to his own demise. The release of the October Manifesto in 1905 was one of the key events that led to the end of Tsar Nicholas’s rule over Russia. Tsar Nicholas’s poor leadership in World War 1 as well as his weak-willed personality was also issues that further contributed to the collapse of the Romanov Dynasty. These…

Introduction Innumerable historians have tried over the past century to pinpoint the exact moment and reason that led to the fall of Tsar Nicholas II, who was the Emperor of the Russian Empire. However, the downfall of Tsardom cannot be perceived as an event or even a long process, but rather as a consequence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 as well as a sequence of unmanageable and highly antagonistic acts that involved contrasting parties, which occurring simultaneously consequently led to…

As World War 1 goes to the end, Russia gets to an informal situation. The leader of Russia who was Tsar was ruling the country in a wrong way. After the corruption of Tsar, Lenin who is part of the Bolsheviks comes up and rules the country. He comes up with a government that will give land and takes care of the country. As a result, Lenin became a leader who made Russia a stable country. Lenin’s government was overall more different than Tsar’s government for many important reasons. The main…

one of Catherine's greatest achievement in the medical domain is her introduction of the small pox vaccine to Russia. On August 28, 1768, Dr. Dimsdale, the author of The Present Method of Inoculating for the Small Pox, and his son arrived in St. Petersburg. When he was received by Catherine, he was impressed with her knowledge on small pox (Rounding, 210). Before inoculating the Empress, the doctor insisted on testing the vaccination on 40-50 people because he was unsure if the vaccination…

(Zimmermann 2015 par.1) claims that culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people that can be identified from language, religion, social habits, music and arts. During the soviet period, Kazakh culture was suppressed by the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) language and religion policy. Fireman 2006 (p1) emphasizes the language policy of the USSR “In the 1930s until the late 1980s, the Communist party (CPSU) actively promoted the Russian language as a common bond…