At the Second Congress of the Russian Democratic Labor Party, it was agreed upon that Russia was in need of a revolution as the workers and peasants of the country were becoming dissatisfied with the Czar and the government. The end goal of the revolution was to be socialism. However, Congress split into two parties: the Bolsheviks (the majority) and the Mensheviks (the minority). The main disagreements revolved around party membership, with the Mensheviks arguing for a broad-based membership…
two great powers, the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union. It was a dominate affair and both countries had different beliefs that led to the weapons of devastations. They had major crises like the Cuban missile crises, Hungary, and the Berlin Wall but the most worrying issue was the growth of mass destruction weapons. The history changed in the late 1950s, when the former Soviet Union launches Sputnik in space. Sputnik was the World’s first artificial satellite.…
Russia was a massive empire and a great power of Europe in the late ninetieth and early twentieth century. However, it lagged behind in economic and political aspects as compared to Germany and Britain. In 1917, two significant revolutions occurred where the first overthrew Nicholas II government and afterward established a provisional government. Eight months after the first revolution, a second revolution took place where Bolsheviks was brought to power. During this period, many groups of…
Ukraine has underestimated the crucial role of nationalism in Crimea. Many Russians moved to Crimea in 1990 to escape the collapse of the Soviet Union but they couldn’t return to Russia after 1992 due to International Policy and Human Rights tariffs set by the European Union. Now the perspective has been an important weapon to understand the motive, desire and ideals behind Putin’s campaign to gain Eastern Ukraine. Marxism has resurged as a valid argument…
Besides the monetary amount the United Kingdom will save from no longer paying out membership fees and immigration benefits, leaving the European Union would allow for the UK to set up favorable independent trade negotiations with other nations. As an independent state, Britain would gain influence over the rest of the world by gaining back their independent “seat” on international affairs discussions that the EU had taken away. According to the Conservative Party’s Chair of The Economic Affairs…
By 2050, the world’s population will reach 9 billion. The first question coming into people’s mind is where can we fit all these people? However, the most important question should be, how are we going to feed all these people? While other regions have reached the limits of agricultural yield per hectare land, 60 percent of Earth’s uncultivated land is located in Africa. Not only that, but Africa’s resources such as coal, oil, and gas are in demand and the majority of the developed world has…
Kennedy was a man who strongly believed in peace, and living in a peaceful world. In Kennedy’s third State of the Union address he briefly speaks about Cuba and the fact that although a war had been completed and that at the moment there was no imminent danger, peace was not yet fully achieved. In an address to the nation on nuclear testing and disbarment President…
To first explain the history of refugees you need to know what they are, they are displaced citizens in one country moving to another country, mainly causing problems if a very large number are moving out of a country. An example of a large number of people moving was during and after World War 2, when millions of Jewish people were moving out of Germany into Europe. Now to explain why it happens, Refugees usually move countries because of economic problems, war, corrupt governments, and natural…
states how the Cold War was not only a tragedy for the United States and the Soviet Union, but also for the entire world. It also tells how the United States and the Soviet Union were not thinking about the problems that would appear when they “declared” war on one another. The Cold War was an ongoing feud between the two greatest and strongest countries in the world that ultimately led to the fall of the Soviet Union. It has an…
Joseph Stalin’s Industrialization of the Country, 1928, represents his all-encompassing sweeping push to reform The Soviet Union into a country that would have the technological and industrial capabilities to play a large role in the international affairs of the world. As it occurred through some periods of Russia’s history, starting with Peter the Great’s push for urbanization, Stalin desired to transform the USSR from a “backwater” nation into a force that could be on-par with some of the most…