Uzbekistan

In the 1920s, the leader of the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, distanced the newly formed government from the policies of War Communism through a series of decrees. Under War Communism, the Bolshevik Party practiced class warfare against the peasants and justified the use of force to carry out grain requisitioning, this led to repression and violent disturbances in the countryside, the Bolsheviks relied on these methods to retain power and win the war. By examining the origins of the policy of…

founded the Mughal Empire. His son, Humayun, lost much of his territory. • Mughals: meaning “Mongols.” They were a group of invaders lead by a descendant of Timur the Lame and Genghis Khan. • Babur: a boy who inherited a kingdom, in what is now Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, in 1494. After being driven away by his elders, Babur built an army and began what would become the Mughal Empire. Akbar’s Golden Age: Like his grandfather, Akbar was a great conqueror. He was also a great ruler, a “genius at…

Dr. Vandana Shiva is a nuclear physicist, environmental and social activist who agrees that Globalization increases poverty and inequity. Her primary example is the country of India and how global corporations produce and extract resources causing hardworking individuals, specifically farmers or agricultural professionals, to be forced out of labor and into poverty. She discusses the injustice these farmers and hardworking class face by being ignored as well as the significance of globalization…

Introduction The horrific terrorist attacks conducted on September 11, 2001 (regularly referenced as 9/11), grievously effected the lives of countless Americans, and forever changed the course of the nation’s history. The once seemingly impervious nation became defenseless, as a faceless enemy emerged, converting large passenger jets into offensive weapons. The unanticipated siege resulted in the death of approximately 2,977 Americans, with another 6,000 wounded. The horrendous event…

Who is the armed group, which massacres, genocide and spreading fear around the globe through racism, sexism, anarchism, enslavement, kidnappings, stoning, terrorizing and even mass beheadings their opposition? A faction, which stands against contemporary shared values and morals, and they advocate for violence and barbarism under the name of virtue and ideology. They are known as Daesh, but there are many disinformation, misinformation and lack of information about them. Who are they and what…

An overview: Introduction Larsen and Toubro is a major Technology, Engineering, Construction, Infrastructure and Manufacturing services aggregate, with worldwide operations. L&T addresses basic needs in key segments - Hydrocarbon, Infrastructure, Power, Process Industries and Defense - for clients in more than 30 nations around the globe. L&T is occupied with center, high effect parts of the economy and its…

Why did they tease them? There were some boys in my school from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. They had darker skin and their eye where different than ours. I never teased, but one of my classmates thought it was funny and called them “black ass.” If I was to say something like that, my parents would have grounded me for a long time. But then, while I could see that they looked different I could not make a connection between them and the names they were called. At that time, I did not understand my…

Disciplining Modern Turkey: Historiographical analysis of the Ideology of Mustafa Kemal “Atatürk” The longevity of the Ottoman Empire is undeniable. From its beginnings in 1299 to its end in 1922 the Ottomans were one of the world’s longest functioning empires, with its geography reaching to large parts of Africa, Asia, and Arabia. Though the Ottoman’s lasted seven centuries, the empire was in an increasing state of tortuous decline beginning in the sixteenth century. This decline was inflicted…

Soviet Russia would be determined by the outcome of the war. Once defeat was imminent, Gorbachev wanted to prevent further damage and decided to withdraw his army. The last soldier to cross the Friendship Bridge to the border city of Termez, in Uzbekistan, did so on February 15, 1989. Although the withdrawal was called a year earlier, it was hard for the Soviets to just leave the country in the hands of radical insurgent groups and gave it one last push, but to no avail. Scholars argue that the…

Presence of carnivores helps to maintain the integrity of ecosystems throughout the world (Soulè and Terborgh, 1999). Many carnivores are capable of altering trophic structure and biodiversity through a process known as top-down control (Elmhagen and Rushton, 2007). Through this, carnivores are able to prevent the overabundance of herbivores. If uncontrolled, an explosion in herbivore population density would increase the grazing pressure that would ultimately threat the survival of the…