Vladimir Nabokov

Throughout history, music has repeatedly reflected specific events and emotions of people from that time period. Although music is intangible, it is possible to infer exactly how the composer felt while writing a specific piece of music. This is especially relevant with Russian composers in the 20th century. Due to their oppressed and depressing lifestyle, these composers wrote music reflecting their emotions, creating a connection with listeners who experience the same emotions. This is…

political, social, and economic principles. Marx assess the workers to have a revolution against the capital system to eliminate the classes and have an equal rights to everyone. Therefore, the first head of the Soviet Union, the revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who gave the workers what Marx had in his mind with changes of some crucial aspects of Marx 's in order to fit it into the Russian situation. After the Lenin Dead in 1924, Joseph Stalin took the power of the USSR. Some might argue that…

I will first explained Marx and Engel’s ideology and their vision of socialist and communism. Then I will explain how did Russia revolution happened which diverge from Marx and Engel’s blueprints of revolution to socialist. Such as; the spread of socialism, transition from socialism to communism, which people started the revolution, transition of power and how the revolution came about and the difference in life style that people lived in Russia to what Marx and Engel envision. Marx and Engels,…

Do you ever want someone who will treat you fairly and not make up any crazy rules for you to follow, then you should vote for Snowball. He will protect the rights for the animals better than anyone else. I believe Snowball will be the best for animal farm because of all the ideas he can come up with, like his idea for the windmill. Snowball will not take things from the animals, like milk from the cows or eggs from the chickens. You see Napoleon is trying to take over because he thinks he can…

Joseph Stalin, to put it simply, is the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world. He is plain evil, and that is what makes him so intriguing. From Stalin’s harsh adolescent years, to his crime ridden young adult years, and finally the years of his dictatorship, the life of Joseph Stalin is one for the books. Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 18, 1879 in the Russian occupied country of Georgia. The Djugashvili family was desperately poor. Josef’s father was a…

Over my spring break I was able to have the opportunity to go back to the Dominican Republic, to an all exclusive resort. There were so many different cultures that I was able to interact with the week I was there. I never notice how different people greeter from other cultures. There was a lot of people from Russians, Brazilians, and Dominicans. The Russian culture is very different from American. The men are very dominate while the woman mostly take care of the kids. Us being from America…

The Baron’s Cloak, by Willard Sunderland, focuses on the life story of Baron von Ungern- Sternberg, a Russian military officer. His life gives historical details of what the Russian borderlands were like because he was born in the borderlands, then spent much of his career in the borderlands and would eventually be executed after being captured in the borderlands. He fought on three major fronts like Poland, Lithuanian, and Romania; and against the Austria Hungarians, even though we has not born…

it. The awful choices he made caused a negative demeanor to establish itself within the lower class, which in the long run made them start a revolution. The February Revolution brought about a liberal government called the Provisional Government. Vladimir Lenin,…

“Animal Farm” is an allegorical novel written by George Orwell that serves as a manifestation of his hatred upon totalitarian dictatorship. This book is about an animal rebellion that can be related back to real-life events that followed the Russian Revolution of 1917 in the Soviet Union. The Manor farm was the place where the rebellion took place and Mr. Jones, a drunk who did not take any responsibilities of his animals thus causing the animals to fight for food and the freedom, was the owner…

Two men who were both leaders, but one was far worse than the other. Their names were Julius Caesar and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. This essay is about Julius Caesar and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, because they were both leaders, but only Julius was the only one to become a dictator. Nicholas II and Caesar were both loathed leaders who were gruesomely murdered by political rivals. For Julius Caesar a defining moment in his life was the Gallic war and when he became a dictator. The decline of…