Vladimir Nabokov

The Persecution Napoleon was running the hill down; dogs were behind him, waiting his commandments. The dark sky was showing that a storm was to come. Snowball was running as well, his legs were tired, however his life depended on that. The fat pig, Napoleon knew that he could not run more than that, so he stopped and turned to his followers. “Comrades, I give you carte blanche to catch Snowball; I just need him alive, bring the pig to the cabana near to the lake. I will be there waiting for…

In the 1980's we had cocaine. It was pure, cheap and plentiful. Now, due to Ronald Reagans infamous "war on drugs" campaign (among many other things), cocaine as we once knew, is long gone. However, addiction is a subtle beast. It's resilient in all its ways and finds new methods to persevere. In the modern age, we have our addictions, although it is not so much to cocaine. Instead, it's technology. Just look around anywhere in the world and you'll come across someone with their phone glued to…

Decembrists were Russian revolutionaries and majority of them were army officers that returned to Russia with liberal ideas picked up in France following Napoleonic Wars (lecture, 10/5). Decembrists made a mistake of thinking that Nicholas I would be receptive to their ideas. However, he was a conservative. This one of the reasons to why the Decembrist uprising against the tsar Nicholas. Catherine's Legislative Commission of 1767 also played an important in this uprising. One of the commissions…

Mr. Molotov’s Life of War According to Nikita Khrushchev, “Molotov took the name hammer just as Stalin had taken the name steel, and Stalin did indeed use Molotov to smash his opposition into submission and to pound his own power base into shapes” showing that Molotov was a tool for construction that Stalin used as he saw fit. Vyacheslav’s original last name was Skryabin, but changed it to Molotov which literally meant the hammer. Molotov was arrested and banished twice in his lifetime, once…

For Hitler, it was very important for people to be in work camps, which would prepare the Germen people for was. Stalin’s work camps were much different, focusing on building factories, where he forced peasants to become workers in these factories. The conditions of the workers under Stalin’s reign were terrible, and he mad the conditions for peasants even worse than previous. He changes the entire lifestyle of the peasants by forcing them to participate in collectivization, the policy in which…

helping to defeat Nazism” (https://www.biography.com/people/joseph-stalin-9491723). Stalin started off his rise to power as the General Secretary of the Communist Party. He became dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic after the death of Vladimir Lenin, who was the founder of the Russian Communist Party. Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1879…

During the First World War, Russia was really poor. They could barely afford bread. The poor Russians began to protest. Then some of the Soldiers fighting off the protesters. But some of the Cossacks were unreliable. Czar Nicholas II. (Russian monarch) Decided to shoot some of the protesters, which led to even more unrest with Russian Soldiers. Soldiers were treated badly, and on March, 1, they shot any Officer who didn’t want to rebel with them. They forced Russia's Czar, Nicholas II to step…

In both, Lenin and Old Major’s speech there are many similarities and differences. In Old Major’s speech he is talking about how the animal are not valued , when they really are, “ Our labor tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin” (Orwell, pg.8). In Lenin’s Speech he talks about how the working class people are not valued and do not receive enough recognition for how much they do, “ If it were not for us everything would collapse,…

How significant was the civil war in the bolshevik consolidation of power in the period 1917-1924? The Civil war was of great significance in the bolshevik consolidation of power in the period 1917-1924. In the period of the Civil war the Bolsheviks implemented various tough laws inevitably increasing and maintaining bolshevik control and power. During the civil war It was through the introduction of War communism, red terror, new economic policy, treaty of brest-Litovsk, initial reforms and…

#1 Lenin is able to get back to Russia in 1917 with the help of the German government. He was living in Switzerland and the only way back to Russia was through Germany. So the German government set up Lenin on a train through the war zones, to get back home. The German government helped him because they knew that he would cause more chaos in Russia and it would make it easier for them to take over Russia. Taking Lenin back to Russia would only benefit them. #2 In 1927, the Nationalists turned…