Vladimir Putin

After the collapse of the Romanov Empire in 1917, the Soviet Union emerged and took over Russia. The Soviet Union was founded in 1922 by the Bolshevik Party and was led by Vladimir Lenin. The Soviet Union dominated Russia and it became the first country to be based on Marxist socialism, which gradually transitioned into Communism. After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin rose to power in 1924 and dictated with terror. Upon his rule he transformed the Soviet Union from an agricultural based society into…

Before there was a “Russia” as we know it today, Russia was better known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The USSR was a Marxist-Leninist state governed by a single party (Docherty, 1997, p. 85), and abided by a constitution known as the Brezhnev Constitution. This constitution was adopted in 1977 and was the third and last Soviet constitution before the fall of the USSR. The Brezhnev Constitution guaranteed a multitude of political and civil rights nearly identical to those…

“Divide and conquer”, or “divide et impera” from Latin, is a common principle in politics and sociology known from the ancient times. It has been associated with Philip II of Macedon, Caesar, Napoleon, and more others as a military principle used to expand their territories. “Divide and conquer” is based on distributing power into smaller power groups to control land and its resources. Modern world politics and art of military warfare is no different from the ancient times and usually operates…

Communism in the Soviet Union was greatly feared throughout the rest of Europe. From its beginnings in Lenin to the end of it when the Soviet Union fell and Boris Yeltsin became the government leader in Russia, the Red Scare ran throughout not only Europe but the whole world. Lenin was the first to come up with the Communist party, and it was enhanced by Stalin. Stalin became a totalitarian dictator of Russia, and used fear and terror in the Communist Party to enforce their ophilisoihpies.…

Russia experienced a surge of nationalism during three major aspects of its contemporary history that led to the modern interpretations of Russian national identity. The first of three advancements in nationalism advanced under the rule of Peter the Great, whose influences and policies evoked Russia’s potential as a Western State. His rule saw the manifestation of a united Russian consciousness that developed and strengthened internal affairs domestically, and rose as a national power on a…

From the time we are born we are fed the lies of capitalism. We are raised in a society that hides the ones that are hurt by this powerful mindset. These people are swept under the rug to be dealt with later. Johnson and Robbins have very influential ideas about capitalism. Johnson writes about the matrix of capitalist domination. In this section he tries to explain the complexities of privilege and how privileges relate to one another. Johnson takes us back to when capitalism first began to…

The Persecution of Religion in Stalinist Russia Throughout history, religion has played an important role in shaping culture, government and the economy, but it is important to also consider times when the absence of religion has done the same. Under the control of Joseph Stalin and the Communist party in the early 1920s, Russia became the first nation to institutionalize atheism. Propelled by the ideals of communism and the example of his predecessor, Stalin sought to secularize the nation and…

he was a general who fought in major battles in the Russian Civil War that followed the Revolution. The Premiere of the new country called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly referred to as the Soviet Union or USSR, was a man named Vladimir Lenin. When Lenin died on January 24, 1924, Stalin rose to power…

In Franz Kafka’s story The Metamorphosis, Gregor’s character initially parallels his sister, Grete’s, and eventually, as Grete has her own internal metamorphosis, highlights the deep shame she has by the end of the novel. Pre-Insect-Gregor, in the opening passage, awakes to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. However, throughout the story, the recurrent theme of “self-shame” is prominently steeped within the two characters. Insect-Gregor withdraws into a self-loathing recluse who…

What is Socialism? Socialism is defined as public control of property and resources. Society should produce goods and own property for the good of its own members, and if someone helped make a good, they should be allowed to share in it. The object of production should be to meet human needs. Money would disappear, everyone would take freely in what is produced, and work would be voluntary and as needed. Socialism is a direct opposite to capitalism’s ideas of individuals developing to the best…