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Essays 181 - 210

Soviet Empire's Collapse and the Role of Russian Nationalism

have had to "rely on their own influences" (Hendley, 1997, p. 228) as a means by which to conduct business. These laws, which wer...

Art Concepts of Kitch and Avant-Garde

also set the price tag on their works. Vast sums of public and private money have since changed hands to stock American houses and...

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

In five pages this report focuses upon Communist author John Reed's perceptions regarding the 1917 Russian Revolution and Bolshevi...

1917's Bolshevik Revolution and Terror

were not a! unique episode in Soviet history, but rather part of a continuing cycle of terror. This regime did not, in fact, dis...

Self Destructive Downfall of Czarist Russia

In five pages this paper argues that in 1917 the Russian Empire disintegration was the result of its own collapse rather than an o...

Ivan the Terrible, Oprichnina, and the Secret Police

In ten pages this paper examines Russian Czar Ivan's brutal use of police force in Russia during the 16th century. Ten sources ar...

Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev

In ten pages this paper presents a biographical profile of former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a critical assessment of his...

Modern Russia and the Role of the Russian Orthodox Church

In six pages this paper examines modern Russia and the role the Russian Orthodox Church has played past and present. Five sources...

Central Asia Today

the Soviet political, governmental, and cultural totalitarianism began to dissolve. The rapidly shifting balances of the 1990s, th...

Russian Industrialization and Joseph Stalin

In six pages this paper examines how Stalin's ruthlessness was responsible for the 1930s' economic revival of the Soviet Union. F...

Family's Role in Nigerian, Russian, and Mexican Cultures

Family and its importance to these world cultures are examined in a paper consisting of five pages. Six sources are cited in the ...

Russian Author Alexander Pushkin's Life and Influence

the real qualities of the Russian language" (Pushkin, quoted in Lord, 43). Nonetheless, it is clear that the Russian style Pushki...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The life of the famed Russian author up to 1995 is examined in this research paper consisting of ten pages. There are three bibli...

Revolutionary Mathematician Solomon Lefschetz

In five pages Russian American Solomon Lefschetz is featured in this overview of his life and U.S. mathematical accomplishments. ...

A Biography 'Pavlova, 1881 to 1931' by A.H. Franks

This paper contains five pages and discusses the biography based on the life of a Russian ballerina and explores how successes, fa...

Russian Communism's Fall and the Role of Mikhail Gorbachev

In eight pages this paper discusses the collapse of Russian communism in an assessment of the role played by Mikhail Gorbachev's G...

Was Vladimir Lenin Totalitarian or Pragmatic?

In eleven pages the post Russian Revolution role of Lenin is examined in order to determine whether or not he was more pragmatic o...

Russian Federation Trading of Chemical and Nuclear Weapons

In five pages this paper discusses how the new democratic Russia will address nuclear and chemical weapons issues in terms of poli...

Muscular Massage and Russian Electro Stimulation

In five pages this paper discusses how athletes as well as nonathletes can benefit from the muscle massage known as Russian Electr...

Conspiracy Theory Underpinnings As They Relate to Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss

In thirty pages this paper examines the factors that led to Alger Hiss's conviction as Russian spy by considering various pertinen...

Cause and Effects of the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution

In five pages these revolutions are contrasted and compared in terms of their causes and the outcomes which resulted. There are 6...

Russian Campaign Could Not Have Been Won by Napoleon

In eight pages this paper discusses the 'backwardness' theory of William Fuller Jr. in a presentation of the argument that there w...

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In five pages the author's Russian atheism and socialism conflict is examined within the context of the novel's 6 characters. The...

Faust by Johann von Goethe and Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In eight pages these German and Russian works are contrasted and compared regarding their depiction of life's 'dark side.' Six so...

Life, Moral Judgments, and 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...

The Theme of the Old and New in Tugenev's Fathers and Sons

oppression. They are drunken, thieving, grasping, dishonest and completely ignorant. They would rather break a machine than run it...

'Ultimate' Russian Poet Velimir Khlebnikov

of the century the first Russian Futurists, Matyushin, Guro, Kamnesky, the Burliuks, Kruchenykh, Mayakovsky, and Khlebnikov felt t...

U.S. Organized Crime Groups

New York (1998). Like Italian mafia cases, the FBI targets Russian bosses for prosecution. Not long ago they were able to imprison...

The F.B.I. and Its Efforts to Combat Organized Crime

This 5 page paper discusses the measures that the FBI is taking to combat organized crime. The writer discusses such policies as h...

Philosophies of Anzia Yezierska and Frederick Douglass

In six pages the similar philosophies of Russian Jewish author Anzia Yezierska of New York's Lower East Side and freed slave Frede...