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Folk and Jazz Influences Upon Igor Stravinsky's Compositions

In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...

Chechnya and Human Rights

2004). Their return was due to the fact that Stalin had died in 1953 and the "deportees were repatriated in 1956, and the republic...

Socialism as Envisioned by Stalin and Gorbachev

This paper examines the ways that Gorbachev basically destroyed the socialist vision created by Stalin. The author addresses the ...

Conflicted Nationalism and the New Russian State

In six pages this paper discusses globalization and its impacts upon the new Russian state's ethnic problems and nationalism issue...

World Cultures and Family

according to the modernization perspective of womens current roles (1291). This perspective posits that the status of women is en...

Post Soviet Business People in Russia

the means of such barbarism, those who were "intellectually undisciplined and culturally unrefined" (Anonymous 20eorteg.html) woul...

Modern Russia and Capitalism

up and began laying the foundations of a more modern capitalist state. Of course, that type of capitalism was decimated by...

Central Asia Today

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Russia and the Influence of Mongol Culture

In five pages this paper examines the Mongol invasion of Russia led by Great Khan Ogodei and its impact upon Russian culture. Fiv...

Post Perestroika Russian Women

This paper examines the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika reforms on Russian women in ten pages. Eight sources are cited ...

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...

Russian Imperialism and the Warsaw Pact

In five pages this paper examines the Warsaw Pact of 1955 within the context of Russian imperialism. Five sources are cited in th...

A History of Nationalism in Russia

of communist rule may appear to be an interruption in that long history, it was actually a logical stage in Russias development. U...

Russian Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Russian socialism has evolved over time. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this evolution is particularly evident. ...

Collapse of the Soviet Union and Russian Nationalism

the "imperial" center of the Soviet Union. In the late 1980s as nationalistic feelings in the satellite republics propelled these ...

Contrasting and Comparing Russian Serfs and American Slaves

This paper contains nine pages and discusses the similarities and serious differences between the Russian serfs and the American s...

Assessment of the Industrialization of Josef Stalin

In six pages this research paper assesses the pros and cons of Stalin's Russian industrialization. Five sources are cited in the ...

Comparative Analysis on the Legal Reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses constitutional and 'Rule of Law' as each pertains to Gorbachev and Yeltin's Russian...

Boris Yeltsin from a Machiavellian Perspective

to order--cruelty, deception, and force were all justified in his view if these forces accoplished the desired goals. In wielding ...

Views of Mikhail Gorbachev by Russians and Americans

In five pages this paper considers the very contrasting views of Mikhail Gorbachev by his fellow Russians as a destroyer of their ...

Soviet Union and the Economy of Russia Before and After its Collapse

In forty eight pages this paper presents an historical overview of the Russian economy from the days of Peter the Great to the Sov...

Topography and Geography of the Commonwealth of Independent States Republics

In nine pages this paper examines the topography and geography of Commonwealth of Independent States the Russian Federation, Azerv...

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...