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Arkady Shevchenko's Breaking With Moscow

days later that the world learned that Arkady Shevchenko had defected to the United States. In 1957, Arkady Shevchenko, a Commu...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

Cold War and the Russian KGB

Russian and U.S. Intelligence alike were characterized by two distinct components. These were technology and people. Sometimes i...

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...

A Tribute to the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Who Brought Home the Medal

historical events. Instead there is an interplay between them, circumstance, and other major and minor players. At the time of t...

Russian Immigrant Outpatient Treatment for Alcoholism

in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...

The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Their Autobiographical Elements

at first but find increasing happiness and fulfillment as their relationship deepens over time. The desperation and despair of one...

Russia and Oligarchs as a Possible Force for Democracy

manage Russias vast territory, the awkward administrative structure inherited from the failed USSR, and hundreds of divergent ethn...

Student Social Work Case Study Assessment

extent challenged when her cousin decided to get married. Up until that point, Ludmilla had created and lived a life where at leas...

Kim Chernin's In My Mother's House

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

Statesmanship in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

victory, not a French one" (Bell 221). Undoubtedly, Tolstoys anger was also influenced by the fact that he had recently been fight...

Russian Politics and the New Cabinet of Vladimir Putin

his second term (Bush and Brady, 2004). This is because the move swept away the last vestiges of the Boris Yeltsin administration...

Israel and Organized Crime

In five pages this paper examines such topics as money laundering in a consideration of the Russian mafia and Israel's organized c...

Russian Cinema Development

and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out fo...

Russian Society and the Effect of Computers

as rapidly as was expected. There isnt enough interest right now. That could be changing, however, as the last few months have s...

Russian History's Inconsistencies and Dichotomies

Great," 2003). Peter the Great was somewhat obsessed with creating a Russia that was separate and apart from Asia as well. His St....

Cultural Migration and the Russian 'Old Believers'

the Psalter prepared by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Nikon, who began to modify traditional beliefs in favor of a...

Experiences of Foreign Workers in Stalinist Russia

1991). In addition to a life-long love of engineering, Witkin appears to have had a great concern for justice and a passion for f...

Catherine the Great's Political Perspectives

into began and ended with the Russian court. She did not ascend to power overnight; she had eighteen years to observe how the bus...

Russian Culture and Sports

that, in the past, has been known for their incredible athletes and perhaps Russia more than any other nation has always related a...

British and Russian Intelligence Systems A Comparative Analysis

down with the downfall of the Soviet Union, and were reorganized several times during the 1990s. Its primary strength is in its i...

They Did Not Expect Him by Russian Artist Repin

religious themes or other such esoteric spiritual works. Repin sought to bring real life into his artwork. One way that he...

Starbucks and Russian Expansion

customers can expect to find Starbucks kiosks at hospitals, smaller office buildings and other places lacking enough traffic to su...

Russian Emancipator or Enslaver Peter the Great?

whether enslavement or emancipation resulted is the fact that Peter the Greats reactions were both shaped and aided by another imp...

Novels Featuring Russian Society and Culture

story we have "Yevgeny Vassilyitch Bazarov, a nihilistic young medical school graduate and Arkadys closest friend. Arrogant and ru...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Russian Systems of Intelligence

have occurred simultaneously and this significantly increases the difficulty of counteracting espionage activities (2005). Recent...

Analyzing Jewish Russians Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue by Sascha Goluboff

people there were often at odds with one another based upon the perceptions that existed regarding the different groups. It was a...

'Ultimate' Russian Poet Velimir Khlebnikov

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

Russian Ballet Music of Composer Peter Illich Tchaikovsky

In five pages this paper examines Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and 'Swan Lake in terms of the musical creation and performance. ...