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First World War and Rivalries

In five pages the national rivalries between Austria Hungary, Russia, France, and Germany are examined in terms of how they may ha...

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Organized Crime

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

The Impact of Great Men During Times of Revolution

This paper addresses the revolutions that took place in France, Russia, and the US. The author argues that brave individuals play...

The Impact of Perspective on Memories of World War II

This 5 page paper discusses current accounts of the Second World War coming out of Japan, Russia and Poland. The writer argues tha...

American Explorer John Ledyard

In five pages the eighteenth century Pacific explorations of John Ledyard are considered as are his expulsion from Russia after at...

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...

Fifteenth Century Religious Art in France and Russia

the quality of lace. The faces and hands of these icons appear almost as burnished leather, but that may be due either to the age...

Postwar Communism and its Spread

In four pages this paper examines how communism spread from Russia to elsewhere following the Second World War. Six sources are c...

Czar Ivan IV a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible

He started out well, but then absolute power began to corrupt absolutely (Gerard ppg). Significance/Contribution The speech that...

Russia and the Impact of Khrushchev's 'Destalinization'

In eleven pages the efforts of Nikita Krushchev to 'destalinize' Russia and their effects on the people are examined. There are t...

A Primer for Canadian Travel in Moscow

Canadians traveling in Russia should expect to be shocked by the lack of governmental infrastructure. This is especially true as i...

U.S. and Russian Nuclear Proliferation Interest Proposal

In five pages this paper discusses nuclear proliferation interests as they relate to the United States and Russia with treaty sugg...

Investment Project in Russia

In five pages this paper discusses the risks and rewards a global consultant must assess in considering whether or not an investme...

Russia Sales and IBM

In six pages this paper answers questions having to do with IBM's sale of a super computer and 16 computer work stations to a nucl...

Russian Organized Crime

to the Russian Mafia are members of an organization that has "hundreds of gangs" and its membership numbers in the thousands (Meye...

The Polish Free Elections and the Breakup of the USSR

control over the military.1 Thus, the nation faced dual rule, and was (and remains) in transition. This is relevant to our questio...

Marie Antoinette and Alexandra Feodorovna

the Columbia Encyclopedia. It says, quite succinctly, that "Alexandra Feodorovna, 1872-1918," was the last Russian czarina and the...

1917 Petrograd, Russia Fictional Story

the pressure and approved wage hikes, however, they quickly evaporated as inflation crept into the warring city. Gordei and his c...

Russia Corruption

malady that the World Bank proclaimed corruption as the most serious detriment to Third World economic progress (Zuzowski 9). Rus...

Website Analysis: Ivan the Terrible

mijn werk als architect. - Laatst bijgewerkt 08-05-2006" (Klaas Vermaas Portfolio Website, 2006). The text, which is in Dutch, app...

America And Russia: Tensions And Impact Upon Global Community

Russia possessed considerable political strength, there has remained an unsettled climate between the two nations ever since. As ...

Russia Under Putin

Putin has been methodical in the manner in which he has insured that Russias energy resources are under state control. Having acco...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

Vladimir Lenin vs. John Maynard Keynes

In five pages this research paper examines how Russia continues to languish under Leninism's consequences while Western Europe has...

Border Guards of Russia, Past and Present

do all that was possible to prevent Soviet citizens from leaving the country. To leave the Soviet Union without official permissi...

Brief Overview of 5 Monarchies of Western Civilization

territories" a process that wasnt stopped until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). As to the various empe...

Russian Modernization and 'the Liberator' Peter the Great

and embarked on a plan of self-improvement that would later define his leadership (Riechers, 2003). An impatient man who had tire...

Nuclear Energy Waste Disposal and the Role of Russia

twenty-eight people died within four months from radiation or thermal burns, nineteen have since died, approximately nine more dea...

Russian Visual Art and Influence of the West

as the line of demarcation between the East and the West. It is important to point out that our concept of...