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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Overview of Ivan the Terrible

In six pages Ivan the Terrible or Ivan IV, first Russian czar, is the focus of this historical consideration. Seven sources are c...

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...

Russian and Passive Language Usage

This paper considers Russian language in an overview of how the passive is used with examples and insights provided in five pages....

World Revolutions and U.S. Policies from the 1890s until 1945

In a paper that consists of six pages the U.S. concerns that are dependent upon political ideology and geography are considered wi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

The Cold War: Causes, Treaties, and Ongoing Tensions

be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...

Evolution of the Russian Family Institition

however, in the 1930s to 1950s when the Bolshevik state worked actively towards disbanding the traditional family unit and transfo...

‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

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...

Post Soviet Business People in Russia

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

World Cultures and Family

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

Pasha and Yuri in Doctor Zhivago

In five pages the characters of Pasha and Yuri are contrasted and compared within the context of Doctor Zhivago along with an asse...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...