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A Russian Correctional System Overview

caters to the needs of prisoners. That said, conditions have become rather dismal of late, but Russias current problems may be mor...

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...

Vera Figner's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Radical Russian Intelligentsia Images

with what respect that principle is surrounded" (Turgenev, 1996, p. 7). Although 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...

History of Russia in a Combination of 4 Papers

kingdom, ruled by Vladimir, stretched all the way to the Black Sea (History, 2005). Yaroslav the Wise succeeded Vladimir, and und...

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 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...

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 Cinema Development

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

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...

Notes of a Red Guard by Eduard Dune and Bolshevism's Working Class Appeal

life because of the tales my father told. Each day his return home would be accompanied by stories of what had happened at the fa...

Brief on National Security: Russia

domestically and internationally. --- Slide 3: Background The Russian Federation is the largest country in the world 139 mill...

Comparing United Methodist to Russian Orthodoxy

"in the sacrament of Confession with a priest" ("The Sacraments, 2010). As with many Protestant sects, the United Methodist Chur...

1917's Russian Revolution

In seven pages this report discusses the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the events that inspired it with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevi...

French and Russian Revolution

fought and ruled over by many different people, most notably ethnic German nobles, Poland, Sweden, and finally Tsarist Russia" (Li...

Miami Beach and the Russian Mob

Fontainebleau Hotel (Owen, 2003). In early centuries, Florida was home to smugglers and pirates, so it shouldnt come as a surprise...

How the Russian Revolution Changed the Face of Terrorism

Terrorism has wielded a formidable presence since mankinds earliest confrontations with one another. Acts...

Soviet History - A Discussion

Stupidity! Ignore this fraud, Kolya. The aristocracy always try to paint themselves as fundamentally similar to everyday humans su...

Provincialism: Gogol, Chekhov

Using Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls and Anton Chekhov's The Duel, the writer discusses how each author addresses the topic of Russian...

Pushkin's Most Successful Prose

Pushkin was a Russian poet who eventually began writing prose. This essay examines and analyzes a very successful work of prose en...

Writing in English, a Russian ELL

This paper pertains to the problems confronting a Russian English Language Learner and how they were addressed. Three pages in len...

Russian Issues, Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography pertains to two sources on Russia. One of them focuses on the Sochi Olympics and the other is on Russi...

Sochi Olympics, Conspiracy Theory

This essay concerns an argument that presents a conspiracy theory, which pertains to the twin suicide bombings that occurred one m...

Iran and the United States Joint Relationship

This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the Us and Iran need to cooperate in order to maintain the Us power in the Middle Ea...

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...

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...

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...