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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

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...

Russian Cinema Development

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

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...

Nursing Korean and Russian Patients and Cultural Competence

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

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...

Russian Culture in the Film Window to Paris

to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...

Ronald Donaldon's Film Thirteen Days and Conflict Theory

escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...

First Abstract Watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky

1992; 143). He stopped what he was doing and just stared at it in amazement. He then suddenly realized it was one of his paintings...

Doing Business in Russia

even less access to any goods and services other than those of the traditional culture. A class dichotomy quickly developed...

World War II Russian Politics and FDR's Role

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

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...

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...

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...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Fictional Russian Jewish Immigrant's Story

both a Russian perspective and a U.S. perspective. Scholars tell us that the intent of the Cold War was to stabilize world politi...

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 ...

Russia and Nike

In five pages law, politics, and culture are examined as each relate to the Russian market entry of Nike with strategic positionin...

Cultural Dynamics and Social Theories of Pitirim Sorokin

In six pages this research paper discusses the career and the theories developed by Russian American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin. ...