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Avant Garde Artistic Movement and its 'Desert'

and Cubism with a radical social philosophy (Giedion-Welcker 342). Malevich had founded the Supramatist artistic movement in 1913...

Similarities between the Reigns of Stalin and the Tsars

Stalin was so determined to control the socialist culture because he did not want to create any potential opposition to his rule. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Central Asia Today

the Soviet political, governmental, and cultural totalitarianism began to dissolve. The rapidly shifting balances of the 1990s, th...

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...

World Cultures and Family

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

Post Soviet Business People in Russia

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

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...

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...

Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev

In ten pages this paper presents a biographical profile of former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a critical assessment of his...

Modern Russia and the Role of the Russian Orthodox Church

In six pages this paper examines modern Russia and the role the Russian Orthodox Church has played past and present. Five sources...

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...

The Rite of Spring by Composer Igor Stravinsky

In six pages this radical 1913 Russian musical ballet is examined in terms of its composer's revolutionary vision and the extreme ...

Internist of the Future

In three pages this essay considers a Russian medical student's desire to seek an Internal Medicine degree in a discussion of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A History of Nationalism in Russia

of communist rule may appear to be an interruption in that long history, it was actually a logical stage in Russias development. U...

Comparative Analysis of Russian Theatrical Giants Vsevolod Meyerhold and Konstantin Stanislavsky

This paper consists of fourteen pages and compares the lives and contrasts the styles of direction represented by Russian theatric...

Contrasting and Comparing Russian Serfs and American Slaves

This paper contains nine pages and discusses the similarities and serious differences between the Russian serfs and the American s...

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In five pages the author's Russian atheism and socialism conflict is examined within the context of the novel's 6 characters. The...

Faust by Johann von Goethe and Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In eight pages these German and Russian works are contrasted and compared regarding their depiction of life's 'dark side.' Six so...

Life, Moral Judgments, and 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...

The Theme of the Old and New in Tugenev's Fathers and Sons

oppression. They are drunken, thieving, grasping, dishonest and completely ignorant. They would rather break a machine than run it...

Conspiracy Theory Underpinnings As They Relate to Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss

In thirty pages this paper examines the factors that led to Alger Hiss's conviction as Russian spy by considering various pertinen...

Russian Campaign Could Not Have Been Won by Napoleon

In eight pages this paper discusses the 'backwardness' theory of William Fuller Jr. in a presentation of the argument that there w...