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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...

Central Asia Today

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 Intelligence and Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky

writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...

Russian Society and the Effect of Computers

as rapidly as was expected. There isnt enough interest right now. That could be changing, however, as the last few months have s...

Soviet Experiment by Suny, the Leadership of Vladimir Lenin and the Dictatorship of Joseph Stalin

methods were condemned after his death. The year of 1917 was a very tumultuous one in Russia as it not...

Historical Aspects of Russia, Austria, and France Between 1815 and 1919

out of Hitlers stated aim to restore greatness to Germany after the humiliation inflicted by the Treaty of Versailles, and the wea...

Arkady Shevchenko's Breaking With Moscow

days later that the world learned that Arkady Shevchenko had defected to the United States. In 1957, Arkady Shevchenko, a Commu...

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. ...

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 ...

Wassily Kandinsky's Artistic Relevance

a great deal of value in it. Some artists clearly understood abstract art. At the same time, it is important to note that the styl...

4 Student Supplied Scenarios Involving Organizational Communication

or interpersonal environments" (Kaye, 1996, p. 67). Scenario #2 - Corporate news to multiple sites Tom Peters stated: "Communica...

Securities Portfolios in Russian Banks/A Research Proposal

in order to learn from the strings and avoid any perceived weaknesses or errors. Dependent on the type and length of the project t...

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...

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 ...

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...

Russia and Democracy

status (Hollander). Nevertheless, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, there were immediate moves to plunge into the new form of ...

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...

Assessment of the Industrialization of Josef Stalin

In six pages this research paper assesses the pros and cons of Stalin's Russian industrialization. Five sources are cited in the ...

Comparative Analysis on the Legal Reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses constitutional and 'Rule of Law' as each pertains to Gorbachev and Yeltin's Russian...

Boris Yeltsin from a Machiavellian Perspective

to order--cruelty, deception, and force were all justified in his view if these forces accoplished the desired goals. In wielding ...