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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

Magna and the Potential Acquisition of GM's European Interests

first glance this may not appear to offer many advantages, the central and eastern European car market is performing badly at the ...

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 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...

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...

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...

Russian Cinema Development

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

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...

Soviet History - A Discussion

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Self-Evaluation Paper: Diversity Identity

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the authors diversity identity. This paper includes the authors diversity groups such as R...

Italian and Russian Organized Crime

In relationship to Italian organized crime the story is quite different for it is essentially based in a very rich and long...

The Purpose of Film Montage

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...