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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The F.B.I. and Its Efforts to Combat Organized Crime

This 5 page paper discusses the measures that the FBI is taking to combat organized crime. The writer discusses such policies as h...

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...

Muscular Massage and Russian Electro Stimulation

In five pages this paper discusses how athletes as well as nonathletes can benefit from the muscle massage known as Russian Electr...

AT&T, Rostelecom, and British Telecom Telecommunication Companies

In thirteen pages these American, Russian, and British telecommunications companies are contrasted and compared in terms of US GAA...

Anastasia and the Anna Anderson Riddle

the Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, being invited to see the patient. The Grand Duchess pulled the bedsheet off the patient and said ...

A Biography 'Pavlova, 1881 to 1931' by A.H. Franks

This paper contains five pages and discusses the biography based on the life of a Russian ballerina and explores how successes, fa...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The life of the famed Russian author up to 1995 is examined in this research paper consisting of ten pages. There are three bibli...

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...

Background Ideas and Outline for the Paper Looking at the Potential Impact on Margin Trading In Russia

to allow trading to take place in this way? It is argued that margin trading was a contributory factor to the great depression in...

Pushkin/Moor of Peter the Great

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

Was The Trial Of The Rosenbergs Fair And Just

he who delivered a sentence of death (Aiuto, n.d.). The prosecutor was Irving H. Saypol, who had also prosecuted Alger Hiss and o...

The Death Of Alexander Litvinenko

President Vladimir Putin (The Guardian, 2006; VOA English Service, Traces, 2006). John Henry, who is a toxicologist, said that Li...

Doing Business in Russia

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

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...

Soviet History - A Discussion

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

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...

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...

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...

Social Expression in Art

conditions of poverty during their particular reconstruction. Clearly such a time would evoke many forms of creative artistic expr...

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...

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...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...