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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

History of Russia in a Combination of 4 Papers

kingdom, ruled by Vladimir, stretched all the way to the Black Sea (History, 2005). Yaroslav the Wise succeeded Vladimir, and und...

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...

Vera Figner's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Radical Russian Intelligentsia Images

with what respect that principle is surrounded" (Turgenev, 1996, p. 7). Although the...

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...

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...

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...

Russian Revolution and Its Impact

1969). When news of the executive of the tsars family reached London, there were "few tears shed" (Dukes, 2003, p. 9). However, wi...

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....

Russian Cinema Development

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

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...

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...

Russian Ballet and Musical Development and the Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution

five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...

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...

The Underlying Reasons for the Russian Revolution

communism implemented in Russia was not really what Marx had written about at all. In part, this is due to the scant amount of inf...