Russia Case Study

Russia, as a country, has had a long and proud history. However, for a small time starting in 1917, things started to take a turn for the worse. There was widespread famine, disease, and killing by the instituted government. There was also no Russia. Instead, there was the glorious United Soviet Socialist Republics, or the USSR. This new country did not come around peacefully, but instead under the 1917 Russian Revolution and the revolting communist Bolsheviks. The Russian people were not in a better condition after the Russian revolution due to Stalin’s leadership of his country; the reason being the GULAGs that Stalin was sending his people to, the communes that the peasants were sent to, and the disastrous effects of his five year plans.

During the mid 19th century the Russian empire was at a peak, being the largest country in the world and having a large diverse population. By the late 19th century into the coming 20th century the Russian Empire had a down turn the large diverse population was becoming to separated into the separate identity groups, widespread famines, religious persecution, an outbreak of cholera that contributed to three million deaths in Russia (Sightseen), and political situations that would continue for years to come and eventually tear the Russian Empire apart.

· The Russian Federation covers a large area (more than 10,000 kilometers east-west and more than 2500 kilometers north-south); it takes a full week to travel by train from St. Petersburg in the west to Vladivostok in the east. Russia is also predominantly northern, with nearly half its territory north of 60 degrees north latitude. Winters are generally long and cold, which keeps most ports and navigable rivers frozen or impassable for many months each year. With few peninsulas and with coastlines that are frozen for most of the year, Russia has

Reading the statistics of this article without knowing the title would lead one to believe that they were reading about a third world country, not a country that is so technologically advanced that the United States was engaged in a race to space with it. Though this article is filled with a plethora of statistics, there are a few which illustrate the bottom line succinctly. Essentially, there is an alarming population decline in Russia (Eberstadt, 2009). Alarming in its own right, even more disturbing are the reasons for this decline which are set forth in this article (Eberstadt, 2009). The gist of the situation is that the mortality rate is higher than the birth rate (Eberstadt, 2009). There are many factors contributing to this situation but a high rate of alcohol consumption among those of child bearing age is a significant factor (Eberstadt, 2009).

Russian Federation has a long and interesting history. Many different events the structure and development of the country. Nowadays, Russia plays one of the most important roles in our world. Russia is located at the intersection of different cultures and contains multinational population and ethno-cultural diversity. Russia is an interesting country to discuss its issues of ethnicity and religion, try to predict the future development and economics of the country. How different country’s issues such as class distinction, equity and equality, race, religion, nationalism and other political variables are solved or considered by the state at least. The main goal of this work is to show weaknesses and struggles which Russia faces on the road

The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 brought with it a plethora of changes that shaped the population of the newly formed socialist society. The once imperial nation faced a great deal of emigration following the drastic change in leadership and politics of the nation. Following the civil war, some “two hundred thousand …Russians who escaped from Russia after the 1917 Revolution, spreading westward across Europe,” creating their own communities across the continent (Bennett). A

The Russian empire, at its peak held a landmass occupying almost 9 million square miles across 3 continents (Eastern Europe, Asia, and modern day Alaskan territory) and was rivaled in size only by the British and Mongol empires of olden times. Officially founded in 1721 after a warring period with the neighboring Swedish, Ottoman and Persian Empires and the signing of the Treaty of Nystad. This mighty Tsar ruled land survived as a global power for nearly 4 centuries. Unfortunately, as history has shown time and time again, no Empire, no matter how large or influential, may last forever. Internal instabilities and a waning support of the people meant the once glorious Empire was on its last legs, and soon the time arrived when a “restructuring” was on the horizon.

Russian culture is defined by its ethnic diversity, religion, music, arts, and literature which are admired and respected all over the world. The country currently has close 190 ethnic groups composed of Tartar, Ukrainian, Bashkir, Chuvash, and Chechen descent (Bradford, n.d). These ethnic groups have contributed their language to the Russian society among other things. Religion can be considered one of the most important

Through Russia’s expansion into the countries surrounding its borders, the growing ethnic population in Russia grew along with the animosity felt towards the Romanovs. Since the 1500s the Russians had been invading their neighbouring countries, but the

Russia is the world’s largest county in land mass; it spans the whole of Europe and Asia, and its 17,098,242 square kilometres. Also 84% of the population of the country are peasants and it was very multicultural, this is a problem because they are uneducated and only have a small skill set meaning they generally work on farms. Also there are many different beliefs so everyone wanted different things which mean that any decisions made would only make a small group of people happy and all the rest wouldn’t be content. In source 4 it clearly shows just how nationally diverse Russia was at this time at it is also displayed in source 1 where it says “if it were a country it would have had a dominant ethnic group of Russians and would have a single language, religion and culture. It had no such thing”.

Russia is an independent and strong power. She has the right and the strength not to want to be the eternal handmaiden of states which are more developed economically…She is proud by her great might, by which she jealously guards not only the political but also the economic independence of her empire. She wants to be a metropolis herself. (Witte, 9)

One of the events that contributed to the changes to the Russian population was World

Russia is a huge landmass and covers a vast amount of the earth’s surface area. Being so large, Russia contains a huge variety of different geographical features. There are several mountains, rivers, bodies of water, climate zones, and population centers in Russia. Most of the development in Russia is located in its core area, east of the Ural Mountains. There are several countries around Russia that used to be parts of a larger union called The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, however, in 1991, the USSR broke apart into several other independent states. The new states that were formed are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and

The Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian denomination in the world [5]. It was the driving religion in the region for centuries, from the Roman and Byzantine Empires up until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. The Soviet Union became the governing nation at that point, and supported atheism in the place of the traditional Eastern Orthodoxy. As such, the religion suffered for decades, and has only begun to reassert its dominance in the years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Between 1991 and 2008, the number of Russian adults who identify as Orthodox rose from 31 to 72 percent

Russia, known by most as the Russian Federation, is a federal state in Eurasia. Russia is the largest country in the world at 17,075,200 square kilometres by surface area, covering more than one eighth of Earth 's inhabited land, and the ninth most populous, with over 146.6 million people as of end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the East, with almost eight-tenths of the population living within the European region of Russia. Russia 's capital, Moscow is one of the largest cities in Europe and the world. Its ohter major urban cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.