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    Rough Draft Leon Trotsky, a very controversial idealed man, made much history in Russia and many other places around the world for his extreme beliefs and for causing many revolutions/uproars. Trotsky became very well know for these attributes and many people started to dislike him which later caused him to be exiled from Russia. After he moved to Mexico with his family but it didn't last long before his old life caught up with him. Ramon Mercader assassinated Trotsky with an ice Axe by

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    Cuban Missile Crisis almost led to the end of the Earth and life because Russia tried to put missiles in Cuba causing the U.S. to set up a blockade, and almost started WW3. Foreign Affairs There were many parts and events going on during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cold War was a war between the United States and Russia. This conflict lasted for the better part of the 1900s. During The Cold War, the United States and Russia never fired a shot at each other (Brubaker, 2001). To avoid conflict the

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    people think of Russia, they’re thoughts aren’t always positive, and rightfully so, especially with what is going on today. At certain points in Russia’s history, the country experienced much lower points, but there was always someone to bring them back up to a decent standard. One specific ruler that helped to restore Russia’s strength and image was Czar Peter I, or Peter the Great. Peter the Great became a sole ruler of Russia in 1696, made a general positive influence on Russia, and addressed

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    The much talked about Right to Information Act came into force on October 12. The Union government says the Act is revolutionary, as it opens all official departments across the country to public scrutiny. The government also claims the new law will help it share power with the humblest, and empower the weakest The Right to Information (RTI) Act is a law enacted by the Parliament of India to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens. It was passed by Parliament

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    The Kennedy Doctrine, The Cuban Missile Crisis, and the diplomatic efforts of Russia “It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union” --John Kennedy (htt8) Powerful words from the former President of the United States those words which are the framework of his doctrine concerning communism. However, what do these words

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    Wouldn't it be nice to have a secret police force that listened to every word and killed anyone the spot with no remorse? Well that pretty much sums up the KGB, they were a ruthless secret police service that worked for whoever was in power for Russia. Under the wrong control they were very destructive. In Animal Farm the dogs represented the KGB. The KGB was one of many roots of secret police. The 1st, strongest and most durable, was "CHEKA". CHEKA was originally formed in 1917, during the first

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    Monument: Anna Akhmatova in Postsocialist Russia.” South Atlantic Review. 74.2 (2009): 62–81. JSTOR. Web. 28 Feb. 2016. Written by Sarah A. Krive, from the Department of Languages at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the article, “A Transcultural Monument: Anna Akhmatova in Postsocialist Russia” (2009), argues that Akhmatova was a postsocialist poet, because she began producing her work at the end of Imperial Russia and throughout Soviet Russia, until her death in 1966. She believes that

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    Throughout the course of history, Nationalism has been by many countries and nations. Nationalism has been used by many leaders to unify their people, but Nationalism is not always used to unify. Some countries and nations have used Nationalism to divide their country or nation. Many leaders have used Nationalism to unify their country or nation, like Otto von Bismarck. Other leaders have used Nationalism to divide their country or nation, like Alexander III. Nationalism is having pride in your country

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    Animal Farm is an allegory of the period in Russian history between 1917 and 1944. It is a satirical story written in the form of an animal fable. In writing Animal Farm as a fable, George Orwell is able to present his subject in simple symbolic terms by treating the development of communism as a story that is taking place on a single farm with talking animals. The characters of Animal Farm represent figures in Russian history during the Russian Revolution. Places, objects, and events of the

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    The political relations between Ukraine and Russia as the two independent subjects of international relations were established in 1991 after the eighth December of the same year signed the Belavezha agreement between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, which marked the end of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as " subject of international law and geopolitical reality "and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. From that moment we can talk about the beginning

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