October 2001

Sahmoud 1 Mahmoud Sahmoud Mr. Steven Negrete November 27th 2015 Class Moe The Reasons for the Success of the Bolsheviks and the Outcomes for Their Success The Bolsheviks played quite a successful role in the October Revolution. There were many reasons that helped the Bolsheviks seize power and transform Russia into a modern socialist society namely, the weakness of the provisional government, Lenin’s great leadership, Trotsky’s control, and finally, the Bolsheviks’ successful propaganda. These

The Romanovs were a dynasty that reigned Russia for three centuries between the years of 1613 to 1917. The Romanovs had a prominent role in Russia ruling as any other would following custom however, once the last tsar took over the empire things began to take a turn for the worst. There are several factors that could take responsibility for the fall of the Romanovs which include: resistance from the people, incompetent rulers, political and economic complications that began to arise. The tsars were

anti-religious propaganda which banned church programs from television and led to a decline in church power and influence. The Russian Orthodox Church supported the White Army which in the end was the losing side of the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution. The Soviet government saw the church as a "counter-revolutionary" organization. The Soviet government also believed the church had a great influence on society. Even though the Soviet Union claimed religious tolerance, the government still

Leon Trotsky, originally known as Lev Davidovich Bronstein, was born November 7th in the year 1879. Born to a Jewish-Russian family of wealthy but illiterate farmers, he was sent to school in Odessa by age nine. Although he was enrolled in a German school, during his studies there the school was “Russified” during the Imperial Government’s policy of Russification. The environment of the town of Odessa contributed greatly to the development of Trotsky’s revolutionary ideas and his international outlook

The vast majority of people regard Adolf Hitler as the worst human being of all time. This title is well deserved, as Hitler himself was responsible for starting a world war and killing over eleven million people. However, there was a dictator much more ruthless than Hitler. He ruled with an iron fist, and had an unquenchable thirst for power. He was responsible for almost double the amount of fatalities than even Hitler himself. This man was Joseph Stalin. The actions of Stalin during his early

Influential to The Rocket Boy Has anyone ever been influential to your life? Has it pushed you to pursue for your dreams? In Homer H. Hickam Jr.’s Rocket Boys, Sonny was inspired from his dad and Wernher von Braun to pursue his dreams and follow it to build rockets. In Rocket Boys, Sonny’s dad has always wanted him to become a miner to follow in his footsteps, but when he found out that his son wanted to build rockets, he wasn’t fond of it and didn’t support Sonny until his last Rocket launch

For the Russian Revolution the rise of evil has a beginning, stemming from the deaths of millions of The Great War rose a man to power, who would later control through terror and fear the scared huddling mass of his people. No man is responsible for so much death, so much betrayal other than that of Joseph Stalin, who took power after the Russian Revolution, or Red Revolution of 1917. The reason for the breakdown of the government and the uprising of the Bolshevik party that would later spell the

Nicholas II saw himself as a bulwark against democratic progress, emphasizing the tradition of the Russian Monarchy. This is evident in the image he tried to uphold through his clothing along with the extravagant 1913 tricentenary celebration of the Romanov Dynasty in the midst of dissent. The working class were growing tired of the conservative “traditional” Russian policymaking, and the Tsar denied them any forms of democratic reform, further alienating himself from his people. The people of Russia

The 20th century would see the rise and fall of many civilizations, empires, and nations. Arguably none of these republics were greater than the Soviet Union. Nor, any revolutionary as influential as the Soviet Union’s founder, Vladimir Lenin. This communist nation stretched over two continents and into the middle east and had risen from the ashes of another empire. If it had not have been for a revolutionary born on April 22, 1870 the world today would be a completely unrecognizable place. Vladimir

St. Basil’s Cathedral considered a famous Russian symbol with its history accompanied by several legends. St Basil’s Cathedral is an atypical red brick building next to the famous Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The cathedral is easily identifiable by its ten distinct domes each of diverse color, shape, and size (“Moscow’s Red Square”). The unusual and vivid multicolored exterior of St. Basil’s Cathedral offers visitors a view of past Russian architecture that has endured through the centuries. The