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For his role in leading the Soviet Union through WWII, one of the worst crises that the country has ever faced, Joseph Stalin is remembered as a leader who held his nation together. Stalin however, is also responsible for the deaths of millions of Soviet Union citizens, ranging in ethnicity from Polish to Russian to Ukrainian. Abuses of power such as the Great Famine of 1932-1933 resulted in the deaths of 7-8 million people, due to Stalin implementing policies of collectivism that fitted his view

The dogs involvement in Animal Farm In the beginning of the book there are nine puppies born “as soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education.” (Orwell 35). The nine dogs were not heard from until later into the book, when Napoleon needed them. George Orwell published Animal Farm in 1945, around the time of World War II. Orwell wrote the book to look back on the events that lead up to the 1917 Russian Revolution

also share the effects that the revolutions had. My main focus is to talk about the October revolution which has one of the major events that led to the execution of the royal family. I will also compare and contrast these events to the events that happened in the Shakespearian story Julius Caesar. In the light of the Russian struggle there was a Revolution called the February Revolution which came before the October revolution and dethroned Czar Nicholas II. (“1917 Russian Revolution Facts and Summary”)The

During the 1930s and 1940s there were two leaders, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, that had to have different belief systems. These two leaders grew up being taught dissimilar things; also their religious beliefs were nonidentical from one another. As Stalin and Hitler grew to be leaders, they both had different ideas to make their countries better. To do this each leader had disparate political ideologies, to treat their citizens differently, and to set goals for their own leadership, or for themselves

Catherine, II, the Great was born in Stettin, a German city on April 21, 1729 to Prince Christian August of Anhalt-Zerost and Princess Johanna Elizabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. Catherine, whose original name was Sophie Friederike-Auguste married in 1762 to the czarevitch Peter of Russia, but soon disposed of him and seized control of the government. Catherine made many great changes during her reign and made many opportunities available to the people living in her country during the time. Although she

establishing legitimacy, and caused mass desertion. Every day thousands of peasants abandoned the war front, though some historians believe less. The May 11 Declaration of Soldier’s Rights, and July 12 desertion death penalty were ineffective as well. The Government’s war, built dissent and disloyalty, which were key to the Revolution. The Government also failed to address issues of land distribution and food shortages, and the people were unsatisfied by empty promises. This created a platform

October Sky is about a teenage boy that wants to explore his options and not settle for what everyone else in his town has, especially his father. Homer Hickam discovers that he cannot seem himself following in his father’s footsteps in the coal mining business. Homer’s teacher Miss Riley sparks his interest to learn about rockets. He gets two of his friend and another guy, which is smart and knows a lot about rockets in his plan to learn how to build a rock in order to launch it into space. However

In the town of Coalwood having a dream and an ambition is very important for the younger generation coming up. Most of the males in the town end up working in the mines because that is the only place they can work because they did have their minds set on a dream to get out of the town. After seeing a rocket launched off into space Sonny believed that building rockets could get him out of Coalwood and he would not have to be in the shadow of his brother or follow in his father's footsteps by working

Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov are among the most identifiable names in early Soviet film. Their contributions to film, in the areas of montage and documentary film respectively, have helped to structure film, as we know it today. However, apart from their theoretical contributions to the field, both directors played an imperative role in Soviet film during the 1920s and 1930s. This paper examines historical revisionism within their film, how their theories of montage influenced the revisionism

In 1917, two revolutions completely changed the fabric of Russia. First, the February Russian Revolution ousted the Russian monarchy and established a Provisional Government. Then in October, a second revolution placed the Bolsheviks as the leaders of Russia, culminating the creation of the world's first communist country (Rosenburg 2009). The revolution made the Russian literary language the heritage of the entire nation (Artyukov 2013). This allowed for nations all over the world to access the