Vladimir Tretchikoff

• Following the Second World War, complications arose centering on the shifting of international power. The Soviet Union wanted to acquire additional territory, while the United States attempted to limit the gains desired by the soviets. This battle of ideology has resulted in an increase in National security, Diplomatic tension and Proxy wars between the two powerful nations.For over three hundred years, Russia had been controlled by an autocratic government known as the tsarist regime. This empire

The Russian Revolution of 1917 involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. It sparked the beginning of a new era in Russia that had effects on countries around the world. In the years leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the country had a succession of wars. These were, The Crimean War (1854-56), The Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), and World War I (1914-18). All of these required

Orwell effectively conveys the rise of communism in Russia throughout the book Animal Farm by the accurate elucidation of the context in the Soviet Union from 1917-1945. Orwell’s attitude and political view towards Russia is evident in his representation of the farm animals on Communist Party leaders: Napoleon and Snowball, for example, are figurations of Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky, respectively. He expresses the anthropomorphic characters of farm animals, and major events in Animal Farm such

lead by Georgy Lvov. This government was quickly overthrown by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party. Joseph Stalin, born December 1878, was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, which was created in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik revolution. They overthrew the new Russian provisional government and he was appointed the General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party’s central committee in 1922. After many years of suffering, Vladimir Lenin passed away on January 21st, 1924. After Lenin’s death

This year’s Democratic National Committee server breach attempts to compromise Hillary Clinton’s chance of becoming the first women to receive the United States presidency. The focus here will be on the motives behind the D.N.C. breach, whose systems are at risk, long and short term consequences of this breach, and how this breach could have been avoided. There are two theories on the motives behind the network breach. After the breach, there is an extreme likelihood that any system within the 2016

Jack D Sharples HSE International Conference April 2012- 3 - of Russia’s oil, has been 100 percent state-owned since its creation in 1992(Transneft, 2012).This response was part of the emergence of a broader state-capitalist model of political and economic development. Economically, this has involved increasing statecontrol over strategic sectors of the Russian economy beyond oil and gas, such as banking, electric power, the media, aviation, the automotive industry, machine- building (Pappe and

JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL HOT SPOT: Bolshevik Revolution and Taliban in Afghanistan A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO MR. TRIPLETT SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT BY Maxwell Abmas DALLAS, TEXAS MAY 12, 2017 The Islamic fundamentalist group known as the Taliban continues to act as a dominant group in Afghanistan even 14 years after the invasion by the US. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when an invasion led by the US collapsed the regime due to the Taliban providing

Orthodox Church, but, he was expelled for being a radical. After leaving the Georgian Orthodox Church, Stalin joined up with the Bolshevik revolutionaries. They were an underground group that followed the communist writings of Karl Marx and were led by Vladimir Lenin. Stalin became a leader within the Bolsheviks. He led riots and strikes and raised money by robbing banks and other crimes. Stalin became one of Lenin 's top leaders. When he was in his 30s, he took the name Stalin, from the Russian for man

Animal Farm is of course, a satirical allegory, very specifically of the Russian Revolution and of Stalin (Napoleon in the book), but more generally of revolution, the idealism of utopias, and the way in which people take control of societies founded on principles of equality. It is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based major events in the book on ones from the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party

This along with his eagerness to arrest, imprison, exile, and hang his opponents only further divided the tsar from the working class, earning him the nickname “Nicholas the Bloody” (Khrustalev and M. Steinberg 25). The Russian people no longer felt safe under the tsar’s rule. With more instances of brutality accumulating on top of one another, the 1905 Revolution was inevitable. Albeit the violent suppression of the 1905 Revolution, in the end it was regarded by revolutionaries as semi-successful