The Ukrainian revolution of February 2014 (also known as the Euro-Maidan Revolution or Revolution of Dignity Ukrainian: Революція гідності) took place after a series of violent events towards protesters in the capital of Kiev that culminated with the flight and subsequent impeachment of the then-President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. ... After a first revolution, known as the Orange Revolution in 2004, Ukraine had been mired by years of corruption, mismanagement, lack of economic growth, currency devaluation, and an inability to secure funding from public mark...

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However, Lenin's April thesis presents Marxist ideology, as he strongly emphasizes Russia's readiness for revolution as a result of WWI. ... Not only was the revolution un-Marxist in character, as David Christian discusses, it was meticulously carried out by a small group of trained revolutionaries to initiate secure control of Russia – the Military Revolutionary Committee led by Trotsky. Therefore, the validation of the October revolution in Lenin's April thesis reinforces the ideological flexibility of the Bolsheviks. ... Lenin realized that Russia was too fragile to f...

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After the February and October revolutions of 1917, the main feature of Russian healthcare was the creation of a single state medical treatment and prevention system. ... Starting in 1998, the Russian Federation Government has been implementing an annual program that provides guaranteed free medical care to Russian citizens, funded by the state budget. ... Russia's medical care system comprises both self-sufficient and poorly integrated outpatient/polyclinic, emergency, and inpatient services. ... The number of hospital beds in Russia is sufficient to meet the country's needs for in...

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During the first six months, following the Bolshevik Revolution, they led with one vision and one leader, Lenin, despite some minor debates, and followed through the vital civil war period, where survival was she only goal. ... Following the successful revolution, the first 6 months of power was to a small extent shaped by differing visions and leadership conflict, with Russia following one ideology, led by an undisputed Lenin whilst conflict arousing from the peace treaty. Since pre-revolution, the Bolsheviks had direction and a leader, provided through the April theses and was implemented ...

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Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he dealt largely with history and public affairs, and he corresponded with Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Louis XV, and most of the prominent people of the time. ... And indeed in that period of the interregnum there was very little life or light in either the orthodox Christianity of Rome or in the orthodox tame churches of Russia and of the Protestant princes. ... "This awful revolutio...

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These two poems, in fact, constitute the driving forces behind the two major patterns of attitudes of the animals in the novel, namely revolution and submissiveness. ... Through his narrative, Orwell emphasizes the similarities between the animal farm and Russia in the 20 century to unveil the duplicity of both the fictional leader Napoleon and the historical leader Stalin. ... Historically, the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution capitalized upon the Marxist principle of the "dictatorship of the proletariat " to legitimize their repression and suppression of democratic freedoms. Accordingly, ...

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For the Russian Campaign in 1812, Napoleon took 14,000 troops from the Kingdom of Holland, which ended in disaster, with only a small number of the initial troops from Holland returning. ... This then led to the Dutch welcoming the methods of the Prussians and Russians, rather than following French rule. By doing this, Napoleon would fail as being seen as a liberator following the arrival of Prussian and Russian rule in 1813. ... In order to gain troops, Napoleon made vague promises of potential independence for Poland away from Austria, Prussia and Russia. ... For the 1812 campaign in which t...

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Subsequent to Russian sound film revolution, Soviet cinema was swept by a vibrant culture called formalism. ... Moreover, this formalistic expression shaped the remarkable developments in film theory and provided a new norm for distinctive and creative production of films by Russian producers during the 1920s. ... By constructing montages of various daily life images of the Russians, he was able to draw realities that are unnoticed by the imperfect human eyes. ... In short, Vertov has created Kino-eye to observe movements in the lives of Russians which then was effectively made into montages ...

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However, if such offences were committed on a large scale in a non-democratic country there still remains the threat of popular unrest and revolution which helps to keep the regime in check. ... Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution, where the party sought legitimacy as defenders of the revolution and then subsequently leading the people towards their goal, whether the people wanted it or not. ...

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The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. ...

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