He was faced with the following two problems that had been facing the Russian Empire for centuries: the need to centralize the vast Russian terrain and the need to solve the backwardness of Russian culture and technology. ... Most importantly, the people were too uneducated and the culture was so removed from the rest of Europe that they had no clear notion of liberty, or how to obtain emancipation. ... Meanwhile, external factors in Europe were forcing change. ... Russia was in dire need of a strong ruler, with European relations in friction and its internal strife at its height. ... He w...

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Gordon concludes: - "Most crimes in this country share a single important similarity - they represent rational responses to the competitiveness and inequality of life in a capitalist society" Milton Mankoff follows the same line of rationing as Gordon does, but draws comparison on the USA and Western Europe, he shows how different economic perspectives (USA-Monetarist, Western Europe-Keynesian) can through giving more to the working classes can stem the flow of crime, since a Keynesian economy advocates a minimum wage, and makes room for a fair we...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Georgians possessed their own culture and language which was very different from the official Russian language of the empire, and the young Stalin only began learning Russian when he was nine years old. ...

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Stalin's regime involved a series of plans for change with regards to the Soviet economy and culture. ... "When this proved impossible to implement it retreated into a more pragmatic and cautious approach " which led Stalin to seeking to personalise the political system and transform the economy.v This indeed had a profound effect on society and culture in the Soviet Union. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... As Hitler took more power in Europe these arguments became more and more convincing to a country faced with a barrage of anti-Communist resentment from the capitalist states, and were justified when in 1941, Hitler broke his agreement with Stalin and mounted an invasion on the USSR. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate