Niccolo Machiavelli, writer of The Prince, categorizes a prince through their capability to bend and change the laws to his advantage, their ability to instill fear through cruelty treatment towards their people, and their aptitude for maintaining the state. ... In "The Prince," Machiavelli states that "A wise ruler, therefore, cannot and should not keep his word", to which Putin has applied to Russia by changing the laws to adjust to his needs" (48). ... On page 45 of "The Prince," Machiavelli also claims that "a prince must not worry about the reproach of cruelty " and Vladimir has certai...

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When the Mongol army approached a clan on the eastern Kievan Rus border, the clan asked the princes for assistance. ... The veche was responsible for things such as law making and deciding the fates of the local princes. ... After a somewhat calm period, the darugi began to shift the responsibility of collecting taxes to the princes of each area. When the prince of Kiev turned on the Mongols, the prince of Moscow stayed loyal and was thus given the responsibility of chief tax collector. ... The Mongols thoroughly destroyed the reputations of the princes and any of the already standing public l...

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Society approaches a crisis: the classes freely intermingle in the Governor's mansion; the fires burn; ludicrous "revolutionary- theorizing gives way to action; the fairy-tale prince, Stavrogin, commits suicide; his spiritual father, his former tutor Stephan Trofimovich Verkhovensky, strikes out upon the road in a futile, desperate pilgrimage to "find Russia-, and also dies. ... Stavrogin's act of suicide is the act of magnanimity he had not believed within his grasp "he becomes a hero, a fairy-tale prince, not through the desultory acts of his largely wasted life but through t...

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Catherine the Great Imagine you lived in a time of political upheaval, and when there was a full mistrust toward an irresponsible monarchy. You must then bravely step up defying your betrothed partner and ruler for the well being of your own nation. This loosely describes the life and succ...

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Tsar Alexander I, an intelligent, handsome, benevolent and aspiring leader, ascended to the Russian throne in 1801 to become one of Russia's greatest reformers and military leaders. The Tsar who defeated the French Empire was profoundly influenced by their domestic and foreign affairs, leading his vision of Russia to enhance and protect the revolutionary ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Initially open-minded to these western philosophies Alexander was inspired by his role models to spread these ideas, therefore becoming a "European" rather than just a Russi...

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How Romanovs came to the royal throne, when Moscovy Tsardom (Russian Tsardom) where at the end of dark period "the Time of Troubles"; How youthful and inexperienced Tsar Michael, the first Romanov's Tsar managed to restore stability, and to establish a solid base for his recipients, and finally tra...

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The Significance Of The Role Of Individuals In The Creation & Development Of The Communist State, 1917 – 53 Russia as a communist state was undoubtedly, even if only on a local level, shaped by the collective. Workers soviets, unions and Zemstvo played an important role in the early development of...

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