The Balkan area consists of the modern day countries of Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, and other small nations that border the Black Sea. This area has prominently shaped European history in the nineteenth century and has been one of the topics in major conflicts such as World War I in the early twentieth century. The Balkans were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, the "Old Man" of Europe, which was declining from power. ... Furthermore, the Balkans supported the strategic waterways of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles which allowed faster transportation of goods from the Black Sea to t...

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Gladkov quickly establishes this conflict between the couple in order to emphasize Gleb's emotional capability. ... He feels conflict; he feels loss. ... Ultimately, Cement is a portrayal of the inner conflict that many battled during the revolutionary era. ... Dumb, with bursting brain she saw only blood which boiled and bubbled like the moving sea"(Gladkov 165). ... The old Dasha, Gleb describes, was bountiful with motherly love. ...

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He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... The real hero of the conflict, however, was Leon Trotsky, a former Menshevik who organized the Red Army and guided the Bolsheviks to victory. ... The following year, another group of old Bolsheviks were subjected to the same treatment. ...

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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. ... The allies objective here can be construed as a method of arms control' but from media evidence and the fact that the Gulf conflict is still taking place it can be argued that it doesn't create stability for the states concerned or the International stage. ...

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He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. ... Stalin used the name "Koba" until about 1913, when he regularly began signing articles and letters with the name "Stalin" (meaning "man of steel" or "steel one"). ...

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