Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...
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. ... On the contrary, Paul objected to European views and was disgusted with the French Revolution and everything associated with it, such as the censorship of reading material, fashions, and music. ... She and the Russian people closely watched the events in of the French Revolution and celebrated when news was heard of the fall of the Bastille. ... Alexander symboliz...
Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities withi...
This would begin their struggle to move toward a democracy and a free-market economy. ... Russia is said to have missed the industrial revolution, which has resulted in them being almost backwards in technology. ... After all these issues are met then you can begin adding in your demands for the market economy (Anders 1995). ... The ruble is the Russian currency, like the American dollar is are currency. ...
Most people are familiar with the term "slave" and when it is spoken of, nearly all people think back to the southern United States involving the African Americans. ... Feudalism was given a huge blow in Western Europe by the French Revolution and Napoleon. ... In Russia, there had been some extreme cases of serfdom but theoretically, serfdom was more lenient than American slavery. ...
Introduction The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than a political event. The powerful interaction and fusion between politics and economics that characterized the state socialist system created a situation that was unique for the successor states of the Soviet Union. The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. Russia faces the seemingly impracticable task of economic liberalization and democratization. This is combined with a necessity to answer nationalist and ethnic questions ...
