However, it could be argued that the Tsar had an ulterior motive for initiating in the War as he was thought to have harbored resentment against Japan as a result of the Otsu assassination attempt of 1891, in which the young Tsarevich was attacked by a Japanese police escort. ... Their opposition to the Tsarist regime became apparent in the jacqueries, where peasants attacked government officials and destroyed records of debts owed by them. ... Although the Russo-Japanese War was a crucial turning point in the eyes of Russian which highlighted kew flaws in his leadership and raised question ma...

• Word Count: 1487
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gibbon's great history is essentially an attack upon Christianity as the operating cause of the decline and fall. ... In an interregnum incommoded with an abundance of sleek parsons and sly priests it; was bard to realize what fires had once blazed in the heart of Christianity, and what fires, of political and religious passion might still blaze in the hearts of men. ...

• Word Count: 2009
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Russia has always seemed to have a rough and uneasy history littered with civil wars, coups, and ever-present change. Starting at a point in early Russian history, princes throughout Russia, or Kievan Rus as it was called at the time, would consistently feud with one another over power. From about ...

• Word Count: 1372
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He was a Russian from the Volga region, the heart of Russia his speeches were powerful but without a hint of polish or elegance. ... Pri-minister Alexander Kerensky launched a major attack on the Germans, which proved to be a fatal error and a massive defeat. ...

• Word Count: 2093
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• Grade Level: High School

There began an outright attack on dissidents from the literary and scientific communities. ... Yeltsin's health deteriorated after the crisis of 1993, as he developed serious heart disease and other ailments. ...

• Word Count: 1541
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The importance placed on religion can be seen through the nickname for Moscow as the "Third Rome" and the "new, uncorrupted, heart of Christendom" . ... In the sixth century, the Slavs were driven into the Dnieper valley (modern day Ukraine) and moved as south as the Black Sea due to the search for secure lands which were free of nomadic attacks, a desire for free land, and to escape tax collectors. ...

• Word Count: 2499
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate