Russia and the Eurasian Republics land spans two continents Europe and Asia. ... More than half of the land of Russia is covered in snow. ... The region of North Africa and Southwest Asia stretches form Morocco in the west Afghanistan in the east and covers more than 10% of the earth's total land surface. The Nile River and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers provide fertile land and is where agriculture flourishes. ... The Dead Sea is the earth's saltiest body of water "about 9 times saltier than the oceans. ...

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The heroine of Kunderas book is the tortued Tamina; who in yearning to keep her recollections of her dead husband alive within her mind hearkens to the situation of Czechloslovakian culture and identity as a whole. ... Kundera comments on the campaign as follows: "200 Czech writers have been proscribed, including the dead Franz Kafka; 145 Czech historians have been dismissed from their posts, history has been rewritten, monuments demolished. ... This is a problem of identity that Kundera is quick to point out; "In the course of a mere half- century, it (Central Europe/Czechloslovakia) experi...

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His autocratic rule was supported by the privileged nobles, who possessed land and serfs, and held all the chief offices in the Czar's administration. ... These problems were due to the poor devisions of land that were given to the peaseants, which lead to "Privilege Russia." The Revolution was to be a new starting point that even purely democratic problems, like the land ownership, cannot be solved without the conquest of power by the proletariat; but this in turn places the socialist revolution on the agenda. ... "I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinc...

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In some areas Jews were forced to live in ghettos, pay special taxes, and were not allowed to own land or have certain occupations. ... Their dead bodies were dissected and the organs were sent in for research. ...

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A Religion Of Russia's Very Own The third of Fedor Dostoevsky's five major novels, The Devils, also erroneously titled The Possessed, is a powerful political tract inspired by an assassination in 1869 and written in 1872. His central obsession was God, whom his characters constantly search for...

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He was a true influence for modernising Russia, as he pressed hard for social reform, redistribution of land and unsupported war negotiating settlement with Germany top gets out of war, which were just losses for Russia. ... After Linin's dead rapid modernization occurred in the hand of Stalin, by far the most ruthless leaders. ...

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Beginning on February 20th, a two day period of violence erupted on both sides leaving an estimated hundred dead and hundreds injured according to health ministry in Kiev3. ... The Russian forces targeted Crimea, a large land mass south of Ukraine's mainland and west of the Russian border, due to the geographical separation from the mainland of Ukraine, which historically has been pro-Russian10. ... When Russia invaded Crimea and furthered troops into the main-land of Ukraine, it went against the interests of the international community. ... Russia, acting out of this fear of losing a cr...

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By the end of the war 1.3 million South Koreans, 1 million Chinese, 500,000 Northern Korean's, 54,000 Americans were dead (Rees 4). ... It is sometimes called, "The Land Bridge," between China and Japan (Rees 1-2). ... That battle ended in 4,280 Americans dead. ...

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It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... The subsequent proposal read: It was agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary westward) and the line of the Oder River, including Eastern Prussia and the Oppeln Province as part of Poland. (22) Stalin moved the frontier of the USSR westwards and handed over to Poland a large area of the Soviet zone of Germany, including land to which ...

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Mayhem immediately arose on the Ole Miss campus, with uprisings resulting in two people dead, hundreds of people injured and countless other people detained, when the Kennedy administration summoned 31,000 National Guardsmen and supplementary federal forces to impose command. ... Kennedy, seen as the first president to support civil rights, took office in January 1961; and the Brown ruling was still the official law of the land" (U.S. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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