Russian literature has had a lasting effect on Russian arts. ... Literature was a means for the writers to explore and convey their ideas. ... (Rzhevsky, 1996, p. x) Russian literature not only influenced other artistic works and ways of thinking, certain Russian literature left distinct impressions on works that followed it. ... His Letters of a Russian Traveler were widely imitated, and the genre of travel notes remained important until the 1830's. ... Russian literature has a rich influential history. ...

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What is paramount to note is that a stable democracy must adequately address what Ken Jowitt calls the "developmental trinity-: nation-building; capitalism and democracy. ... There will be a deeper examination into the economic issues facing the Federation as a whole in the next section, but note that these concerns are magnified in the peripheral areas that lack developed agricultural and industrial economies. ...

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After giving a brief literature review on the topic, the first part of this study describes the existing energy security issues of the EU due to its heavy reliance on a single source of supply, namely Russia, for its natural gas imports and to a certain extend oil imports. ... Literature Review Whilst studying the literature on the importance of energy security and its impact on EU-Turkey relations it is possible to find some literature that lay a hand on these matters such as Mankoff's work,2 essays produced at the Center for European Reform (CER) and green papers of the European Commi...

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His biographical annotations, which served as the basis for the glossary and for the notes to the documents in this volume, drew on a wide variety of archival and reference sources. ... "Unlike so much of the literature, it presents this tale without moral prejudice, allowing both the victims and the perpetrators to recount their parts in it in their own words."...

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As a result of Lenin's Plan, historians can note a revolutionary idea, prophesized through Marxism ideology, conceded and carried out. ... Known as the 'Concerning Monuments of the Republic' Lenin signed on April 12, 1918, 'The Removal of Monuments Erected in Honor of the Tsars and their Servants and the Production of Projects for Monuments to the Russian Socialist Revolution', in which former monuments of Tsarist Russian would torn down and replaced with "outstanding persons in the field of revolutionary and social activity, philosophy, literature, science and art" ...

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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...

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Stalin's first political pseudonym was "Koba" (a fictitious hero in Georgian literature). Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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