Culture Russian culture is different than other countries. Russians seem to have more of a pessimistic view in comparison to Americans. The people tend to expect things to go wrong and have learned to deal with misfortune. The religion has been Russian-Orthodox for almost 1000 years. The country is ...
ROLES OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND JAPAN IN PROMOTING ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN THE NORTHEAST ASIA The relation between the Russian Far East and Japan is 'near and far'. In the Cold War period there existed an 'invisible wall' in the Sea of Japan. The Cold War ended about 10 years ago. Although a tense atmosphere remains in the Korean Peninsula, people's comings and goings and cultural exchange between Japan and Russia have remarkably increased since then. In this sense the 'invisible wall' has collapsed. ...
Even though there were those seeking peaceful revolution, the banning of the government only pushed for extreme measures in the end. ... The major mistake that made the revolutionaries to seek extreme measures in order to eliminate Tsar was the fact that the latter arose an old system that was used in the 17th century in order to run his autocratic emperor. ...
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. In today's society more than ever the worry over the nuclear capability of cou...
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. T...
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...
Analysis of the Ukraine Crisis through the Theories of International Relations On February 18th, the Ukrainian Parliament voted against limiting the powers of President Yanukoych who was a strong supporter of keeping ties with the Russian government1. This vote came after months of protests within Ukraine's capital of Kiev to limit the presidential powers and give amnesty to captive protestors. These protests in Kiev started peacefully, but eventually started to become more chaotic leading to violent clashes between protesters and police and, in late January, two people were shot and k...
The Fall of Communism in Russia The Reasons for the fall of Socialism/Communism and the Troubles of Starting the New Democratic System in the Russian Federation "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky." Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian politician, president. Remark during a visit to the U.S. Quoted in: Independent (London, 13 Sept. 1989). ...
A bogy of the Cold War revival or its complete comeback is commonly a matter of a public discourse, triggering many different experts to take part in this issue. Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? Or maybe the political reality, nowadays, ha...
History Coursework 2, Question 1. In 1928, the newly empowered Stalin embarked on one of the most ambitious industrialisation programs in world history, leading to the establishment of the U.S.S.R as a pinnacle world superpower in less than half a century. Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. The Soviet economy had made advances under Lenin's semi-capitalist N.E.P with its slight capitalist elements, but Stalin's five-year plans were far more ambitious and so far riskier. Did the Soviet Union need to industrialise so ...
