She writes "Yeltsin saw the war as a chance to flex his muscles...neutralize the conflicts within his own regime; expand his political base...and appear before the world...as a strong leader- (Shevtsova 67). The tragedy in Chechnya not withstanding, and with all due concern towards the dangerous tensions that exist between Moscow and it various ethnic republics, I agree with Gail Lapidus and Edward Walker that it is unlikely that we will see a significant secession movement in the Russian Federation in the near future. ... Issues of more effective regional and ethnic political repres...

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While possessing the aura of a great leader during the 1970's, Mao's character has, to some extent, been reinterpreted that he is now depicted as a decadent mass murderer. ... The Soviet Union polemically attacked it as "politically and ideologically bankrupt" as early as 1967 , several historians offered more cautious criticisms of the movement, and many later works, such as those of Maoist groups, remain supportive today. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ruled, its economy, its politics and its social status before and during the time he ruled; not just his actions. ... When people started to strike or express disapproval of the speed at which they should progress, Stalin said "It is sometimes asked if it is not possible to slow down the tempo somewhat to put a check on the movement. ... Many of the original leaders of the Party, old Bolsheviks like Zinoviev, Kamenov and Bukharin, who still had the respect of many, found themselves on trial. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The tunnel system was an unexpected resistance movement dug by hundreds of East Berlin students with thousands more willing to help. ... Walter Ulbricht, who was the German Communist leader under the command of Stalin, organized the construction of a large wall to be built in order to restrain illegal emigration from the East to the West. ... Mikhail Gorbachev, who was then the leader of the Soviet Union, said that his country, and the world, was in need of reform. ...

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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. ... Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The message from the leader was that only the strength that had won the war could win the peace.24 He stated; "the United Nations could not be relied on; the Big Three unity could not be assumed....

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With the resignation of President Yanukoych, separatist leaders rose to the leadership of Ukraine. ... President Vladimir Putin defended this movement of troops as a way to protect Russian-speaking people who resided in Ukraine against the growing opposition to the former Ukrainian President and the rise of anti-Russian involvement in state affairs. ...

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avan...

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The leaders of the nations specifically, the United states and Russia - realized that measures had to be taken, to ensure that no such war would ever happen again. ... The present world, the way we see things today, is founded on the principles that the various leaders of the two superpowers believed in. ... Another way of looking at it the underlying motive behind it was that NATO- guided by America- was trying to prevent the uncontrollable rise of a new Adolf Hitler, a leader who took a weak shattered country and made it more powerful than anybody could have expected or even imagined, anothe...

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Today, many people are informed about nationalism. It becomes an actual political topic for debates nowadays. But, few people got down to the core of nationalism, how it aroused and developed. Some scholars think that nationalism emerged when the first people appeared in the World. The others believe that Nationalism is a form of extreme patriotism and suggest some ways how to avoid it or consider it as a form of Zionism. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate