His father, Vissarion was a shoemaker, and a violent alcoholic, and he would beat Joseph and his wife constantly. ... He married his first wife Yekaterina Svanidze, in 1904, but she unfortunately died in 1910, only after six years of marriage. ... This would help him take partial control of the country after Lenin's death. ... This of course wasn't true, but it helped rally the country, and bring up the moral of the troops. ... Although the number of looses in the war are unclear, the Soviet Unions suffered the most loses of any country during World War II. ...

• Word Count: 1904
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Although the Cold War focused mainly on the two most powerful countries of that time, this event, lasting approximately four decades, shaped our humble country. ... Each country was keen in discovering what their enemy was doing. ... He started to question his own country and its selfish acts of totalitarianism. ... And so he gathered his wife and infant son to stay with their neighbor, Sergeant Main of Royal Canadian Air Force. ... Finally, all the countries were vigilant of the spreading Communist Parties. ...

• Word Count: 1290
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Fidel Castro led his country through rebellion and chaos, he is the grandfather of a dictatorship that he created and controlled. ... While still in prison, Fidel found out that his wife was working for Batista's government and was demanding a divorce. He agreed to the divorce and his wife moved to Spain and he never saw her again. ... The only significant change his country has made has been to advance Cuba's medical system. ... Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro have similar personalities and are both very well-liked in their country among their supporters. ...

• Word Count: 1726
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His future wife actually fell asleep on his shoulders during the gathering and that is when he fell in love her because she admired and supported the same ideals as him which were the communist ideals of Lenin. ... After the death of his wife in 1989, he attends her grave each day to read aloud to her Lenin`s writing and also to give him a reason to be and go on with his life. When the Eastern Bloc starts to fracture after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the grandfather feels lonely because he has lost the two most meaningful things in his life: his wife and the Communist Party. He is actual...

• Word Count: 1782
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Under the czars Russia was a backward country, much of the land was in royal and private estates, and the rest was held and crudely worked in small plots by the peasants. ... In more broad terms it will be argued that the Revolutions in Russia was greatly needed for the establishment growth of their country. ... Czar mistake was leaving administrative matters at home in the hands of his wife who was deeply influence by a notorious faith healer Rasputin. ... Since the 1917 Revolution the country has change from poverty - stricken country of illiterate peasants to one of the world'...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6

Overall, Stalin was bad for Russia, and hurt his country more than he helped it. ... Stalin's second wife committed suicide in 1932. ... After the war, he placed many countries under his control or influence, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and many other countries. ... Stalin estimated that Russia was 50-100 years behind more advanced countries (The Party 16). ... The purpose of this plan was to increase the country's industrial production. ...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Overall, Stalin was bad for Russia, and hurt his country more than he helped it. ... Stalin's second wife committed suicide in 1932. ... After the war, he placed many countries under his control or influence, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and many other countries. ... Stalin estimated that Russia was 50-100 years behind more advanced countries (The Party 16). ... The purpose of this plan was to increase the country's industrial production. ...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Nicholas was unprepared to rule Russia, a country of immense population of one hundred and twenty five million. ... Nicholas made very bad decisions in his ruling, one of these was in 1915 he left his country to take charge of the military, leaving his German wife to rule Russia. ... After the realisation his son, Alexis, was too sick to rule the country he passed it onto his brother Grand Duke Michael but he his fear of being unpopular sent him to abdicate within twenty-four hours. ... Although this came with major consequences as it failed and had devastation across the country resulting in ...

• Word Count: 2288
• Approx Pages: 9

Many people who lost trust and belief in the Communist system defected to the United States and other countries. ... His blue eyes had a deceptively vacant look; he was often lost in though, his face on autopilot as his ind puzzled through data or research material for his current book ... a wife he loved and two children he doted on, a job that tested his intellect..." ... The second--also a tanker, Vatutin noted--died when the breech on the gun in his T-55 had exploded., Poor quality- control at the factory, the bane of Soviet industry, had killed the whole c...

• Word Count: 2281
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"4 Chaplin himself in his autobiography describes his reasoning behind the decision: Whether I re-entered that unhappy country or not was of little consequence to me. ... Chaplin plays a king of the fictional country Estrovia, forced to leave due to a revolution. ... It is an indictment of the sort of tactics that the McCarthy commission was purported to have used. 8 Shahdov has already decided to abandon the United States to go back to his wife in Europe at this point, but not before going to visit the grief stricken child who feels ashamed of his actions. ...

• Word Count: 2299
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Was Russia a Prosperous Country During the Rule of Nicholas II? ... Nicholas, like many past and future Russian leaders, wanted to expand his country's territory. ... Petersburg but quickly spread throughout the country. ... While Nicholas was away at war, he deputized his wife to oversee affairs of the empire. ... In October 1917 the Bolsheviks took over the government in Russia and Lenin became the most powerful man in the country. ...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Communism in the Eastern Europe was a tragedy. It was condemned because the leaders misused it. It was lack of support from other nations, and there was no efficient solution to save the economy from its downfall. However, it was Gorbachev's reformation that truly brought Communism in Eastern Europ...

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Georgia was an independent country until the Russian Tsars conquered it. ... A friend of Stalin's remarked, "He took with him a ferocious and enduring hatred against the college administration, against the bourgeoisie, against everything in the country that embodied tsarism. ... The death of his first wife added more coldness to his heart. ...

• Word Count: 1410
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School