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“A Hero of Our Time… is indeed a portrait but not of a single individual; it is a portrait composed of all the vices of our generation (Nabokov 16). Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time concentrates on Pechorin, an arrogant and manipulative military officer, who Lermontov considers typical for his generation. The novel takes … Read more
“Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and Sisters of the Glaz Soldat! Men and woman of the Surviving States of the Reformed Soviet Union: welcome, my friends!” Grozny paused to allow time for the tumultous applause to die down from the crowd behind Průhonický Castle. They watched faithfully watched the projected image of their fearless leader with a … Read more
The Iranian Revolution 1979, often referred as the Islamic Revolution gives an impression of a religious movement against a non-religious regime, especially for having a religion mentioned in its name, “Islam” in the “Islamic Revolution”. How correctly does this statement describe the Iranian Revolution? How do we define religious movement and non-religious regime? I would … Read more
Communism and capitalism are two forms of government that are vastly different but used by many nations. The United States and the former Soviet Union were ran by two economic systems that were on two different sides of the spectrum because of how vastly different they were. The Soviet Union used a political system that … Read more
In the totalitarian future of 1984 by Orwell the ruling party controls it’s people by means of repression, inclusive management over language and history, and utter manipulation of individual ideas and thoughts. The party’s strength is received by it’s power over the people and as a result the people believing in the party. With the … Read more
Entering the 19th century, Finland was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden. Then, in 1809 it became a Grand Duchy under Russian rule, and finally, after periods of both greater and lesser degrees of independence, it becoming an independent country in 1917. Finland initially joined Sweden in the 13th century and then remained under … Read more
Review the setting. Lasting only three days, the Bay of Pigs was a short yet defining battle in the Cold War. Fought between the communist Soviet Union and the United States the cold war lasted approximately 45 years. In the years of the Cold War, 1945-1991 “America and its allies struggled to keep the communist, … Read more
The changes linked to the globalising international economy have had considerable impact on the functions and disposition national states. This changes however, did not begin with globalisation but after World War II when during the golden age of capitalism when an economic hegemony – the US – was created and the world experienced political and … Read more
Both the United States and the Soviet Union had strong military forces of aircrafts, ships, tanks, and soldiers. Both also had arsenals of thermonuclear hydrogen bombs that were capable of destroying entire cities and millions of people in an instant (Byrne 11). In addition to these weapons, both nations had intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that … Read more
“I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself”(quotezine). Peter the Great built the foundation Russia stands on today, and enabled Russia to become the world power that we know today. Some may credit Peter with inciting westernization in Russia, but westernization started prior to when he was born. After … Read more
There comes time in the history of our world, where a quote defines and embodies the actual event. Some people remember both when both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Present George W. Bush said those famous words regarding the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, by … Read more
“We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries … We needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations … and particularly to end the arms race. ” (Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev). Gorbachev was the former president of the Soviet Union and a former war leader. … Read more
The policies pursued by Pol Pot were done in order to maintain ideological purity, absolute control, and party security. So, did philosophers like Fanon and Marx have an undermining influence on the morals of elitists in the political realm? In response to the extreme process of purification from anything “other”, Fanon stated that, “violence is … Read more
The soviet communist party, or the Bolsheviks, always new that strong propaganda was essential to increase the consciousness of the masses. As stated in the Encyclopedia of Propaganda, ” propaganda was central to Marxist-Leninist ideology long before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. “(675) The power of persuasion and coercion were exercised with great force by … Read more
Although many of his ideas did not bring the expected results, Nikita Khrushchev policies of de-Stalinization were politically wise. He went against many of Stalins tyrannical policies and gave the people a much greater sense of freedom. In the process known as de-Stalinization, legal procedures were restored, some greater degree of meaningful public controversy was … Read more
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. The penetration of the Communist regime into every facet of … Read more
One can not effectively interpret world political policies of the 1970’s without the inclusion of the relationship known as detente, and the breakdown there of. The breakdown of the 1970’s detente can be attributed to many different issues and events. In researching these events the varying opinions from both world superpowers which would establish the … Read more
It is often wondered how the superpowers achieved their position of dominance. It seems that the maturing of the two superpowers, Russia and the United States, can be traced to World War II. To be a superpower, a nation needs to have a strong economy, an overpowering military, immense international political power and, related to … Read more
There were several major sources that created discord between the Bolsheviks and western states in Europe from 1917 to 1921. Conflicting ideologies that each attacked the very fabric of the others respective society led to the notion that capitalism and communism could not coexist. The attempts of both actors to hold control of their own … Read more
Joseph Stalin was maybe the biggest mass murderers of the twentieth century. From the purges in the Red Army to forced relocations, Stalin had the blood of millions on his hands. This essay is not going to debate the fact that this was indeed a brutal and power hungry individual, because he was indeed just … Read more
Communism is defined as “a system of political and economic organization in which property is owned by the community and all citizens share in the enjoyment of the common wealth, more or less according to their need. ” In 1917 the rise of power in the Marxist-inspired Bolsheviks in Russia along with the consolidation of … Read more
This essay concentrates on two representatives of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and in the 1970s–Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The essay introduces the history of the dissident movement in the Russian Empire under the Tsars and in the Soviet Union under various leaders, mainly under Nikita Khruschev, Leonid Brezhnev … Read more
