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Secretary Of State Department Of State
1,737 wordsIn August 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), charged that Alger Hiss, was a Communist spy. Chambers claimed that he and Hiss had belonged to the same espionage group and that Hiss had given him secret State Department documents. This group was a network of American spies recruited by the Soviet Union to collect useful information for Moscow. Alger Hiss was a Harvard-educated lawyer and a distinguished Washington figure...
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Russian Federation Communist Regime
2,106 wordsIntroduction 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 life left the Russian people with little democratic traditions. Russia faces the seemingly impracticable task of economic liberalization and democ...
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One Hundred Thousand Back To France
1,011 words... the time he had allotted. This unplanned delay forced Napoleons troops to march great distances under the extreme temperatures of the summer. All of Napoleons troops were issued wool uniforms. As a result of the hot and humid weather conditions, soldiers striped from the wool jackets and pants to just there undergarments (Eating, 22). Although rewarding at the time, it would later prove to be a fatal mistake. Prior to reaching Moscow, there was another major battle. The battle of Borodino wa...
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Mother Died Great Things
1,706 words"Tchaikovsky is not only one of the corner stones of Russian musical culture and world music. It's at the same time creative and technical encyclopedia to which every Russian has reference in the course of his own work" (Cross and Ewen, 1025), said Dimitri Shostakovich. Peter Iltich Tchaikovsky is considered one of the best composers of all time. In this paper you will see how Tchaikovsky's life was difficult and memorable. Peter Tchaikovsky was born in Voting, in the district of Viagra, Russia ...
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Cherry Orchard Short Stories
560 wordsAnton Chekhov is a Russian writer. He was born in 1860 in Taganro, Russia. His childhood was spent in the slums of a poor neighborhood. He and his brothers worked long hours in the shop owned by his father. Later, he develops pleurisy in his lungs which develops into tuberculosis. One year later, his father went bankrupt. His father had always dreamed of a better life, and had recently moved into a better house on a better street. To escape from being thrown in prison for not paying his debts, h...
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Operation Barbarossa Hitler Russian Offensive
594 wordsThe Russians Would never have joined the war if it werent for the German invasion of 1941 Operation Barbarossa. This parallels the USA intervention they only joined because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. Operation Barbarossa commenced on the 22 nd June, 1941. Just over 3, 000, 000 German troops invaded the USSR. Stalin doubted the country ability to perform well on the battlefield since the Finnish War, refused to counteract the Germans preparations, for fear of provoking them into war. The ...
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Trans Siberian Moscow Vladivostok Route
407 wordsTrans-Siberian Railroad, the greater part of the rail route from Moscow through the Siberian steppes to the pacific port of Vladivostok. Its serious planning began in the 1890 s, motivated partly by military ambitions, but chiefly by eagerness to colonize the then virgin but cultivable lands in the east, which would relieve rural overpopulation in European Russia, and to tap their mineral resources. The driving force in the decision to build was Tsar Alexander HI. By 1890 the railway had reached...
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Second World War Communist Ideology
2,067 words... people who were guided by high ideals, " says Kalugin. "Philby thought communism was the future of humanity. The Cambridge Five remained loyal to the very end, even when the system compromised itself. They didn't lose faith in the Soviet system. The Russian wife of infamous Cold War British 'double agent' Kim Philby reveals the details of what happened to the communist spy after he fled the West for Moscow. So this is the Russian woman the notorious British 'double agent' Kim Philby was devo...
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Social Democratic Party Women And Men
3,040 wordsWomens Roles in Communist Russia When the Womens Suffrage Movement was deemed a success in the early 1920 s, women lowered their voices, apparently satisfied with their accomplishment. They did not dare to acknowledge the remaining gender-related inequalities, much less vie for their decline. For over a century, women had fought for the most basic of rights. Mary Wollstonecraft laid the path for future women to follow, but women did not follow this path until they started to become used to the m...
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Los Angeles County Boris Yeltsin
2,100 wordsWe Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin We dont appreciate what we have until its gone. Freedom is like that. Its like air. When you have it you dont notice. Boris Yeltsin Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, president of Russia, elected shortly before the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991. Yeltsin, who was elected to a second term 1996, is a central figure in the transition away from communism in the former USSR and has dominated Russian politics in the last decade. Early Life In 1930, ...
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Roman Catholic Church Russian Orthodox Church
3,663 wordsTHE SYNODAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION STUDIES ISSUES RELATED TO THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE ORTHODOX AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES The commentary on the documents of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue On April 18, 1997 the Synodal Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Sluts had a meeting at the Department for External Church Relations to study the document of the VII Plenary session of the Joint International Commission for the The...
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World War Ii Northern And Southern
2,853 wordsThe historical impact of Operation Barbarosa cannot be denied. The Soviet victory over the Nazi German invaders set up the Soviets as a world superpower and set the stage for the Cold War. Had the Germans not attacked, the Russians may not have gained their dominance in Eastern Europe, and the Warsaw Pact may not have ever been. The war effort forced the Soviets to industrialize faster than ever, particularly in Siberia. Additionally, defeating the Nazis let all the countries of the world know t...
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Social Democratic Party Ivan The Terrible
1,541 wordsRUSSIA IN THE 1800 S Since the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the Russian Tsars had followed a fairly consistent policy of drawing more political power away from the nobility and into their own hands. This centralization of authority in the Russian state had usually been accomplished in one of two ways either by simply taking power from the nobles and braving their opposition (Ivan the Terrible was very good at this), or by compensating the nobles for decreased power in government by giving them gr...
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Communist Regime Stalin
6,302 wordsCommunism is like Prohibition it? s a good idea but it won? t work? (Will Rogers, 192 This essay will give a brief introduction to communism. It will then discuss the various factors which combined to bring about the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. It will examine each of these factors and evaluate the effect of each. Finally it will attempt to ascertain whether Rogers? opinion (see above quotation) on Communism is true, that is, whether communism was truly doomed to fail from the start...
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Ivan The Terrible Wife And Son
1,987 wordsIvan the Terrible was not always known as being terrible. When first reigning as Czar over Russia, he was a normal leader. It was after the five scars marking his journey through life that he had a mental breakdown and went out of control. Ivan was only three years old when his father, Vasili III, died in 1533. Since he was too young to reign, his mother Elena was made regent on his behalf. This was surprising because she was a woman, a commoner, and a foreigner by birth. Anxious to avoid a civi...
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Central And Eastern Europe Soviet Troops
2,886 wordsHistory teaches us that dictatorships can only be defeated by the very people it is imposed upon. During the Cold-War foreign relations experts, journalists and politicians of both the Soviet Union and the United States, had agreed on one thing: the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the re-unification of Germany could only be achieved by US military action which would ultimately lead to World War III. Non of the so called experts even considered the possibility that the na...
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Peter The Great Church And State
4,047 wordsEnglish/History 21 March 1998 Peter the Great: Father of Modern Russia Throughout history, there have been many great leaders and political figures who changed their world greatly. Of these many great people, the name of tsar Peter the First of Russia, more commonly referred to as Peter the Great, should be mentioned with the likes of Churchill, Gandhi, and Washington. He was almost solely responsible for turning Russia into a respectable economic power. During the reign of Peter the Great, from...
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String Quartets Three Years
2,559 wordsThe Life of Peter Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, also spelled Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born in Votkinsk, in the city of Vyatka, Russia, May 7, 1840. Second in a family of five sons and one daughter, to whom he was extremely devoted. Once in his early teens when he was in school at St. Petersburg and his mother started to drive to another city, he had to be held back while she got into the carriage, and the moment he was free ran and tried to hold the wheels. There is an anecdote of T...
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French Army Supply Lines
1,000 wordsNapoleon and the Russian Campaign of 1812 In June of 1812, Napoleon began his fatal Russian campaign. Napoleons immense ego compared to his sense of judgment is the reason France lost to Russia in a disastrous defeat. Napoleons invasion of Russia was an attempt to force Tsar Alexander 1 to agree to the terms of a treaty that Napoleon had offered him four years before. Napoleon gathered half a million soldiers from France as well as all of the vassal states of Europe. Napoleon went into Russia le...
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Monroe Doctrine Agrarian Reform
4,480 wordsConstructing Enemies: The Illusion of Communism and U. S. Intervention in Guatemala 1944 - 1954 Abstract Understanding the history of Central America is quite impossible without an examination of the United States efforts at ensuring stable markets for the proprietor of 70 % of the worlds banana supply, the Boston-based United Fruit Company (UFCO). This paper attempts to explore the relationship between the UFCO, the State Department, and Guatemala between 1944 and 1954, a time when Guatemalans ...
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