Essays on Russia

Napoleon returned to France, seized power, and render himself emperor. Muhammad Ail used many French practices in effort to build up the new Egyptian state. He established schools to train modern military officers and built factories to supply his new ear-NY. Tension between the Sultanate and the Janissaries sparked a Janissary revolt in Serbia in…

Ivan the Terrible was a cruel tyrant, who never knew the meaning of moderation; He drank too much, laughed too loudly and hated and loved too fiercely. And he never forgot anything. Ivan was definitely smart and despite his cruelty, his reign is known as one of the greatest rules in Russian history. In Russia…

The text under the title “Drawing Back the Curtain” by Denis Healey begins with the description of Russia in the early years after the war. The author speaks about the changes in looks at the Soviet Union, about its generation which analyzed the nature of totalitarianism. Mr. Healey believes no power could destroy national traditions…

The political impact of Mongol rule was much more significant on the Chinese than it was on the Russians. Fundamentally, the Mongols were nomadic and the Chinese and Russians sedentary. Led by Genghis Khan and motivated by very real economic means, the Mongols established the largest land empire ever known. China lies just south of…

In 1900 the Russia Empire covered nearly 23 million square kilometres. Only a quarter of it was in Europe and the rest in Asia. The majority of the 128 million population were Slavs, but there were over 200 different nationalities. Several of these groups wanted regional autonomy and this was the cause of a constant…

Although the two former Soviet Union districts are standing side by side along each other, they largely differ by their diverse cultures and physical geography. We can explain their distinction in terms of the centripetal force and centrifugal force with Russia. Dagestan represents the where Chechnya represents the latter. The conflict of Chechnya traces back…

How successfully did the Tsarist regime deal with the difficulties of ruling Russia between 1906 and 1914? Ruling Russia between 1906 and 1914 was very difficult: the government was not democratic, peasants and workers were extremely angry because of the living conditions in the countryside and the cities, and political opposition to the Tsar was…

When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, due to many pressures both internal and external, the ex-soviet satellites were given their independence, much to Russia’s dismay. A new trend towards sovereignty made it difficult for the largest country in the world to deny it’s former members the right to separate. However, even with the creation…

Topic 1- Decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty Syllabus outline Nicholas II as autocrat Political, social and economic grievances in early 20th century Russia The tsar’s failure to address the problems of Russia The role of WWI in the fall of the tsarist regime Focus questions How stable was the social basis of tsarist…

LENIN (Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich (also used other pseudonyms such as V. Ilyin, K. Tulin, Karpov and others). Born: 10th (22nd) April 1870 in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk). Organizer of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and founder of the Soviet state, he continued the revolutionary teaching of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Born in the…