... of them guessed their fate, but not one of them uttered a single sound. At this moment eleven men entered the room: Yurovsky (an Old Bolshevik), his assistant, two members of the Extraordinary Commission.The execution had taken place, all the members of the Tsar's family were lying on the ... ordered the army to subdue the crowd. There were still a few commanders loyal to the Tsar who forced their soldiers to shoot into the crowd, killing several people. With Petrograd in the hands of revolutionaries, Nicholas had no choice but to abdicate the throne. Believing that he could somehow stil...

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... effect. The city was immobile. On Monday, March 12, soldiers of the elite Volynskii Regiment were given a direct order to shoot at the strikers, the same day they assassinated their commanding officer. A revolt within the tsar's army had begun. My March 14, 170,000 of Petrograd's 180,000 garrison troops had joined forces with the workers. The soldiers came to the ... a unanimous vote, the Petrograd Soviet of Workers" Deputies was renamed the Petrograd Soviet of Workers" and Soldiers" Deputies. On March 15, 1917 the tsar stepped down, ending the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty. A new consti...

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... November 1917 when the Bolsheviks finally assumed power. He describes the mayhem and chaos of the revolution as the Russian people struggled to throw off the shackles of the old regime, and different groups raced to seize control of the country. The book is a primary source of history. The author had the journalist's eye for detail ... imposed on them by the corrupt Tsarist regime. There was now a power vacuum in Russia. As Trotsky commented " the power fell into the street". Politicians from Russia's old parliament, the Duma, stepped in and seized power by forming a provisional governme...

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... to attend. Stalin also made a speech praising Lenin and said how he was Lenin's disciple. Therefore, the leading Communists decided not to make Lenin's testament public as it contained criticism of them as well as of Stalin. Therefore, Stalin was lucky in this respect. Nevertheless, in 1924, at the first ... all opposition for Stalin. Many people were arrested or either sent to labour camps or shot. A feature of the purges was public show trials, where old Bolsheviks confessed to crimes against the Soviet Union. However, getting confession was important. As they showed that the state and ...

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... He had been decorated for his bravery, and been wounded too, by March 1917 as the revolution, and change of government, swept away the old monarchist order. His poor working class background supported the change for the better and became a member of the Communist Party. Then upon contracting ... sometimes called the Battle of the River Halka, or by the Japanese the Nomonhan incident), Zhukov's force wiped out the Japanese 23rd Division, killing 18,000 Japanese troops. The Red Army and its Mongolian ally then demonstrated its absolute command of the battle by penetrating thirty kilometers...

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... the highest, purest part of man, and the pig's head represents the evil and darkness of man. This mirrors a biblical theme, where Simon represents God and goodness and the pig's head symbolizes the Devil and sin. Through the realization of only an internal beast on the island, Simon's meeting with ... socially" unacceptable characteristics of man become more prevalent during wartime, where they are more freely displayed. Wartime crimes such as rape, pillage and the killing of innocent people often go unpunished during wartime, yet are usually completely unacceptable in peace time society....

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... change overnight, but Russia can and slowly is moving toward normalcy. Bibliograph "Biz in Russia." Puget Sound Business Journal. 7 March 1995: 18. "Comrade Godfather; In Russia, the Mafia Seizes the Commanding Heights of the Economy." The Washington Post 12 Feb. 1995: C2. "Crime in Russia." Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press 15 Feb. 1995: 14. "Fifty-two Percent Believe Mafia ... ...

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... ) and govern Russia in the future. The power the Provisional Government was to have according to the army, were also weakened with the Soviet's "Order Number One" (14 of March) commanding all armies to establish a soldiers council in each regiment, were the soldiers were ordered only to deny orders conflicting with the Soviet's interests. The government could not anymore rely on ... ...

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... have been less violent, and offered moderate elements a better chance to pick up the reins of power- (Pipes Concise 74). In the late stages of the war, the tsar was commanding the armies at the battlefronts far from the capital city. So, the ruling of the country was left to his wife, a foolish, naive, and inexperienced ruler. All political parties clamoured ... ...

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... me with the impression that he dislikes the Jews. This may go back to their competitive nature and rivalries among business men. Jacob goes on to say, "Money is their God. Life itself is of little value compared with even the leanest bank account." I found this interesting because later he says "They brought temperate habits and a redeeming love of home. Their ... . He makes statements that imply that Jews are dirty, cut throats who will do anything to make a dollar. Then later make comments that leave the impression that they are humble loving people. So it is hard to separate what he i...

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... education started at the age of three under tutors appointed by a general. Although he was in joint possession of the throne, he was still only ten years old, making it difficult to rule a country. On that note, this is where Sophia comes in. Sophia took care of Peter's affairs such as his welfare ... church should serve as an educational institution. "Education was considered by the church as a means of preparing men to occupy the place in the world which God assigned to them". (Bissonnette 3) This is what the ministry and Peter firmly believed. And so it was that the education system wa...

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... the eyes of the proletariat (represented by the other barnyard animals), who are more prone to worrying about work and survival in their everyday life. Old Major gave many speeches to the farm animals about hope and the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even though ... he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as ... convictions of democratic Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, ...

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... the eyes of the proletariat (represented by the other barnyard animals), who are more prone to worrying about work and survival in their everyday life. Old Major gave many speeches to the farm animals about hope and the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even though ... he died before it actually began. Old Major-s role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as ... convictions of democratic Socialism. (Zwerdling, 20). Lenin became leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, ...

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... economic articles with stories, poems and articles regarding health care and popular science . Women became increasingly aware of themselves and according to some they resolved to break away from the old survivals and traditional mode of life' by taking off the veil'. Yet many women suffered as a result. Such actions by women caused panic among the male population who did not ... street after 1921 and the onset of Soviet emancipating legislation. Prostitution became the fate of so many husbandless women showing the idea that women were free to seek careers and loving relationships laugh...

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... Mongols also had great indirect effects on the Russian Orthodox Church as well. During the initial Mongolian raid, most churches were robbed and burned down. Mongols also spread terror by killing countless members of the church and priests themselves. The ones whose lives were spared were usually thrown and forced into slavery. The grotesqueness and horridness of the invasion made life ... nearly unbearable for Russian citizens. Adding to their spiritual scars, Mongol forces regularly held the false claim that God sent them to make the Russian people pay for the sins that they had commi...

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... the Soviet Union in 1991. As time passed the Brezhnev leadership became increasingly conservative and leadership positions within the party became scarce. The very old and incompetent were not removed, and a party top heavy with hard-line conservative communists proliferated. This new era would be one of conservatism ... can see where younger members would not question the older ruling elite. Similar to the nobles revering the Tsar as a god in earlier Russia, maybe not so much as a god now, but out of fear. Basically movement within the party halted. At this point the Soviet Union is burd...

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... . They had a petition to show the Tsar asking for better working conditions and an end to the war against Japan. Under misguided leadership the soldiers opened fire on the protesters, killing and wounding more than 500. The soldiers lack of knowledge on what to with the situation and how it was dealt with the result of poor leadership from the Tsar ... end to the Provisional Government. Alexander Kerensky, the minister of war sent troops into Petrograd to break up the mobs of soldiers that had started rioting against the Provisional Government, killing and wounding 400 of them. Alexander...

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... newly elected regime of the new Russian Federation had just taken over. The Soviet Union was over, so that left the big question of what to do with all the Old Russian territory. The new regime made it very clear how they wanted this question answered by drafting the Federation Treaty (Coppieters). This treaty stated that all of Russia ... 's old provinces would become part of the country again in exchange for central governmental power and a higher level of regional autonomy. This treaty was presented to all 88 federal subjects on ... victory was a one year long period of intense and ...

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... baby boom - my Uncle Terry was born in 1946 - the family started to settle down and make a go of the Post War American dream that included a G.I. Bill mortgage on an old house and a series of used cars. In 1953, my father, Donald was born. This was the height of the Cold War and the United States was undergoing a witch hunt that ... ," which naturally made the unfortunate professor and his family suspect. The election of John F. Kennedy, the youngest man every elected in the presidency, in 1960, brought a fresh breeze to an old institution. Kennedy and a his beautiful wife, Jacqueline, w...

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... be closer to a half a million. After the dropping of the two bombs Truman noted that Hiroshima was a military base and that we wished to avoid killing civilians. Despite the fact that Truman was trying to justify killing civilians people surrounding him believed that the bomb would not do much more harm than continued conventional bombing. This idea came from the fact that ... in Tokyo alone, conventional bombing had killed 100,000 civilians. This basically forced killing civilians to be deemed proper and inevitable even in democratic nations. Truman in a diary entry on August 11 of 194...

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... a typical Russian peasant village where few if any were educated and the people were heavily religious and narrow minded. When Rasputin was eight years old, he suffered his first tragedy. He was playing with his older brother along the banks of the Tura when Dimitri fell and drowned. Shortly ... had known from his childhood but also a number of un-Orthodox sects. They held beliefs like "only through sin could one truly repent and receive God's grace," and "if a person studied long enough, it was possible to attain a semi-divine nature and escape earthly judgment" The discovery of these...

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... had lost in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. Idealistically the United States should have entered war with England against Germany and Russia pre WWII. The Germans and Russians were killing millions of there own people and Jew's. The United States was too busy profiting off of weapons and loans from allied countries, while they did not want to waste American ... as the sinking or the Lusitania, Arabic, and the Sussex killed hundreds of Americans. Time after time the we gave the Germans another chance but they wrongfully disobeyed it, thus killing Americans and destroying American investm...

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... strike. On the 11th of March, Tsar Nicholas II sent orders for the military forces in Petrograd to forcibly repress the protestors. They carried out these orders to some extent, killing around 80 people, before mutinying and joining the cause of the protestors. With over 7,000,000 Russian military casualties attributed to the war at this time, it is little wonder ... that the soldiers chose this path of action rather than killing innocent members of their society. By March the 12th the mutiny amongst the soldiers garrisoned in Petrograd was complete and they had resulted to ... killing...

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... is on the rise, and nuclear treaties are ineffective. Many nations have nuclear warheads. While this could be construed as a bad thing, many nuclear powers do not adhere to the old "us and them" theory. It is no longer a fight between the communist and capitalist societies. While more nations have the technology to make nuclear warheads, many do not due to ... advisor to Boris Yeltsin, Alexander Lebed, told CBS program 60 Minutes that ten suitcase sized nuclear bombs were missing from the nuclear arsenal. Each is a one-kiloton bomb, capable of killing 100,000 people. (1) Many treaties h...

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... life. Hitler created large concentration camps to house all who were Jewish or anyone who the Nazi officials felt might deserve to be in the camps. Italy had the squadristi killing of all the people considered enemies of the state. Orwell took all of these horrific actions and created Room 101. Room 101 was a combination of all the other government's torture ... techniques and your worst nightmare. Citizens in Nineteen Eighty-Four have no personal properties. All the people live in dull, old state owned flats, except for members of Inner Party, who lived in much nicer homes. The situati...

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