Thomas Jefferson who thought quite highly of Alexander, wrote from Monticello in 1806, It will be among the latest and most soothing comforts of my life to have seen advanced to the government of so extensive a portion of the earth and at so early a period of his life a sovereign whose ruling passion is the advancement of the happiness and prosperity of his people; and not of his own people only, but who can extend his eye and his good will to a distant and infant nation. ... He had strong ambitions to improve the prospects of the peasantry, however it was often stated that he was attemptin...

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However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... The fact that when in 1941, the Soviet Union was almost smashed by Hitler's blitzkrieg supports the idea that Stalin didn't actually take the threat of invasion seriously and was in fact using it entirely for his own glorification. ... Since the revolution, trade with the outside world had been severely reduced and the U.S.S.R had to rely almost entirely on its own resources to industrialise. ...

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1.0 Introduction The international security has been shifted by the tectonic geopolitical role of cold war. The traditional definition is no longer sufficient to satisfy what constitute international security in the modern world full of security challenges and threat. However, some critics have arg...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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Despite this fact, the Russian empire was the home of mainly peasants who were farmers even though it is believed that the lives of the Russians was improved in the year 1861 from which they were serfs, implying that they were owned and traded like goods by their owners. ... The effect of this poor ruling and governance was the fact that the people ended up to be peasants in their own country and there was a major division between the people and the imperial government. ... Mistreatment of the Soldiers The bad treatment that the emperor was causing was not only aimed at the people, but also hi...

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