... freedom of expression was really limited and this included the spread of information through the newspaper, and even books. The rebellion against the royal family was totally banned by the government and so the ones seeking reform of the government were pushed to the limits. Even though there were ... the other hand, Trotsky was indeed ready to go to extreme ends in order to reform Russia. In the year 1904, there was a split that occurred between Lenin and Trotsky that occurred as a result of this varying opinion on the strategies and wishes regarding the revolution. The organized ... ...

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... Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin is one of history's most distinctive figures. The second eldest son of an upper-middle class family, it was believed early on that he would assume his father's role in educational administration. However, that could not be farther ... all things revolutionary. When he was just sixteen his older brother Alexander, was executed for attempting an assassination of the Russian Tsar Alexander III. The family was devastated, being completely unaware of Alexander's involvement with politics and revolution, there were, especially Vladimir, taunted for his action...

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... across the globe in regards to abortion rate. About 60% of first pregnancies in Russia result in abortion. "Tatiana, an office manager in her late 40s who doesn't want her family name used, says abortions have been a regular, if deeply unpleasant, feature of her adult life. I'm not sure how many abortions I've had, but definitely more than 10, she says. Statistics ... meat prepared with sour cream) and Siberian pelmeni (dumplings) (http://www.slavophilia.com/pages/Country_Focus/Russia/Entertainment/Cuisine/). Food involves a major bonding aspect in Russian Culture between friends and fa...

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... were paid the land was the personal property of the peasant. As population grew plots of land became smaller and smaller, this meant peasants found it harder to sport their family each year. For all these reasons life was hard for Russian peasants, and diseases and malnutrition was common. Many of these peasants tried to improve their life by moving to ... Democratic Party. Their belief was for a society where people learned to work together rather than just for themselves, taking away selfishness from that society. In 1903 the Social Democratic Party split into two different groups, th...

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... when the Byzantine Empire took complete control for a little while, eventually giving it up to the Arabs who had recently conquered Persia. With near autonomy, Armenia was ruled by a noble family put in power by the Arabs until small Armenian kingdoms became sovereign. By the 10th century AD, the Byzantine Empire again conquered Armenia just to lose control to the Turks ... party, which held power from independence until 1999. In 1999 the Republican Party of Armenia and the Peoples Party of Armenia formed the Unity bloc to oust the PNM, but split again in 2001 opening room for other par...

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... . His understanding among the largest country in the world and its iron roof began to grow dim. In a hour of content conversation among Lenin, his wife and sisters and their family friend Clara Zetkin, who recorded a conversation in which she said: Lenin found us three women in conversation on problems of , art, learning, and educational. I was just giving expression to my ... NEP, Russian Constructivist considered their art as renegade art. Taking on a theme in which their art bore heavy constructed pieces resembling 'Industrialism', the Russian avant-garde made a conscience decision to...

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... 1913 he would be arrested and exiled six times, escaping almost every time. (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) During this period, the Social Democrats split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, and the Mensheviks. Stalin joined the more radical Bolsheviks, and by the time World War I arrived, in 1914, he had ... the arrest of the students who had informed his wife of the disaster. Shortly thereafter, on November 8, 1932, Nadezhda shot herself. It was the end of any trace of "normal" family life for Stalin, and witnesse...

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... Talbot introduced negatives made on paper. At about this same time, it became possible to print photographic images on glass lantern slides and project them. Not until 1878, however, did split-second exposure times become feasible. The major contribution was made by photographer Eadweard Muybridge. He was asked by ex-governor of California Leland Stanford to find a way of photographing running ... to compete reasonably well. A second Russian firm, Khanzhonkov, appeared in 1908. During the early 1910, exhibition expanded, and other, smaller Russian producers opened companies. Since Tsar ...

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... couldn't be brought to the cites or to the war fronts on time if at all. This affected the way Russia functioned socially as well. The people of Russia were split up into two classes the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie were few and far between by the end of the beginning of November, the proletariat on the other hand ... Russian population, and they were the farmers, the factory workers, the bakers, train drivers and many others. But they were also the soldiers. The living conditions of working class Russian family at the time was extremely poor with run down and unhygi...

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... to the introduction of the repressive "temporary laws". The People's Will was the group that assassinated Alexander II. They did this because after October 1979, when the Land and Liberty split into two groups. The Land and Liberty group had been set up in 1876, after two Russian writers had published the book "Catechism of a Revolutionist". This book had a great affect ... listened to the priests and Bishops and met with Russia's wealthy upper class citizens. Though he carried out his duties as the Tsar, Nicholas was far more interested in his family life. Any opposition to the Tsar wa...

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... arises from this is the Petrograd Soviet, which consisted of workers, soldiers, sailors, and peasants. It is here that open political activity is also legalized. During this period the Marxists split into two rival factions: the Bolsheviks, headed by Lenin, and the Mensheviks, a group of orthodox Marxists who believed capitalism and social democracy must develop on their own. As World War ... the Russian army. He is placed under a lot of pressure, as the public sees the war as an unnecessary imperialistic attempt to gain more land. Not only are people losing family members but the count...

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