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…much better off than fifty years before but all of whom were far from being completely satisfied, were again only part of the trend toward full national freedom which was becoming increasingly strong among the oppressed nationalities of the Russian Empire…

…their fingers. At the very heart of The Deer Hunter is Russian roulette, even though an inaccurate historical fact, it is an interesting metaphor operating on several levels. Superficially it relates to the joy that these working men feel when they go hunting…

…, North Carolina. At the age of 19 Tyler graduated from Duke University, Raleigh, where she won the Anne Flexner Award for creative writing. She did post-graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. Before settling in Baltimore Tyler…

…that he made the pigs in charge and later we found out that the pigs were evil and corrupted, similar to politicians that runs our government. This analogy depicts politicians to be like dirty pigs. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a parody of the Russian…

…officials. Few analysts accepted George Keenan's position that, "it is not Russian Military power which is threatening us, it is Russian political power". If the United States had realized the Soviet Unions plan in setting up "puppet communist governments…

…Fines plays Political Officer 2nd Class Danilov. In a scene, he becomes the man who is permanently charged with inspiring the Russian forces with stories of Vassili the hero. Jude Law plays Vassili Zaitsev. Vassili is a simple shepherd from the Urals…

…“tolstoy”, in russian, literally means fat. His parents died when he was a child, and relatives were left to bring him up. Tolstoy started his studies of law and oriental languages at Kaza University. Dissatisfied with the standard of education he returned…

…Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), world famous Russian physiologist became second to Freud as the most influential psychologist of our century. Pavlov was a follower of "The father of Russian psychology," Sechenov, whose theory was that the reflex…

…go back to the 1890s when, after a century of friendship, Americans and Russians became rivals over the development of Manchuria. Russia, unable to compete industrially, sought to close off and colonize parts of East Asia, while Americans demanded open…

…the Russians rather than the Japanese, but they have demonstrated only that he and some of his aides hoped that this new evidence of American power would restrain the Russians at the same time that it accomplished American objectives in Japan. By August 1945…