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…he wanted to be a writer, and before he was eighteen he decided that he was going to write a novel about the Russian Revolution. He said that during his childhood he "bore this social tension - on one hand, they used to tell me everything at home…

…of the causes of the revolution. The main causes of the Russian Revolution are deep in Russia’s history. For years autocratic and repressive czarist regimes ruled the country and most of the population lived in bad economic and social conditions. During the 19th…

…        In this paper I plan to prove that even though Stalin made improvements in the Russian industrial system, his rule did not benefit Russian society and the Russian people. In order to accomplish this, several questions must be asked. How did Stalin affect Russia's…

…The Palace of the Russian Tsar The Alexander Palace was ordered to be built by Catherine the Great for her grandson, the future Alexander the First. She began to plan for the building when he was young and intended to give it to him when he became…

…inciting his new "comrades", an obvious pun on the Soviet's word for friend. Old major is compared to a Russian revolutionist Karl Marx. He was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century, he was an idealist who spent most of his life studying…

…by jury to cut backs in the military draft. As an American teenager, my life contrasts what a Russian life would have been like during these reforms. The most striking reform to happen during the 1800's in Russia would have been the change in how the justice…

…. The complexity of Peter is astonishing, his intellectual curiosity, combined with his hasty temper and cruelty caused a tumultuous but successful reign as Tsar. His brilliance as a ruler profoundly effected Russian society but his cruel decisions left an indelible…

…. The Social Democrats (Marxists) were split, at this point, between the Mensheviks who wanted to wait for necessary pre-conditions for socialism to develop in Russia and the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks, Lenin's faction of power, supported revolution now, led…

…and cramped, with only one room for your family, and the laundry and kitchen had to be used at a certain time: it was shared. She was not used to the food in Russia, and had not spoken Russian ever. Although they lived in Kiev, which was in the southern part…

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