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…The Russian Mafia: Protectionism in the New Capitalist Russia The Russian Mafia has always exercised an important role in the Russian economy. The contemporary mafiosi are descendents of the seventeenth Century highwaymen and Cossack robbers…

…Marxism played a very important role in the 1917 Russian Revolution. The powerful ideologies of Leninism and Trotskyism formed the basis of Bolshevism and therefore formed the basis for the revolution. Leninism consisted of the guide or ideas which were used…

…of rule were major causes of the Russian Revolution. Two other leaders who were responsible for the overthrowing of Czar Nicholas II were Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. These two Russians were the chief revolutionaries who led the Russian Revolution. Lenin…

…Many books these days are written with satire to show the ridiculousness of human actions. George Orwell's Animal Farm was written to shed light on the absurdity of the Russian Revolution. There are many similarities between the two. Both had…

…, the types of reform in China and Russia are completely different. The reform in the Soviet Union was a political reform, whereas the Chinese reform was completely economical and was characterized by the “Great Leap Forward”. Some similarities between Russian…

…In 1812 Czar Alexander the First had sworn an oath that Russia would never make peace as long as an enemy stood on Russian soil. Little did he know that not much more than a century later the enemy was those who were native to the Russian soil…

…Modern day knowledge of the early Russian history exists because of folk tales. In the developing Russian society between the years of 1100 A.D. and 1400 A.D., plagued by poverty, the Mongol invasion, and most importantly, illiteracy, keeping a written…

…The leadership of the 1917 Russian Revolution greatly impacted the fate of the country, but the nature and style of the leadership meant that the revolution consistent with the Marxist model that it was supposedly based on. The Bolshevik Party…

…Social Attitudes of Recent Russian Immigrants This paper is concerned with social attitudes of the recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the United States. They come in large numbers from a society, which is very different from American…

…. As Lenin expected, Russia Revolution brought up a revolutionary fever around the Europe, especially in the former empire of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Many of the newly independent people of eastern and central Europe supported socialist principle…