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…. By expanding NATO, the United States runs the risk of angering and offending Russia. Russians are very xenophobic by their nature. They have a strong distrust of outsiders. They certainly do not want a former enemy such as NATO expanding into former allies…

…at the economic effects of the German invasion. As the Germans advanced from the west, they took control over large units of Russian industry and agriculture, particularly when they invaded the Ukraine, where the majority of the USSR's agriculture took place…

…in WWII, pro-communist propaganda filled the U.S.S.R.'s persuading citizens to work together for the common cause and to unite in threatening the western allies. Any poor or workinag class Russian family could have easily seen the benefits of such a working…

…One could find hundreds of books concerning the Russian revolution; however, it was George Orwell's Animal Farm that shed light on the corruption of the revolution. Even though Animal farm is clearly a satire on the Russian Revolution, it can easily…

…faced with an Austro-Russian threat of war. Clearly there had been a desire for a united Germany which excluded Austria before the arrival of Bismarck. Bismarck's predecessors had not been absolute fools as he claimed in his memoirs but had contributed…

…Crime and Punishment was the second of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most important, mature fictional works. It was first published in the conservative journal The Russian Messenger, appearing in twelve monthly installments in 1866. Dostoevsky left three full…

…that I said to myself no wonder they named this guy "The Giant". The bell rung for the start of the first round and the butterflies were fluttering around in my stomach. To my surprise the Russian came out with a slow and weak start by just defending all…

…doesn't like to be around other people as he has trouble making friends. After leaving school he reports to the marine corps where he becomes fluent in Russian. After a year of training he heads of to a radio outpost in Japan. While he is there he is court…

…. 'Here is real human drama-the anguish of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, realizing they must decide the fate of every man, woman, and child on earth..."(on back cover) '...And for Americans and Russians, for the whole world it was their life as well."(p…

…to those who live in its sickness ... They persecute every minority -- Poles, Finns, Germans ...but especially us [Jews]." (Malamud, 377-378) The Russian Tzar and government needed an excuse for Russia's week economy and political instability. They turned…