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…representative works of Western writers. The gentry of Russia turned its look to the West for ideals and tendencies since the early 18th Century, when Peter the Great had set up a series of reforms for renovating the country. Russian nobility traveled widely…

…NOTE: These were 2 answers to SHORT-ESSAY Questions, confined to 500 words. Question: (Summarized) During the Reforms of the Imperial Army (RUSSIAN) in 1870s, the Russian Military Generals feverishly worked to imporve both their mobilization…

…Since the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the new Russian Federation has had a tumultuous relationship with capitalism and foreign investment. It is not surprising that twelve years have past since the fall of communism in Russia and still…

…and technological (until the full fielding of the Russian T-34s) superiority over the Russian Red Army in the summer of '41. However, the Russians still possessed as its key advantages the two trump cards that had since their beginnings, stood the test of time: manpower…

…" (189). Bazarov also became part of the vehicle by which Turgenev expressed a concept that had not yet been expressed in Russian literature, that of the gap between the conservative reforming of the fathers and the radical revolutionizing of the children…

…Throughout the reign of the three Russian leaders mentioned in the title, the Russian countryside was backward often not being able provide enough export capital to remove this backwardness. In each reign on occasions the Russian countryside failed…

…the economic basis of Russian power. The development of Russian serfdom differed sharply from changes occurring in Western Europe at the time. There, during the Renaissance, the growth of trade led to the use of money as royal payment. It also led…

…of the Russian aristocracy which was addressed to the Tsar. In the letter, it complained of Tchaikovsky's affair with the aristocrat's nephew. The person who found the letter gathered six other classmates living in St. Petersburg and they confronted Tchaikovsky…

…of the First World War, but had to postpone the production of the play until after the war, in 1921. He gave the play the subtitle 'A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes', thus inviting comparison with the Russian playwright Chekhov. The story…

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