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…. HISTORY Administratively Finland was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden until 1809, when Russia occupied the whole country in the Napoleonic Wars. Finland became an independent republic on Dec. 6, 1917, when Lenin recognized its independence. In 1918 a civil…

…also knew that the Chinese as well as the Russians were acting on the strength of their own national foreign policy interests and imperatives. In the 1950's Nehru realized, as he carried out in a letter to a member of the Chinese authority, that India very…

…to the acceptance of Marx’s "new man" as an ideological goal. Marx and Lenin believed that "individuals freed of poverty and exploitation would be cooperative and just (111)," in contrast to the classical liberal belief that people are competitive and fundamentally…

…". There is no exact date that marks the beginning of the Cold War, but its deepest roots are found in early 1900s with the Russian revolution. The people of Russia were unsatisfied with the czarist government in place. In 1917 the government was overthrown and Vladimir…

…being communism, Marx quite literally took Hegel's idea and found a way to implement it to society, which was followed through by Lenin after the Russian revolution in 1917. Nevertheless, the Communist regime failed under the weight of its own contradictions…

…Revolution was an important theme throughout the Cold War. Revolutions began, molded and then finally brought an end to the Cold War. In 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution forced Vladimir Lenin, the new communist leader, to withdraw from the World War I…

…, others claim he was too sick, deathly sick, others claim he was just fed up with the horrible condition of the Russian Government. Still, a raising number of conspirators are led to believe that Boris Yeltsin, in no way resigned, but was silently assassinated…

…of the United States's Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Russian Space Station Mir was an important step towards international cooperation in space.         This is not the first time the U.S. has been in contact with Russia in space matters. In 1965…

…;" rather, it is to identify traces of European and Russian Byronic imitations and influences on Turgenev as author and creator of Bazarov. To avoid encountering serious debate on the specific characteristics of Byronism as a literary movement, "Byronism…

…Disintegrating Forces In The End of the Russian Empire, Michael T. Florinsky explores one of the most significant events in the 20th century. In just over ten years, Russia suffered vast changes in its government, military, and social standards…