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…There has been a long standing debate on why the atomic bomb was used to defeat Japan. The threat of Russian advancement in Europe and in Asia was enough to worry the top officials in the United States and British governments. Wherever the Russians…

…for the summoning assembly, and an eight-hour working day. Nicholas was not in residence and the marchers were fired on by imperial troops. Hundreds were killed and wounded, and the event has become known in Russian history as Bloody Sunday. The massacre caused a series…

…There has been a long standing debate on why the atomic bomb was used to defeat Japan. The threat of Russian advancement in Europe and in Asia was enough to worry the top officials in the United States and British governments. Wherever the Russians…

…Considered Russia’s last true autocrat, Alexander III was the epitome of what a Russian Tsar was supposed to be. Forceful, formidable, fiercely patriotic, and at 6’ 4” towered over his fellow countrymen. He was the embodiment of the fabled Russian bear…

…that the Russians would intervene. Intervention meant more demands by Russia and a more confident communistic country. In Document C, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in recollection of advising Truman on the affairs of Soviet intervention, remarks that the participation…

…collectors in France, and the government in Russia. The French monarchs taxed mainly for support of their vast and great army. While Russian czars reaped money from their laborers and craftsmen in order to increase government income and to help the government run…

…as the biographies of six men: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao Zedong. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The first four were totalitarians that made or used revolutions to create monstrous dictatorships. Roosevelt and Churchill differed from them in being…

…there are people, thereby allowing for nationalism, something Marx said, just like religion, would fade away after the Revolution. The Revolution in Animal Farm, clearly based on the Russian Revolution, did not keep nationalism from disappearing, a point Orwell makes…

…of the movement's existence, a split occurred among its leaders. Some, like Ch'en Tu-hsiu and Li Ta-chao, were beginning to be influenced by the success of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which contrasted sharply with the failure of the 1911 Revolution…

…no longer sell sugar to its most profitable country. However, soon after the embargo was set in place, Cuba aligned itself with communist policies and Castro began to run its country the same way Stalin and Lenin had years before. Within a month of these actions…