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…car. Marx is an obvious reference to Karl Marx the German socialist. Lenina is a variation on Lenin who led the Russian, Bolshevik Revolution and Benito Hoover, a minor character is a combination of Benito Mussolini the Italian dictator and Herbert Hoover…

…always exist where 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…

…national reassertion. He was determined to prevent the former Soviet Union and China from combining powers against India. But he also knew that the Chinese as well as the Russians were acting on the strength of their own national foreign policy interests…

…. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Alekhine, as well as many strong chess players, were interned by Germans and made prisoners of war in Mannheim. After his release, he joined the Russian Red Cross in Austria until Tsar Nicholas II was abdicated…

…and officially proclaimed herself as the new Russian empress. Elizabeth was a beautiful, colorful woman and relatively smart, who was responsible for much of the beauty of Russia. She was devoted to the arts (to a Russian peasant named Razumovsky, in particular…

…The Kursk, a Russian nuclear submarine, which sank on August 12th is at the bottom of the Barents Sea, 150km (90 miles) off Russia's northwest coast. While performing a routine naval tactical exercise something undetermined went wrong sending…

…, they would have simply waited them out without the major loss of life seen at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the Yalta conference, Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Josef Stalin for Russian support in the war with Japan. (Claypool, 1984) "In return…

…in USSR, we do not have to guess which language was going to be the common language for all the states of the Soviet Union. Russian was spread up all over the Soviet Union's newly affiliated countries including Central Asian countries. Numerous Russian schools…

…mistake in his life - Napoleon had attempted to conquer Russia. The Russian Campaign Napoleon gathered a grand army of 655,00 men to attempt what no man had done before, invade Russia. He set out in the summer of 1812 to do his task with full confidence…

…across Chinese-held Manchuria to the Russian seaport of Vladivostok, thus gaining control of an important strip of Manchurian territory. (Kort, 53 & 73) However, though Russia had built the Trans-Siberian Railroad, it still lacked the transportation…