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Cultural Dynamics and Social Theories of Pitirim Sorokin

In six pages this research paper discusses the career and the theories developed by Russian American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin. ...

Global Adoption

In five pages this paper presents an argument in support of international adoptions in a consideration of Russian and Chinese adop...

Internist of the Future

In three pages this essay considers a Russian medical student's desire to seek an Internal Medicine degree in a discussion of the ...

World Cultures and Family

according to the modernization perspective of womens current roles (1291). This perspective posits that the status of women is en...

Post Soviet Business People in Russia

the means of such barbarism, those who were "intellectually undisciplined and culturally unrefined" (Anonymous 20eorteg.html) woul...

Modern Russia and Capitalism

up and began laying the foundations of a more modern capitalist state. Of course, that type of capitalism was decimated by...

Self Destructive Downfall of Czarist Russia

In five pages this paper argues that in 1917 the Russian Empire disintegration was the result of its own collapse rather than an o...

Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev

In ten pages this paper presents a biographical profile of former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a critical assessment of his...

Modern Russia and the Role of the Russian Orthodox Church

In six pages this paper examines modern Russia and the role the Russian Orthodox Church has played past and present. Five sources...

Central Asia Today

the Soviet political, governmental, and cultural totalitarianism began to dissolve. The rapidly shifting balances of the 1990s, th...

Russian Campaign Could Not Have Been Won by Napoleon

In eight pages this paper discusses the 'backwardness' theory of William Fuller Jr. in a presentation of the argument that there w...

Russia and Democracy

status (Hollander). Nevertheless, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, there were immediate moves to plunge into the new form of ...

Comparative Analysis of Russian Theatrical Giants Vsevolod Meyerhold and Konstantin Stanislavsky

This paper consists of fourteen pages and compares the lives and contrasts the styles of direction represented by Russian theatric...

Muscular Massage and Russian Electro Stimulation

In five pages this paper discusses how athletes as well as nonathletes can benefit from the muscle massage known as Russian Electr...

The Rite of Spring by Composer Igor Stravinsky

In six pages this radical 1913 Russian musical ballet is examined in terms of its composer's revolutionary vision and the extreme ...

Russian Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Russian socialism has evolved over time. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this evolution is particularly evident. ...

Collapse of the Soviet Union and Russian Nationalism

the "imperial" center of the Soviet Union. In the late 1980s as nationalistic feelings in the satellite republics propelled these ...

A History of Nationalism in Russia

of communist rule may appear to be an interruption in that long history, it was actually a logical stage in Russias development. U...

Socialism as Envisioned by Stalin and Gorbachev

This paper examines the ways that Gorbachev basically destroyed the socialist vision created by Stalin. The author addresses the ...

Conflicted Nationalism and the New Russian State

In six pages this paper discusses globalization and its impacts upon the new Russian state's ethnic problems and nationalism issue...

Pasha and Yuri in Doctor Zhivago

In five pages the characters of Pasha and Yuri are contrasted and compared within the context of Doctor Zhivago along with an asse...

Conspiracy Theory Underpinnings As They Relate to Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss

In thirty pages this paper examines the factors that led to Alger Hiss's conviction as Russian spy by considering various pertinen...

Russian Communism's Fall and the Role of Mikhail Gorbachev

In eight pages this paper discusses the collapse of Russian communism in an assessment of the role played by Mikhail Gorbachev's G...

Was Vladimir Lenin Totalitarian or Pragmatic?

In eleven pages the post Russian Revolution role of Lenin is examined in order to determine whether or not he was more pragmatic o...

Influence of the Bolsheviks on the Russian Revolution

This paper of six pages examines how the Bolsheviks under the inspired leadership of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin resulted in t...

A look at Grigory Rasputin

This is a comprehensive look at a historical Russian figure. Was he really wicked? These and other ideas are discussed. This seven...

Russian Revolution and the Influence of Vladimir Lenin

concessions to the peasantry in 1921 (Service, 1995, pp. 22). He is considered, according to Service (1995), one of the most infl...

Assessment of the Industrialization of Josef Stalin

In six pages this research paper assesses the pros and cons of Stalin's Russian industrialization. Five sources are cited in the ...

Comparative Analysis on the Legal Reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses constitutional and 'Rule of Law' as each pertains to Gorbachev and Yeltin's Russian...

Boris Yeltsin from a Machiavellian Perspective

to order--cruelty, deception, and force were all justified in his view if these forces accoplished the desired goals. In wielding ...