Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia. He was deposed during the Russian Revolution and executed by the Bolsheviks. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born near St Petersburg on 18 May 1868‚ the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III. When he succeeded his father in 1894‚ he had very little experience of government. In the same year‚ Nicholas married Princess Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt (a duchy in Germany). They had four daughters and a son‚ Alexis‚ who suffered from the disease haemophilia. Alexandra
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Modern History Research Essay: The Russian Revolution (Task 1) Assess the role of the Bolsheviks for the decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty. The beginning of the 20th century brought radical changes to the social and political structure of autocratic Russia. It was a period of regression‚ reform‚ revolution and eradication. Eradication of a blood line that had remained in rule for over 300 years; the Romanov Dynasty. The central figure of this eradication was Tsar Nicholas II‚ often described
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Pioneer developments in "moving pictures" occurred during the 1890s with the patenting of the kinetograph and kinetoscope (1891) by Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson in the United States and the cinematograph (1895) by the Lumiere brothers in France. By the turn of the century‚ films less than a minute in length were being exhibited at major fairs in the U.S. and abroad. Soon after‚ audiences began flocking to movie houses called "Nickelodeons‚" one-floor venues‚ where short films (approximately 10
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How significant was the impact of WW1 in causing the February 1917 revolution? On the 27th of February 1917‚ Nicholas II received a telegraph. Rodzianko‚ the President of the Duma‚ was trying to urge him into action‚ stating “any procrastination is fatal”‚ the situation was moving into “a state of anarchy” and “the government is paralysed”. The grave circumstances included a break-down in the transportation system and the supply of necessities‚ fuel and food. Sporadic firing plagued the streets
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The Russian Revolution was a time of change. It completely changed the world with the fall of the autocracy and the monarch ruling without question and the first ever communist state. Through the use of ideology‚ the Bolsheviks could achieve their goal without the use of violence. The people involved would each play a key role in the revolution. The events that led up to the resulting violence at the end of the revolution were also very important to consider. The events towards the end of the revolution
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Vertov obviously learned from Eisenstein and applied the theory of montage to his documentary ideal of presenting "life caught unaware." Vertov’s The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) took montage to lengths beyond Eisenstein; indeed‚ Vertov’s elaborate‚ often frenetic montage was unmatched until the era of music video. Montage theory: Eisenstein‚ Vertov‚ and Hitchcock 2: Vertov & montage 1: Eisenstein & montage 3. Hitchcock & montage the Kuleshov effect Eisenstein’s Soviet contemporary Dziga Vertov
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Montgomery 1 The battleship was an instrument used in several wars as a sea based weapon. The battle ship was one of the primary ships in World War II and was a massive ship. The bristling guns and heavy plates of armor were a staple of the ships design. The battleships design was top of the line when it was made but are now outdated. Battleships‚ once the juggernauts of the sea‚ greatly influenced the odds of battles long ago and serve now as monuments to America’s military might. The first
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Gapon‚ wanted to present the Tsar a petition requesting an improvement of living conditions and more freedom of expression. Riots spread to Odessa‚ the Black Sea Port and to Moscow where the Soviets were formed and Trotsky became involved. The battleship Potemkin mutinied and tried to help the Odessa rebels. There was a film made by the director Eisenstein which implied that the 1905 rebellion gave the momentum to a new revolutionary movement. However‚ ultimately‚ the revolution of 1905 was suppressed
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to the plastics of the image and the resources of montage. Plastic image is about the composition. It is the style of the sets‚ make-up‚ and the performance; lighting and the framing of the shot. Montage sets the film apart from the “animated photography”. It brought a new point of view to the cinema as an art‚ and it created a language. Scenes are broken down just to analyze an episode according to dramatic logic of the scene.What montage conceals is this fact of the analyze‚ so the spectator
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The clicking of his shoes echoed through the trees‚ making a break in the silence. Montage turned to see Granger steadily catching up to him “How are you doing?” Said Granger “Okay‚ considering.” uttered Montage softly Granger nodded “Once we reach the city we will have a better understanding of what happened.” Montage shook his head in agreement with him; after a few minutes Granger got the cue that Montage didn’t want to talk‚ and swiftly walked away. As Montag walked along side the pebbly
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