Nina Taupier 2011-10412 Russia and international Relations The West and Russia. 31.5.13 Whether Russia will integrate or cooperate with the West has been and continues to be a very heated debate. Overall‚ Russia’s European frontier appears the most stable and peaceful. The defining factor in the European security landscape is NATO enlargement. Russia’s failure to prevent the first wave and the likelihood of successive waves make the prospect of dividing lines in Europe real. The extent
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Unhappiness had been brewing in Russia for a long time‚ even back in 1861‚ after the Emancipation of the Serfs. Serfs had been freed thanks to tsar Alexander II’s reforms‚ but even though they were technically free they were forced to keep working to pay off the debts that came along with their freedom. Emancipated serfs also didn’t earn much‚ and they weren’t allowed to do what they wanted with their allotted land. Although the Russian population grew immensely in the peasant class during this time
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FAST HAAR TRANSFORM BASED FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR MULTIMODAL BIOMETRIC SYSTEM ABSTRACT In many real-world applications‚ uni-modal biometric systems often face significant limitations due to sensitivity to noise‚ interclass variability‚ data quality‚ non universality‚ and other factors. Attempting to improve the performance of individual matchers in such situations may not prove to be highly effective. Multi-biometric systems
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a steady hand when he wrote The Prince. Russia delivered a leader capable of taking power and controlling it in such a form as Machiavelli prescribed it. Vladimir Ilich Lenin was this man‚ he became the first leader of one of the most Machiavellian governments ever in existence‚ the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin represented the key principles of the Machiavellian idea. When the Communist government finally started to function properly‚ Lenin managed to be both loved and feared as
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Stalin’s Russia‚ 1924-53 The leadership struggle * Russia wasn’t a democracy * Struggle wasn’t about winning popularity with the people * Influence was very important * Lenin was leader as party respected him could count on the loyalty of most party members The contenders: Leon Trotsky * Most obvious contender * Heroism during revolution and Civil War * Organised October Revolution and commanded Red Army * 1917-22 Lenin’s right-hand man * Radicalism‚ strong
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Russia in Revolution 1914-1924 Syllabus Notes Impact of WWI - Battles lost: Tannenberg and the Mazurian Lakes were the most crushing defeats on the Russian side. (1-2 million casualties altogether in the war) - Low morale: Because soldiers either died or deserted‚ the injured ones waiting for days with no medical care‚ patriotism collapsed. - No cooperation: The Russian army was a mess. Orders were given‚ then taken back‚ and workers had to toil to produce food at the failing front line
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Debate: Lenin‚ Tyrant or Savior? The debate is still going on between high profile historians as to whether or not Lenin was a Tyrant or a Savior. It is hard to just take one side‚ as it is not clear cut. To understand better why it is so hard to put Lenin under one of theses profiles‚ I will study the arguments as to why he was a Tyrant. Then I will go over the arguments which support the idea that Lenin was in fact a Savior. I will then be able to take an opinion. Lenin was very interested
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on the timeline. Specifically‚ choose events that are relevant to the political and economic development of Russia during this period. Your timeline should include a minimum of 15 events over this time period. Plot each event to indicate when they occurred‚ but also decide to what extent each event was moving Russia toward modernization and stability‚ or whether the event was moving Russia toward REVOLUTION. For each event‚ provide a 1-2 sentence justification to explain why you placed it in a
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The Rise of Communism: Marx and Lenin Marx’s class struggle was one of the founding ideas of Lenin’s modern socialism. Marx’s ideas were socialist- he believed in equalizing the economic asymmetry. Marx’s (and Engels) ideals consisted of a passive and natural mental shift from one political mentality to the next‚ claiming that society evolved together: from one phase to the next. According to Marx‚ class struggle evolved from hunter to slavery to feudalism to capitalism to imperialism to socialism
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Goodbye‚ Lenin is a heart-warming film about a son’s attempt to make time stand still in order to keep his sick mother from knowing the truth about the political changes. His mother‚ Christiana‚ is a strong political activist in the Socialist party in East Germany. She becomes ill after she sees her son‚ Alex‚ protesting in the streets‚ she falls into a coma after suffering a heart attack. During the eight months she is in a coma‚ the Berlin Wall comes down and capitalism floods in from the west
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