As of 1927 Russia was vastly inferior to its neighboring countries industrially. With the ever growing fear of war‚ Joseph Stalin had to industrialize Russia and fast‚ or Russia was going to cease to exist. The result was the First Five Year Plan. In the communist government‚ a ministry was in charge of the execution of plans and there are t wo types of ministries. There was a sectoral ministry and a territorial ministry. The sectoral ministry was in charge of coal steel‚ textiles‚ aviation‚ and
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The Russo-Japanese war‚ 1904-1905‚ was a huge milestone that had a significant impact on the reign of Nicholas II. His ruthless thirst for expansion and haughty determination to incite a war with Japan was a shallow decision that led to an embarrassing defeat. This defeat affected the few remaining years or his reign in many facets and was raging fuel for the Russian population. It was a potential ignition many reforms including the social reform of the 1905 revolution‚ significant judicial reforms
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When you think of Peter I or Peter the Great‚ as he gave himself that name‚ one thinks of Russia and the many Tsars that ruled this interesting part of the world. To learn of Peter the Great is to explore his life during 1682 . Peter was responsible for bringing Russia out of darkness and into a more civilized country in hopes that Russia‚ the Motherland‚ would gain the respect of the rest of the European theatre and become a great power. To do this required many changes and reforms which Peter
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Army officers who displayed a lack of initiative and adherence to routine. They were ultimately divided on what to replace the Bolshevik regime‚ as they were an amalgam of separate ethnic groups united only by their desire to eject Bolshevism out of Russia. Furthermore‚ Pipes states that their administrative structure ‘rebounded in the Communists’ favour’‚ in that‚ whilst the Red Army was simply a military wing of a civilian government‚ the White Army were also a military force that also had to act
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History Russia before 1881 The rulers of Russia before 1855 were regarded as reactionary autocrats‚ unwilling to consider any political or social change. The rulers in Russia: 1855-1881 Tsar Alexander II Absolute Monarchy 1881-1894 Tsar Alexander III Tsar Alexander II received the title ‘Tsar Liberator” because he instituted important liberal changes such as the emancipation of the
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to noble population. 20 November Russo-Turkish War (1710–1711): Charles XII of Sweden persuaded the Ottoman sultan to declare war on Russia. 1711 22 February Government reform of Peter I: Peter established the Governing Senate to pass laws in his absence. 21 July Russo-Turkish War (1710–1711): Peace was concluded with the Treaty of the Pruth. Russia returned Azov to the Ottoman Empire and demolished the town of Taganrog. 1713 8 May The Russian capital was moved from Moscow to Saint
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MONGOLS MARK: The Mongol era in China is remembered chiefly for the rule of Khubilai Khan‚ grandson of Chinggis Khan. Khubilai patronized painting and the theater‚ which experienced a golden age during the Yuan dynasty‚ over which the Mongols ruled. Khubilai and his successors also recruited and employed Confucian scholars and Tibetan Buddhist monks as advisers‚ a policy that led to many innovative ideas and the construction of new temples and monasteries. The Mongol Khans also funded advances
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Russia in the nineteenth century Government & Society: * Autocracy (a system of government with one person with total power) was a system that was on going in 19th century Russia. It was led by the Tsar. * Beneath the Tsar were The Court‚ who were leading landowners and members of the government. * Below them were a small group of businessmen and traders. * The majority of the population were Serfs who were servants attached to land owned by a lord. They were required to
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Why did Russia invade Georgia? In August 2008‚ Russia and Georgia went to a brief war over the control of South Ossetia. It was Russia’s first war against another state since the collapse of the Soviet regime. Russia and Georgia have a history of conflict. During the breakup of the Soviet Union‚ the question of control over the region of South Ossetia
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point when Alexander II took the crown of Russia in 1855 he acquired a potential emergency that debilitated to fall the Russian Empire. Issues all through the Empire extending from parts of Finland to Poland‚ and also Crimea and numerous innate clashes extended the Russian economy to the edge of fall. Russia realized that inside a couple of months an aggregate thrashing in the Crimean War was up and coming and that would mean the total embarrassment of Russia on a worldwide scale. Peace talks were sought
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