THE KITCHEN BOY One of the greatest mysteries in Russian history is the murder of the last royal family of the Romanov dynasty. Although there is much speculation as to what happened that grisly night‚ some details still remain unclear‚ and could only be verified by a witness to the tragic events. In the novel‚ The Kitchen Boy‚ author Robert Alexander offers a fictional tale that does just that. Through the perspective of the main character Misha‚ the reader is taken back in time to the early twentieth
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To what extent did the events of 1945-1946 turn war-time allies into Cold War enemies? During the Second World War‚ the United States and Russia had been allied in order to defeat Nazi Germany. However‚ following the end of the war and the victory over Germany‚ relations between America and the Soviet Union began to decline‚ culminating in the Cold War. Whilst the orthodox view of the Cold War‚ as held by historians such as Thomas Bailey‚ is that Stalin and the USSR were responsible for the start
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Ukraine is one of the largest countries of Eastern Europe. Ukraine occupies an area of 603‚700 square kilometres. Its territory stretches for 893 kilometres from north to south and for 1‚316 kilometres from east to west. It has state borders with Russia‚ Belarus and Moldova. It also borders on Poland‚ Czehia‚ Slovakia‚ Hungary and Romania. In the south it is washed by the Black and the Azov Seas. The major part of Ukraine is flat and only 5 % of it is mountainous. The two mountainous areas in
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Dance 10: Quiz 1-5 Part 1 of 1 Multiple Choice/True False Score: 50 (of possible 50 points) (ADDIONAL) Question 1 of 25 Score: 2 (of possible 2 points) The French court ballet reached its height during the reign of Louis XIV‚ whose very birth had been celebrated by the _______________ of 1639. A. Ballet de la Félicité B. Ballet de la coutisane appelé C. Ballet de Madame D. Ballet de la Déliverance de Renaud ANS:A The dancers in the earliest ballets were highly skilled
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Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969): Major Events in the Life of a Revolutionary Leader 1890 On May 19‚ HO Chi Minh was born the second son to a family of farmers living in Kim Lien‚ a small village in Annam (Central Vietnam). He was born NGUYEN Sinh Cung but later adopted the name Ho Chi Minh (“He who enlightens”). When Ho Chi Minh was born in 1890‚ Vietnam was under French control. The French had split what is known today as Vietnam into three separate states — Cochin
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makes a statement that man always has a choice to act against the scientific laws of nature. Notes from Underground includes Dostoevsky’s response to new enlightenment ideas. Numerous times it mocks the ideas of one philosopher in particular: Nikolai Chernyshevsky. Chernyshevsky published a novel called What is to be Done? In this novel Chernyshevsky claims that man is born with reason and has a natural inclination to cooperate with other people. He states
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Mother Teresa Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997)‚ born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu[1](pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu])‚ was a Catholic nun of Albanian[2][3] ethnicity and Indiancitizenship‚[4] who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta‚ India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor‚ sick‚ orphaned‚ and dying‚ while guiding the Missionaries of Charity’s expansion‚ first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by
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rivets attention on IFRS tax issues. CFO.Com | US‚ Johnson‚ S. (2008‚ December 22). One beneficiary of IFRS switch: The taxman. CFO.Com | US‚ Mirza‚ Abbas Ali‚ Magnus Orrell and Graham J Holt. Wiley IFRS. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ 2008. Nikolai‚ Loren A and John D Bazley. Intermediate Accounting. Thomson South-Western‚ 2003. Watson‚ K. (2008‚ September 30). US prepares for major change; SEC decision means investors will be able to craft decisions based on a single set of principles rather
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The Kronstdat rebellion holds tremendous significance in the shaping of Russia‚ it was the first attempt by the people to achieve a social revolution for themselves as Voline states "the first entirely independent attempt of the people to liberate itself from all yokes and achieve the Social Revolution‚ an attempt made directly‚ resolutely‚ and boldly by the working masses themselves without political shepherds‚ without leaders or tutors."(1)‚ furthermore the the rebellion also highlighted the failure
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leadership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was neither easy nor inevitable. Following the incapacitation and subsequent death of Vladimir Lenin‚ there were many legitimate claimants to this leadership: Grigory Zinoviev‚ Lev Kamenev‚ Nikolai Bukharin and‚ particularly‚ Leon Trotsky‚ Lenin ’s right-hand man and heir apparent. Among such company Stalin - the bureaucrat from humble origins in the Slavic republic of Georgia - seemed unlikely to fill the political vacuum left by Lenin ’s death
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