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    RUSSIA  &  THE  SOVIET  UNION  1917-­1941     TIMELINE   1917  -­‐  Bolshevik  or  ‘October’  Revolution   1917  -­‐  Treaty  of  Brest-­‐Litovsk  signed   1918  -­‐  Start  of  the  Civil  War.  ‘War  Communism’  introduced   1919  -­‐  Formation  of  ‘Comintern’     1921  -­‐  End  of  Civil  War.  Kronstadt  uprising.  Introduction  of  the  ‘NEP’.  

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    PETROGRAD‚ Russia - Many protesters lined up on the streets of Petrograd during the past few days. This event is being called the “March Revolution.” The series of events that occurred during the past couple of months has not been kind to the citizens of Russia. Russia is currently under deep turmoil due to the negative effects of warfare. Russian units have not been quite successful during the Great War as they have lost millions. Over the past couple years‚ war excitement had quickly deceased

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    history. Throughout the Russian czarist period‚ to the legacy of seventy years of communism; Russia has been a country marked by strong central state planning‚ a strict command economy and an overall weak market infrastructure (Goldman‚ 2003). Self-interest‚ manipulation and corruption have all been present in the Russian economy‚ and have greatly helped the few as opposed to the many. To this day‚ Russia still struggles with creating a competitive and fair market. Throughout the czarist period

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    Rza Mollaev Pioneer Academy Mr. Triolo Grade Ten AP Comparative Politics April 27‚ 2015 Russia Vocabulary Asymmetric federalism: a system where power is devolved unequally across the country and its constituent regions‚ other than result of specific laws negotiated between the region and the central government. Boris Berezovsky: Russian who became a rich Oligarch by buying up Russian industries after the fall of Communism and the beginning of

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    Introduction The first part of this assignment based around the case study of Carrefour in Russia is to analyse the macro environment in Russia at the time of the case. Opportunities and challenges associated with that environment will also be considered. The best way to understand the macro environment in Russia is to carry out a PEST analysis. PEST stands for the political‚ economic‚ social and technological environments. This type of analysis can be considered an external appraisal of the business

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    For centuries‚ Russia was cut off from most of Western civilization. This is due in part to Russia’s geography. Russia has‚ what is called a natural barrier. Russia’s natural barrier is simply its huge expanse. It is hundreds of miles from Moscow or St. Petersburg to any Western city. This isolation was a hindrance‚ and an advantage throughout history‚ politically‚ socially‚ and economically. Russia’s language is an example of this. It is extremely clear that it resembles no Western European

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    Bolsheviks brought about dramatic changes in Russian society following the 1917 Revolution. They took advantage of the unique time and place and once they had gained control of Russia they were willing to go to any lengths to ensure they remained in power and their Socialist ideals were put into action. The social organisation in Russia was an unjust system of autocracy‚ resulting in a majority of discontent. Russian society consisted of large amounts of peasants who owned a small amount of the land but

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    the Napoleonic wars Russia‚ Prussia‚ Austria‚ and Britain. The Congress of Vienna also reestablished the monarchy in France‚ a feeble attempt to block the spreading of ideas that the French Revolution had produced. The Napoleonic war may also have been a key contributor to the Russian revolution‚ with Russian troops bringing back the ideology they saw in a democratic paris back home‚ and with Marx seeing the working class lead a revolution definitely inspired his own communist party. The Napoleonic

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    A History of 19th and 20th Century Russia A society’s understanding of its history is crucial to a society’s perception and definition of itself. During the 1980s the Soviet Union underwent a cultural revival‚ whereby the Russian people‚ prompted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s invitation to glasnost (more openness)‚ began critically re-examining Soviet and pre-revolutionary history. As the nation engaged in oral discussions and literary readings to study their past‚ they started to reassess the Soviet

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    forest that stretched all the way from Eurasia to the steppe grasslands. The major princes that led to Russia becoming a Legitimate European power was the Princes of Muscovy‚ under the leader ship of Ivan the Great. They led the movement in 1478 that defeated the Golden Horde‚ as well as annexing their neighbor Novgorod (Bulliet‚ 569). After this Ivan the Great and the princes of Muscovy led Russia to become became free of Mongol domination. After this Ivan and the rest of the Russians named Moscow

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