Phycosocial risks in Russia Conducted by Ekaterina Reznikova 2013 Introduction 1. Trade unionism * General trends * Most recent trends of the Russian labour movement (2008-2012) * Trade union positions 3.Psychosocial risks: reflection of society mood 4. Comparison of “stress” definition 5.Legal protection of psychosocial occupational risks * Labour law * Civil law * Criminal law 6.Practice 7.Conclusions 8. Appendix 1 - interview
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Stalin’s Influence How can one person convince an entire nation that he is necessary for the growth and success of communism in Russia? After the death of Lenin in 1924‚ Russia was faced with Joseph Stalin who ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist for 24 years. Stalin rarely appeared to be what he really was and consistently was underestimated by his opponents‚ allowing him to gain support and create fear in the Russian people’s lives. Although Stalin faced much opposition‚ his manipulating
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because clearly people where struggling to keep up with Stalin’s grain demand and had to supplement their needs through over means. Moreover‚ weight is given because A. Nove is a modern historian gathering information on the total output of Soviet Russia for his book because he would want this
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Hungary‚ Russia‚ and many others. This led to poverty and chaos‚ and the people were suffering. That is why they started to revolt‚ but the political system was so exhausted after the war that it didn ’t do anything to solve this. <br> <br>The effects of the war sped up the changes. It is an arguable fact‚ whether the war also had a liberating effect. If it did‚ it was greatly affected by the downfall of three empires‚ the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ Tsarist Russia and Keiser ’s Germany. In Russia the tsar
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collectivisation to consolidate his power in the 1930s? Stalin used both collectivisation and industrialisation to consolidate power in Russia during the 1930s. Both policies allowed him to gain control over the economy‚ and to discredit or eliminate his rivals within the Communist Party. Without these programs‚ there could have been no totalitarian rule in Russia. Even before launching his economic program in 1929‚ Stalin used the industrialisation debate of the 1920s to gain ascendancy over
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Political Play in Russia Russia or the Russian Federation (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is the largest country in the world which occupies northern Asia and Easternmost Europe with a total land area of 17‚075‚200 square kilometers. Exercising the executive power of this federation is the Government of the Russian Federation consisting of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation or the Prime Minister‚ deputy chairman and the federal ministers. The federation of Russia is democratic
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survival and development in the East-West political attacks. Russia wants to control Ukraine‚ in order to prevent North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) eastward expansion. On the other hand‚ NATO hopes Ukraine can act as a barrier to prevent Russian expansion. Therefore‚ Ukraine must consider it should be pro-Russia or pro-Europe. Ukraine shares borders with the Russian Federation to the east and northeast and caught between Russia and European Union (EU). Also‚ the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
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Russia: An Identity Crisis Recent years have triggered a rush of attention in the fate of empires. That is to say the attention has been in an interest in their rise‚ decline‚ and fall. Much of the writing on this subject has been intended to serve as assurance‚ or interchangeably‚ warning to the current leading power‚ the United States. This is reasonable. Considerably less attention is paid to what happens subsequently. We overlook the study of what happens when the decline and fall of the empire
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The Rise of Communism in Russia "Unless we accept the claim that LeninÕs coup dÕtat gave birth to an entirely new state‚ and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind‚ we must recognize in todayÕs Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians -- the only empire that survived into the mid 1980’s" (Luttwak‚ 1). In their Communist Manifesto of 1848‚ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which all class differences would disappear
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mediation by the French presidency of the European Union‚ the parties reached a preliminary ceasefire agreement on 12 August‚ signed by Georgia on 15 August in Tbilisi and by Russia on 16 August in Moscow. Several weeks after signing the ceasefire agreement‚ Russia began pulling most of its troops out of uncontested Georgia. Russia established buffer zones around South Ossetia and created checkpoints in Georgia’s interior. These forces were eventually withdrawn from
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