15: The dominant chord in mm. 16-18 in song no. 2. Alfred J. Swan writes that a singer now and then inserts an odd measure into a song spontaneously resulting in the flexibility of the rhythm in Russian folksong. Song no. 2 displays this trait when Shostakovich inserts one additional beat in each of the first three measures of melody A‚ resulting a melody A’ that has a different
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world‚ the Bolsheviks did eventually win the Russian Civil War. But why? Fresh from seizing control of Russia from the hands of the Provisional Government‚ the Bolsheviks’ next step was to safeguard their fragile grip on the reigns of power. Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end to Russia’s role in World War I. He could not‚ however‚ avoid a civil war in Russia. The Bolsheviks were made to fight for control of the country. The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the start
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18 Russian paper #2 Tactics of the Soviets The Soviet Union in the twentieth century was a tumultuous time for Russians who wished to speak their minds and for those who wished to stretch communism to the corners of the globe. With a government consumed by annihilating its opponents and censorship‚ Soviet writers such as Nikolai Bukharin and Grigori Deborin were compelled to depict the glory of communism or face the harshest of consequences. In “Down With Factionalism!‚” Bukharin
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producing an amount of 107‚000 Russian troops lost. Also the Russian Baltic Fleet‚ which had sailed half-way round the world to assist their failing army‚ was completely destroyed by Japanese Ships as it entered the Straits of Tsushima. By this time the Japanese were exhausted and the Russians were almost in Revolution so they signed the Treaty of Portsmouth. The war meant that taxes and therefore prices rose this caused great discomfort and anger among the Russian people. The army was punished for
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How far was WW1 the main cause of the fall of the Romanovs in February 1917? Tsar Nicholas II was the head of the Romanov family who had ruled Russia for five generations from 1613 to 1762. When Nicholas had inherited the throne he married Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse‚ who was from Germany. They had five children together‚ but their popularity was starting to fall by 1914. When there was the outbreak of the war‚ the Russian people criticised Alexandra’s German heritage and Nicholas’s failure
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The February Russian Revolution in 1917 saw the downfall of Tsar Nicholas II‚ the last Tsar in Russia’s history. There were many contributing factors that led to Tsar Nicholas II’S abdication and the fall of his autocratic government‚ including economical aspects. However‚ economical problems were one of many complications facing Russia‚ such as the destruction that was occurring to Russians in World War I‚ and the lack of organisation in the government. All of these factors‚ and more‚ had an equal
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The Russian Revolution that occurred throughout the year in 1917 impacted the future for the Russian people by putting an end to a form of government‚ which had a very small chance of being successful. The Tsars abused the power of the absolute monarchy‚ and this type of government encouraged the Russian Revolution. There was a large difference in wealth‚ education‚ and opinion between the common people and the aristocrats. The commoners began the Russian revolution because Tsar Nicholas II was a
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It could be said that Russian literature did not rise to a powerful and meaningful media until the 17th century‚ when the Russian literary language underwent drastic changes due to the influence of contacts with the West; and as a result it incorporated elements of Greek‚ Latin‚ Polish‚ German‚ French‚ and most recently‚ English vocabulary and syntax. While on the same account‚ there is two sections of this sort of evolved storytelling‚ one being Russian literature that a person might learn in the
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Russian-American Unification in the Mid-Twentieth Century and Alfred Reed’s Russian Christmas Music What makes a piece of music great? Is it the time and place it was premiered? Is its greatness defined solely by the reputation of the composer who wrote it? Why do some pieces become part of a canon of works‚ while others simply disappear in to the volumes of history? I believe it is a combination of all the above; however‚ the greatest element is a piece’s ability to speak to many people
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European Region of Russia The European Russian Region accounts about 22 percent of the Stocked forest land and 24 percent of the growing stock of Russia‚ or 166 million hectares and nearly 20 billion cubic meters. While containing one-fifth of Russia’s coniferous growing stock and forested land‚ a more favourable climate and longer history of human development translates into some two-fifths of the total Russian deciduous forested area and growing stock being sequestered in European Russia. The
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