RUSSIAN CULTURE AND BUSINESS ETIQUETTE
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3a) Why did Stalin introduce the Five-Year Plans and did they achieve for Russia what Stalin had planned for? Explain your answer. [12] In 1929‚ Stalin took over Russia who was considered one of the most backward economies in Europe. The Russian economy was in a very bad state‚ many of the factories were run-down and most people could not fend for themselves. Hence‚ to improve the economic conditions of Russia‚ Stalin set about transforming her economical and agricultural sectors by introducing
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The country I chose for my Culture Analysis paper is Russia. The history of Russia is the Viking Rurik came to Russia in 862 and founded the first Russian dynasty in Novgorod. The various tribes were united by the spread of Christianity in the 10th and 11th centuries; Orthodox Christianity has had an immense effect on the Russian Culture. It influences politics‚ art‚ and nearly every other aspect of Russian culture. The Orthodox followers feel a strong sense of community and brotherhood towards one
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I couldn’t find much information on Russia in the book or on the website‚ so I’m going to base my analysis of Russian culture on my experience. Power Distance Index. I believe that power distance index in Russian culture is quite high‚ as there is a huge gap between upper and lower classes‚ and not really such a thing as middle class. Spain on the other hand has quite a common power distance index for Europe – 52. Its about 40 to 50 in Europe‚ which means that people do understand that there are
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Hugo Blaschke was a Dentist from Germany. He was best known for his services during World War 2. During the war he was promoted and served as Hitler’s Dentist. After the war he was questioned about Hitler’s body and sent to prison. Later released and continued to practice as a dentist.in Nuremberg. Hugo Blaschke was a German dental surgeon notable for being Adolf Hitler’s personal dentist from 1933 to April 1945 and for being the chief dentist on the staff of Heinrich Himmler. Heinrich was a leading
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb Although Japan had an estimated army of 5‚000‚000 men‚ they were on the verge of imminent collapse and the two atomic bombs that were dropped on them were not necessary to obtain Japan’s surrender. America’s primary reason for using the atomic bombs on Japan was to intimidate the Soviet Union so that the Soviet Union would stay out of the war with Japan and to demonstrate our world dominance‚ rather than dropping the bombs solely to induce Japan’s unconditional surrender
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The case of the transportation of nuclear waste is topic that can cause strong feelings and reactions to the uncertainties and risks associated with this form of pollution. Now we are going to refer to each of the four key concepts of globalization to see what the notion tells us about the processes at work in this case study. The stretching of social relations in space is clear. The decisions taken about nuclear power and its production in the one-time USSR had horrible effects far away from
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Kapuściński’s book Imperium details his experience in Soviet Russia during the height of Stalinism‚ after the Berlin Wall fell‚ and after the fall of the Soviet Union in its entirety. Kapuściński was a Polish journalist who was seven when he first experienced the wrath of the Soviet Union‚ an experience that colors how Kapuściński sees the Soviet Union later on in this book and his life. The word ‘imperium’ that is found several times throughout this book and is the title is defined by Kapuściński
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Poland Has Not Yet Perished was written two years after the third partition of Poland of 1795‚ and was later adopted as the Polish national anthem in 1926 in the same year of Pilsudski military coup and exemplifies not only the struggles Poland has suffered‚ but the resilience of the Polish people in the face of these struggles and their determination to take back what is theirs despite the odds. The song itself was written as a means to boost the morale of Polish soldiers fighting in Napoleon’s
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1. Evaluate the impact of conversion to Christianity on Kievan Rus. The conversion of the Kievan people to the Christianity took place when the rivalry between Constantinople and Rome on converting pagan peoples in the northern Europe reached its peak in the tenth century. Although the breakup of two churches happened in 1054‚ the Russian allegiance to Byzantium helped to determine much of the subsequent history of the country. The Prince of Kiev‚ Saint Vladimir Svyatoslavich‚ the baptizer of the
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