Wassily (Vasily) Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow the capital of Russia. Kandinsky had a wealthy father who was a tea merchant and mother therefore he had a wealthy childhood. Kandinsky most loved hobby was art and music. Kandinsky spent his childhood years in a thriving city known as Odessa, which was populated with Mediterranean, Western Europeans and many other ethnic groups. Kandinsky family structure was very divers. Kandinsky’s mother was a Muscovite, his father was considered
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together in defeated Germany along a north-south line and that only Soviet troops would liberate eastern Europe (basic shape of postwar Europe was emerging already) When the Big Three met again in February 1945 at Yalta on the Black Sea in southern Russia, the Red Army had occupied Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, part of Yugoslavia, and much of Czechoslovakia while the American-British forces had yet to cross the Rhine into Germany; on the other hand, United States was far from defeating Japan
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If it was to be weakened, it would have negatively affected his position within Russia’s social hierarchy. Ironically, with the devastation that World War One was to cause in Russia, it was Rasputin who told Nicholas not to go to war as he had predicted that Russia would be defeated. Rasputin had always clashed with the Duma. They saw his position within the monarchy as a direct threat to themselves. Alexandra responded to their complaints about Rasputin’s power by
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1989-1991 saw the end of the Cold War. George Bush took office that year. He and Gorbachev's organizations were exceptionally careful about one another, and did not predict the Cold War finishing at any point in the near future. Then again, the occasions of the 1980's had so debilitated Communism that it would just take moment changes from apparently insignificant pioneers and people to bring the whole Soviet framework down. Hungary had constantly sought after freedom from the USSR. By 1989, its
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Jan Zizka was born in 1370 and is known as the commander of the Bohemian military as well as the spearhead leader behind the forces that led against Hussite forces during the anti-crusades of Roman Emperor Sigismund. Before Jan Zizka became a commander and conquer, though, he served under many other lords. For example, in 1410 he fought with the winning Polish in the battle of Tannerburg, having defeated the Teutonic Knights there. It wasn’t until the Hussite Wars, however, that Zizka’s military
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of the Soviet Union while under Stalinist rule. Stalin managed to transform Russia into a major military and industrial power, however, he faced significant civil unrest, economic instability, and massive peasant casualties. Stalinist rule stripped the Russian people of their freedoms, punished transgressions harshly in order to keep people in line, and sacrificed the lives of millions of peasants in order to force Russia to evolve into a major military power. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Joseph Stalin’s motives for his genocidal tendencies came from the Country’s need to be strong and unified. In order to put forward a plan of being strong and unified Stalin starts a mass genocidal famine that killed many people and nearly destroyed Russia. Stalins collectivized farms and the famines that were caused by it created genocide rivaled by few tyrants before and even after. The main topics we will be going over will be Collectivized Farms; Deportation of Farmers; The mass Famine; Response
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Sputnik was a satellite launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. It was the first artificial satellite launched into space. Sputnik was a small satellite, only being 22 inches in diameter and weighing 184 pounds. The launch of the satellite marked the beginning of the space race between America and the USSR. The Soviets claimed Sputnik was used to study the Earth’s atmosphere and the solar system. However, many Americans believed feared the Russians’ new technology. AMerican scientists
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Based off of my knowledge in world history the US is more of an empire than a superpower. An empire is an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority formerly an emperor or empress. A superpower would act as if it were a very powerful and influential nation. Totalitarian government had three basic characteristics one of the rules was ruled by a single ruler with instructed power . The second used violence and also intimidated to maintain power. Finally, third people were
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style and the special way he wrote especially about emotions and the feelings surrounding characters as is the story of his upbringing, the people that influenced him and his life. Anton Chekhov’s family can be traced back to at least the 1600’s in Russia and they were all in the lowest class of people, they were serfs through the lifetime of Anton’s Great-grandfather, Mikhail Chekhov who live from 1762 until 1849. Mikhail Chekhov was a hard man who even as adults required his five sons to call “him
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