Leading up to the Russian Federation the Russians signed a treaty ending the war they were in with Germany. This treaty, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, made Russia lose large amounts of territory. This treaty also took Russia out of World War I.
The Russian empire starts to collapse in 1918. During this same year Russia has a civil war. This war is between the Red army and the White Russians, also known as the anti-communists. The White Russians were aided by France, Britain, and the United States.
In the seventy years following the year 1922 Russia will become part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. While the Soviet Union collapses Russia became independent. Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia form the Commonwealth of Independent States. Eventually, all the former Soviet Union is joined except the Baltic States. Russia then takes the place of the Soviet Union on the United Nations Security Council.
In September of 1993 President Borlis Yeltsin suspends the current parliament and announces that they need a new election. The MPs barricade themselves in the parliament building. In October of this year the President orders the Russian army to attack the parliament building. This fight was bloody, but the army got the building back. By December the Russians approved a new constitution. This constitution provided the President with an abundance of power.
In 1995 the Communist party won the largest fraction of votes in the election. This gave the party more than a third of the seats in Duma.
The next year, 1996, Yeltsin is re-elected for another term of being President. He signs a group of treaties all providing peace and boundaries with countries Russia had been at war with.
Two years later Yeltsin fires h...
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...do it. The Chechen government, however, blamed the Russian government for provoking the attack.
In August of 2004 a school bloodbath occurs. It results in 330 deaths, most of which happened to be children. This too, was blamed on a different government.
Over the next 3 years many bombings and deaths occur for different reasons. Some bombings by Chechen rebels others by other extremist.
In this time Russia will also develop their submarines, get saved by other countries, sign a list of treaties, and back out of a few treaties as well. Russia also cuts off it’s oil supply to Ukraine. Moscow claims that the cause is because of prices, while different sources say that it all was because of politics.
This government is the government that Russia still has at the present day. They are still dealing with everyday problems, just like we here in the U.S. are.
The tragedy that happened in Newton, Connecticut swept the world with a variety of emotions. Many individuals became angry or saddened by the tragedy. I think more of the individuals were angry of what happened to those 20 innocent children. Parents send their children to school thinking that they are safe but in this case ended in tragedy. I am going to discuss similarities and differences between two articles. I am also going to discuss how this shooting is a symbolic crime, how likely policy changes will be enacted and how unlikely they are to be enacted.
The events surround the deaths of four students in Kent, Ohio are disorderly and violent. In the government’s investigation after the shootings, the officials made several recommendations to students of the future. As the massacre is looked back upon, there are several key events that
By 1928, Stalin had ousted Trotsky and the rest of the Left opposition. In four years, Stalin had single handedly taken major steps away from Lenin’s collective leadership and free inter party debate and replaced them with his autocratic dictatorship. Stalin began to secure predominant power over the communist party and the state by destroying passive opposition from the peasantry and former Lenin supporters. He won growing support from the working class who were impressed with the initial five-year plan. As it promised increased industrialization, which would lead to socialism in one country within their lifetime.
Russia entered the war when Nazi Germany executed Operation Barbarossa. They missed their start date by 3 months and that would lead to one of the many problems Nazi Germany faced during the war on the Eastern front. Russia delivered Germany their biggest defeats including The Battle of Stalingrad and the battle of Kursk. Without these two battles Germany would not have had the significant personnel and supplies lost they faced for the final 3 years of the war.
...nternational community, but isolating the government does not mean isolating the people of Russia, because of the current technological development that was not present on time, even though the government is trying to suppress the freedoms. (McFaul, 2014)
The big crisis in Ukraine is starting to get out of hand. The government cannot even figure out what to do, and is getting kicked out of office. There are street protests happening all over Ukraine, especially at Kyiv’s Independence Square. There is civil unrest against Yanukovych because he did not do what the people wanted. After everything is starting to cool down, Russian troops start to enter the country.
Their government is similar to democracy, but contains a president, a prime minister, a judicial branch, and a Russian Federation Assembly (State Duma and the Federation Council). Power is split between the Prime Minister (Dmitry Medvedev) and the President (Vladimir Putin); however, the president has deciding power (Darlington, 2014). Unlike many immigrants, Russians did not necessarily immigrate to the United States overseas. Due to overpopulation, political disruption and famine, many Russian citizens could not endure the lifestyle any longer, thus causing them to leave home in search of a new start. This is where the Russians found a large quantity of land and claimed it theirs: Alaska (Library of Congress).
A temporary government was set up to decide on what kind of government Russia was going to set up. Two political parties were set up. The Bolsheviks were one of the two. The leader of the Bolshevik party was a man named Lenin. Lenin was a firm believer in the theories and ideas of Karl Marx.
Russia lost many men in the battle which made them lose the war and they had to pay back. When they lost this caused the Russian economy to crash and by that caused the Russian revolution. The Russian Revolution began in 1917 after Russia lost many wars which made the economy weak. During the 1914 in World war 1 Russia had lost many supplies and military men and Russia lacked good leadership. Tsar Nicholas was in control of Russian government and the army and he refused to share his power with the masses. Then the Duma Parliament in the summer of 1915 demanded the government with democratic values and to show responsibility to the citizens in the country that needed help. However, later that year Nicholas eliminated the Duma and went to war. Tsar Nicholas left the country to be destroyed. Then the government was taken over by Tsarina Alexandra Nicholas wife. She attempted to rule absolutely in her husband’s absence by firing and electing officials of her
During this time, Russia became embroiled in a long, bloody civil war, fought between the Bolshevik Red Army, founded by Vladimir Lenin and lead by Leon Trotsky, and the White Army, the anti-Bolshevik forces. On December 30, 1922, the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR was signed, and in 1923, the Bolsheviks finally emerged victorious over the White Army.
Russia had been defeated in all except the war with Turkey and its government and economy had the scars to prove it. A severe lack of food and poor living conditions amongst the peasant population led firstly to strikes and quickly escalated to violent riots. Tsar Nicholas II ruled Russia with an iron hand while much of Europe was moving away from the monarchical system of rule. All lands were owned by the Tsar’s family and Nobel land lords, while the factories and industrial complexes were owned by the capitalists’. There were no unions or labour laws and the justice system had made almost all other laws in favour of the ruling elite.
This turned into a revolt against Czar. By the year of 1917 lots of Russian citizens lost faith in their leader Czar Nicholas II. The citizens lost faith in Czar’s leadership due to the governments corruption, Russia’s economy, and Czar constantly affecting the success of the Duma ( the Russian legislative assembly established by Czar Nicholas II in 1905) .This impacted Russia in a disastrous way, which caused Czar Nicholas II to be overthrown. A few months later after Czar was overthrown, the new provisional government was overthrown by Bolsheviks.
Russia culture is very different from any other culture that I have ever read about. This is a country that is dominated by males. Males actually run the county of Russia. The men are so dominated that every Russian women dream is to be married and have a family with these men. Russia is known for its poor society. In the book Sakharov he mentions how he moved from one place to another. He first was in Moscow’s larger apartments with his family. In this apartment there were six families. With thin the six families they had to share the kitchen and the bathroom. Then he states that he moved into a very old house and in this old house there was a leaking ceiling. With in this house there were still six families that shared everything. (Sakharov 24-25)
The Russo-Chechen war that ended in 1996 should have given the Russian government a feel of things to come when they decided to attack in late September of last year. Triggered by security challenges to the State, Russia decided that the democracy would be in danger if they didn’t act. Russia was in a politically unstable situation right now with the resignation of Yeltsin, and the current Presidential elections looming. Also looming on the political horizon was the concern over rampant corruption in the government. If they had done nothing Yeltsin’s party would have stood to lose, yet Putin, (Yeltsin’s successor) succeeded in focusing the medias attention on the war rather that the domestic corruption.
Furthermore, the Ukraine and Russia have always shared a history; as both states are embodiments of the process of transformation, that have risen from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of the Cold War. The Ukraine’s material legacy is demographically and territorially close to Russia, thereby, tying the Ukraine to Russia.