I used to tell people that I loved Russia, because I do. I think everybody has a country not their own that they’re powerfully drawn to; Russia is mine. I can’t explain the attraction, only observe its symptoms going back to childhood, such as listening over and over to Prokofiev’...
After his prison camp conversion to Christianity, he finds himself struggling to regain "everything that had survived the journey through three decades of godless living and atheistic delirium." But in postwar Moscow, where most of the story takes place, times are good. Stalin himself, "a ...
What was life in Russia like under Stalin? Who is Vlad the Impaler? Who was Leon Trotsky? What happened to Tsar Nicholas and his family? How did Vladimir Lenin die? What year did Vladimir Lenin bring communism to Russia? What is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn best known for?
It is Germany under Hitler, Russia under Stalin, and Italy under Mussolini." (The Millennial Messiah, pp. 54-55.)Contemporaneous Quotation about Joseph Smith"We the undersigned [sixty-two (62) residents of Palmyra NY], have been acquainted with the Smith family, for a number of years, whil...
What country suffered the most under Stalin's Great Famine? What factors led to the end of the Cold War? What did Russia gain from the Yalta Conference? Who was president during the Korean War? What was the Korean conflict? What happened to South Korea after the Korean War? Who attacked...
"It seems to me that this attempt to build a communist republic on the basis of a strongly centralised state, under the iron law of the dictatorship of one party, has ended in a terrible fiasco. Russia teaches us how not to impose communism." [Peter Kropotkin, quoted by Guerin, Anarchism...
Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. Maestro Nikolai Masoudov (Tognazzi), a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret (Farmer), are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate (Tadic). The Satan - Woland (Cuny)...
How did that expansion stabilise or destabilise the region - in relation to Russia? What was the outcome of major showdowns between The Federal States ofEuropeand America through 2020-2030? How did the European Union cope with massive influx of foreign nationals? What happened to national parlia...
Soviet Russia and the whole of the Soviet Union found itself under the authoritarian rule of Josef Stalin, the dictator who implemented collectivist policies,gulags, and other repressive tactics to maintain his power. Standards of living declined and people struggled to survive, often scrounging for ...
What happened to Alexander Kerensky after the revolution? On 7 November,his government was overthrown by the Lenin-led Bolsheviksin the October Revolution. He spent the remainder of his life in exile, in Paris and New York City, and worked for the Hoover Institution. ...