Political Issues In Russia

Slavery lives on all era in world history till lately, but its life has not constantly had the similar economic trait. Two questions ought to be answered to properly examine any definite cause of slavery: (1) what further systems of labor live in the civilization also to slavery? And (2) what system of labor is leading? In this manner we can make a difference among ancient slavery (e.g., in Greece and Egypt where free farmers live together with slaves, but slavery was leading) and antebellum slavery in the United States (which live together with free farmers, but was conquered by the industrially-based capitalism of the urban North). The past dominance of capitalism in the United States made antebellum slavery the most uncivilized system of slave work. Not

Feudalism – a social structure and hierarchy containing mutual duties and obligations. Stability is maintained as long as the system doesn’t change. Physical power resides with the king and nobles through their knights. The Church’s power resides through controlling people’s beliefs. Serfs were tied to the land. The Black Death, however, brought about such massive changes in demographics / population that the demand for a limited labor source (the peasants) meant that this social group at the bottom of the social ladder grew in importance (as seen in the 1381 Peasants revolt) that drastic change and the end of the feudal structure was inevitable.

3. Use source F and your own knowledge to explain why there was social unrest in Russia between 1890 and 1914.

Slavery (the ownership of another human as one’s own property) is one of the oldest traditions in human history. History shows that ancient Rome and Greece valued their wealth upon the number of slaves an individual owned. Their service was to provide slave labor for their owners. As time progressed, slavery began to evolve into something much different– especially in the North American colonies. A new nation was emerging, fueled by a drive for expansion and a growing economy. The United States exploited African Americans through racial slavery to fill the labor shortage and created a system that stripped them of their basic rights, dignity, and created social barriers to ensure their subservience to Southern society.

The institution of enslaved people was first introduced in America during the first settlers in what was considered the colonies. The early forms of labor forces were both the indentured servants and African slaves. There was a need for labor because early settlers began to make their mark on the new land by profiting on a new found crash crop tobacco. The

Dehumanize: to treat someone as though he or she is not a human being (Merriam-Webster). This word and its definition can describe the treatment of multifarious groups of innocent people in this world 's past. Slavery is modeled after the domestication of animals (Digital History). During the Agricultural revolution, humans started to domesticate animals. This could have led the move to human domestication. Slavery was used in one of the earliest civilizations, Mesopotamia (Mark). In Hammurabi’s Code many of the laws had protocol that dealt with slaves and slave owners, showing that slavery was present in the civilization.

Some people even believe that slavery was actually formed back in the early BC when most slaves were from conquered tribes. There was no real distinction in most races so it was by territory. The slavery involving the early US was based on a way to make the act seem less inhuman so there were stereotypes and negative things made up to justify the act. As well as put up by a person before me debt slavery came to in later time when the land system to pay for things changed into a cash system so families would sell there own kids to be able to get money and for there kids to be able to eat. That was in Mycenaean time and then since the Greek civilization formed from the Mycenaean civilization it carried over. Egyptians more commonly used slavery as a way to show that they had defeated and conquered enemies because they were conquered earlier by the Hyokos tribe in 1600 B.C. and before they were overthrown and the "New Kingdom" became about they were used as slaves in there own area. Then Persians used them and so did Greeks.

The practice of slavery dates to prehistoric times, although its institutionalization probably first occurred in early historical times, when agricultural advances made possible more highly organized societies (Franklin, Moss 1994: 463). According to Frankin and Moss slaves were needed for various specialized functions in these societies and were obtained either through raids or conquests of other peoples or within the society itself, such as when some people sold themselves or their family members to pay debts or were enslaved as punishment for crimes.

The history of Russia is wrought with inconsistencies and discord. Flawed with unjust social constructs and plagued constantly by the dichotomous relationship between authority and the people, Russia, since it’s upbringing, had always been one step behind it’s eastern neighbors. And in this rat race to stand among the Europeans, the identity and essence of Russia was always in a state of question. As a result, Russia was constantly struggling to find it’s place within a global narrative. It was Russian philosopher Petr Chaadaev, who in 1829, wrote, “We do not belong to any of the great families of the human race. We are neither of the West nor of the East, and we have the traditions of neither.” It is a wonder that Chaadaev, in the years of such turbulent changes, was able to identify such metaphysical traits of the nation. But while Chaadaev highlights the indisputable “sui generis" nature of Russia in context with the European nations, perhaps it was too presumptuous to say that this uniqueness resulted in the lack of culture and tradition from both East and West. As the three momentous periods of Russia, the formation, the imperial, and the formation of the soviet, may suggest, rather than a nation outside of East or West, Russia is an amalgamation of elements from both, existing between the dichotomous East and West.

Nationalism has been on the rise in Russia ever since their embarrassing defeat in 1989 when the Soviet Union fell. However, the world has seen a recent upsurge in racist and xenophobic sentiments in Russia as well. These feelings can be seen in the population and also in current political occurrences like Vladimir Putin’s invasion into Crimea and his anti-gay laws that have recently been passed. The three main causes of the rise in this type of sentiment are Russia’s economy, immigration, and Putin’s form of nationalism affecting Russia’s population. This paper will discuss one of the three reasons: Putin’s form of nationalism.

Feudalism was a political and economic system in the Middle Ages. It occured from around the 5th century to the 12th century. It is based on land ownership, loyalty, and protective alliances. European feudalism rose when invaders started to attack Europe and it only existed in some parts of Europe. In a feudal system, a lord would grant land called a fief to a worker. This worker was known as a vassal, and in return for getting the land, the vassal would be able to get military protection.

Feudalism had two main roots. One was the sense of honor during wars across Europe in the early Middle Ages, where the knights fought for the honor of their leader, the king, and remained with him until death. In return, the leader rewarded his men with treasures and glory. The second was the system of land lording. In this system, land lords granted land to a person in return for services or on certain conditions. The lord controlled the land and collected taxes. He also supervised the farming of his land while the peasants were farming. Peasants did not belong to themselves, everything like their food, home, and clothes belonged to the lords. Most struggled to produce enough

I would take a risk to assert that at present time Russia does not have an ideology or a system of values able to unite the society. To say in short, I strongly argue that Russia needs a new strategy of development, a new national idea which can replace (or, in fact fill the vacuum remained after the collapse of) the old communist ideology which had been guiding Russian politics for nearly 75 years. We can, of course, discuss about the very necessity and the usefulness of an ideology or a national idea as such and whether it is not a mistake to create any national idea, because this idea may become an idee-fixe, which may mean intolerance to the others.

In 1991, the great social experiment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. The empire spanning almost five centuries, from the remnants of the Golden Horde to Stalin's "new Russia" (Hoskins, 1997) from Poland to the Pacific disappeared, leaving a political-sociological void that is only now moving towards resolution. Still the largest nation in the world (Shultz, 2000), Russia spans two continents, multiple time zones, and a land area that diminishes that of the United States. Although it no longer demonstrates the breadth of cultural conglomeration existing in the era of Soviet existence, the Russian Federation provides for an interesting cultural examination, and will be the basis of this paper.

According to Marx the most important thing about society is the way a society is organized to produce goods and services, also known as mode of production. The relationships among people and people’s relationships to the forces of production are how decisions were made about what to do with the outcomes. The Marxist theory recognizes several typical modes of production and characteristics of different periods in our past history (McIntyre, pg28) These modes of production includes: “Primitive communism” which had no categorized social class structures or capital growth, “Asiatic mode” which is allegedly the original form of society where small groups removes social additions through violence directed at settled or unsettled band groups within a domain. “Ancient mode” is when property is the control of the individual, the forces of production connected with this mode is the widespread use of animals in agriculture, and advanced trade networks.” Feudalism” the property is the