Russian Influence On The Caucasuss

Countries often develop their political and cultural beliefs over time through the affects from others around them and their skillsets.

Russia, as a country, has had a long and proud history. However, for a small time starting in 1917, things started to take a turn for the worse. There was widespread famine, disease, and killing by the instituted government. There was also no Russia. Instead, there was the glorious United Soviet Socialist Republics, or the USSR. This new country did not come around peacefully, but instead under the 1917 Russian Revolution and the revolting communist Bolsheviks. The Russian people were not in a better condition after the Russian revolution due to Stalin’s leadership of his country; the reason being the GULAGs that Stalin was sending his people to, the communes that the peasants were sent to, and the disastrous effects of his five year plans.

Chechens, who had lived as members of the Soviet Union, were also relocated during World War II. Prior to the formation of the Soviet Union, Chechens had been under Russian rule for two centuries. The North Caucasus came under tsarist rule in the early nineteenth century but fighting between tribes and the Russian army had occurred for much of that time as the tsar attempted to assert his dominance over the region. In 1865, there was a rebellion against the tsarist regime in response to forced resettlement to Turkey. After the October Revolution, Chechnya declared independence from Russia, but were forcibly absorbed into the newly formed Soviet Union after intervention by the Red Army. In 1934, Chechnya joined Ingushetiya to form the

Next, in Chechnya, following along the same lines of political conflicts as Xinjiang, just with a dose of economic and cultural for good measure, the revolution was brought about by the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. After the fall of the USSR and Russia losing its status as a world superpower, Chechnya tried to abandon ship, so to speak. They failed in securing their sovereignty, and in attempting it, caused both

he rise in foreign fighters over the past twenty-five years is a result of an amalgamation of issues relating to globalisation. The breakdown of nations following world war two and the nationalist conflicts that have circulated, culminated in a collapse of the Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet Union continued nationalist and ideological struggles into new territories. Afghan veterans joined movements in Bosnia and Saudi Arabian fighters moved into Chechnya, mobilising to defend what they saw as nationalist or ideological struggles. These struggles have resulted in a commonality across a wider spectrum due to chronic financial volatility and a widening economic divide across the globe where groups feeling left behind faced deepening economic

As a result the Armenians resented the Turks and betrayed them, by joining Russia in the war. Not all Armenians joined Russia, but many did for Russia’s offer of making Armenia independent. In response the Turks hatred grew towards the Armenians because they were not Muslim and now they were fighting for the enemy. “The Armenians were dogs and pigs to be spat on. For the Armenian, neither his property, his house, his life, his person, nor his family was safe from violence and to resist death” (Document 2).

The Turks disarmed the Armenian population under the impression that the people will have sympathy toward Christian Russia population. Armenians who didn't turn in their weapon would suffer severe

by the East Slavs who had pagan beliefs, but in the 10 th century adopted the

Into Eurasia, human migrations happened about 40,000-20,000 years ago from the Middle East to Europe into Asia. Hunting was the way of life so new hunting tools and techniques were being invented such as spear throwers. Cave paintings such as horses, bulls, and reindeer were left to leave history of their own world. Using different colors of red, yellow, brown, and black. Venus figurines were stone, antlers, and mammoth tusk carvings to depict the female form with exaggerated breasts, hips, buttocks, and stomachs.

Both the Russian and the Chinese empires pushed from facing directions across Eurasia beginning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the Eurasian frontiers, Chinese and Russians also viewed their arrangement programs as the sagacity of reclamation into wilderness, ignoring or stop the unconstrained histories of other inhabitants. The common histories of both countries are intimately bound up with their expansion into the Eurasian interior. Although they have maintained public states, different the native Americans, Mongols and other Central Eurasian followers also still find much of their history literal in terms of penetration of their region expanding empires. Here, however I debate

In orders to save lives the Armenian leaders decided to make a deal with the young Turks which did not work. Exile of the Armenians began to happen. Deportation just like the holocaust with the Jewish people. The Armenian Genocide is an important turning point in history because it affected two whole ethic groups and an entire country and still has not been morned over since the Tusks have not yet taken responsibility. Turning points from this event were when the Young Turks became leaders of the Ottoman Empire; When Armenian Leaders went into exile; when the 6,000 Armenians were massacred in the capital; and when Press came into the Ottoman Empire (American). These are all turning points that should be remembered because they all show how exactly the genocide was allowed to happen inside of the Ottoman Empire and the ruthlessness of the empire. This event looks differently through multiple perspectives in the way that there is the Turkish perspective and the Armenian. They will both be very different from each other because one was commuting the crimes while one was dying. The standpoints are political which create the

In 1917 the Russian revolution had began, this was the biggest factor in the fall of the Romanov dynasty. The white Russians arrested the tsarist and abdicated him from his throne putting Nicholas and his family on house arrest and he was no longer known as the Tsar, replacing him with a Bolshevik government. The red Russians had captured Nicholas and his family causing a civil war between the white and red Russians. In July 1918 Lenin and his red Russian squad had won the civil war, and shot Nicholas and his family, leaving Russia a communist country until the 1990’s.

They were treated as second class citizens due to the lack of religious tolerance displayed by the Ottomans. According to Dictionary.com genocide is “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial,political, or cultural group” (np). The Genocide started on April 24, 1915 with the rounding up and execution of over two hundred influential Armenians while leaving their cruelly mutilated bodies in public squares. From this point on Death Marches and raids on churches became the status quo for the Armenian people. Under the guise of deportation out of the war zones affected by the great war, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcefully removed from their homes and brought to death camps. All the able men were inducted into the Ottoman army only to be killed soon after they had done labor for the army.

Like everyone else in my family, I was born in Yerevan, Armenia. My parents decided to move our family to the United States in 2000 to live with my grandfather on my mom’s side. We left our entire family in Armenia to be able to have a better life in the United States. Armenia was a soviet nation and when the USSR collapsed, so did most of Armenia’s economy. People struggled to make money and life there quickly became very hard. My parents always tell me stories of when my brother and I were babies and what our family had to do to be able to provide food and clothes for us. There were certain times a day where families got electricity and water. People that didn’t live in the city lives in ore rural areas that were referred to villages since they were underdeveloped. People in the city lived in apartments. It was very common for people to live with entire families in a small home or apartment. My parents lived in my dad’s family home in the city with his entire family of twelve people. My parents struggled a lot to be able to keep my brother and I comfortable through the freezing winters and scorching summers. Life in Armenia became too hard for them. That’s when they decided it was time to make a huge change and leave everyone we knew behind to move to a foreign nation with a dream of having a better life. We moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to live with my grandfather. I don’t remember much from that time since I was so young, but I do remember how different everything was.

At the time, Russian-controlled Eastern Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan attempted to bond together in the Transcaucasia Democratic Federative Republic. Armenia's borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan are much closed to this day, and a permanent solution to the conflict has not been reached despite the mediation provided by organizations such as the OSCE. Armenia is a member of more than 40 international organizations, including the United Nations; the Council of Europe; the Asian Development Bank; the Commonwealth of Independent States; the World Trade Organization; World Customs Organization; the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation; and La Francophonie. Conversely, Armenia received a large influx of Armenian refugees from