Vladimir

Russian government is one of constant ideological change, from the October Revolutionist Lenin to the extreme values of Josef Stalin. It can be argued that power always corrupts, as seen in the character Napoleon from Animal Farm by George Orwell and Vladimir Putin with their characteristics of corruption, centralizing government to suit their own needs, and the use of fear to keep their power. To begin, we will elaborate on corruption. In the beginning of the novel, the animals on Animal Farm conspire

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and President Vladimir Putin’s ascendency in the early 2000s, he and his government have been hell-bent on reclaiming Russia’s old title of a world superpower. In conjunction with his administration, Putin has commandeered Russia’s identity to the narrative of being an energy superpower by using the nation’s most effective weapon: the country’s energy resources. Peter Behr’s article for the Congressional Quarter Global Researcher titled “Energy Nationalism

The infamous novel, Lolita, published by Olympia Press in 1955, was written and influenced by the life of its author, Vladimir Nabokov. His other well-known pieces, Pale Fire and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, as well as some of his minor works, are similarly influenced by the life and mind of Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov was certainly a genius; his writings reflect his intellectual prowess and desire to manipulate the reader’s own intellect and values. His intimate relationships with his wife

power to manipulate their constituents. The Stasi, the former official state security of Eastern Germany, is commonly referred to as one of the most oppressive secret police agencies to have weald any political power. In present day Russia, President Vladimir Putin exploits his extreme qualities of masculinity to promote and carry through a specific agenda. Both forms of manipulation are incredibly harmful tactics to further control the people of non-democratic societies. The Stasi, formally known as

leaders of the 20th century, Vladimir Lenin, made a huge impact on the world. He was revolutionary, and whether you love him or hate him, he was a man with ambition. He was the founder of the Soviet Union and formed the country that sparked an intense rivalry with the United States and put a new form of government into place. This was a man with ambition to get rid of capitalism and change the ways of Russia. From his birth, to his career, and up until the day he died, Vladimir Lenin had a very interesting

"Distracted by his charm, his wit, his intelligence, and - yes - his murderer's fancy prose style, we may momentarily forget that he is indeed the monster he says he is" (Rivers and Nicol 153).        In his "On a Book Entitled Lolita", Vladimir Nabokov recalls that he felt the "first little throb of Lolita" run through him as he read a newspaper article about an ape who, "after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed

The popular, the majority, the working class, the predominant, the masses. There are countless terms available to describe who has the most socio-political power, the most weathered; the proletariats. In Vladimir Lenin’s eyes, in a capitalist society a proletariat is the term used to describe the working class, the class that does not have ownership of any means of production(land and capital) and whose sole income source derives from labor. The minority, who own the majority of the wealth, the

Bolshevik power, during the period of 1917 to 1924, was strongly influenced by Vladimir Lenin’s modification of Communist ideology. In establishing authority, Lenin and the Bolshevik Party undertook numerous actions, including Leninism, the declaration of initial reforms and early decrees, signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, participating in Civil War, initiating principles of War Communism, and forming what came to be known as the New Economic Policy, ‘NEP’. It is evident that through these actions

Russia that shortly after would unify with other countries to form USSR. Socialist regime was established in Russia in 1917 after a revolution knocked down the tsarist monarchy that was in force. After the end of the monarchy, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin initiated the socialist government that defended ideals based on, mainly, Marxist principals. Lenin's government faced a strong opposition from those who supported the tsarist regime what resulted in a long civil war that left Russia devastated

March 18, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the world regarding the annexation of Crimea. A referendum that took place only days before resulted in an 82% turnout rate, with over 90% of the ballots casting in favor of Crimea’s reunification with Russia (“History: What does Crimea,” 2014). Many questioned the reasoning behind Russia’s sudden need to reestablish its hold on Crimea; legally a Ukrainian territory. The Russian- Ukrainian relationship dates back to the ninth to the mid-thirteenth