Thomas Benjamin was enjoying a hockey game on the night of November 16, 1979. The hockey game was held at Romney Arena, located on the campus of State University of New York at Oswego. Thomas feels that the stadium failed to protect him and were negligent to not only him but other people at the game. The stadium is oval shaped and was enclosed with a dasher board that was about one-half feet in height. In front of where that players sat thwere was no protective fencing besides the dasher board and
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Mr. Stalin, a notorious Russian dictator, lived 74 years as one of the most despicable men on the planet. From a life bound for priesthood to protesting with the Bolsheviks, Joseph Stalin, born on December 18, 1878 as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhagashvili, was always a rebellious person. Joseph had a slightly troubled childhood. His parents, better known as Beso and Keke, often abused him. His father, Beso,had drunken rages and that was when most of the abusing took place. Unfortunately for young Joseph
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last Russian Tsar Nicholas II along with his wife and five children, the entire Romanov family, was assassinated. After the assassination of the Romanov family, the Russian Empire was replaced by the Soviet Union changing the county from an Autocracy government to a Communist government. The Soviets Union, Communism, Lenin, Marxism, the USSR; they all sound scary and I would never want to live in a cold, hard country ruled by a dictator. So it will probably surprise you when I say that while I don’t
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The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the dismantlement of communism in Russia. During the era of communism in the Soviet Union, many rich businessmen gained wealth through influencing politicians. However, these oligarchs were either government officials or relatives to government officials, which gave them access to important financial knowledge and decisions that the government imposed. The oligarchs used this advantage to gain massive amounts of wealth. Not only did these rich businessmen gain
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Karen Petrone’s The Great War in Russian Memory brings scholars to the attention of missing Soviet and historian recognition of World War I memory and remembrance. Petrone argues that Russian memory of the Great War was prominently expressed, despite the official reconstruction and censoring of official Soviet records, lack of commemoration, and what previous historians of the historiography suggest. The author has two primary goals; reintegrate the Russian perspective into the fabric of the history
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When considering the Soviet perspective, its leader Joseph Stalin believed that Germany would be busy warring with Britain and France leaving the east out of the picture. However, the French surrender in June, 1940, made Stalin's second guess his previous unconcerned sentiment. Stalin responded by sending Vyacheslav Molotov to the German capital. According to Erickson and Dilks, Molotov was instructed to stall a German invasion of the Soviet Union. Stalin understood that nobody was bold enough to
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Born as Lev Bronstein later changing his name to Leon Trotsky, without doubt did indeed emerge during a time of historic turbulence in Russia and was moulded into the political ideologist and leader he was by the resulting stresses that he had encountered. However whether or not he was a great person in terms of his political savvy and ability to catalyse the change that Russia, in an era of great turbulence desperately needed is another issue that needs to be discussed. He was great in that as an
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Since the emergence of the United States as a dominant world power after World War Two it has only ever been challenged on a governmental, militarily, and economical basis once. This grand enemy of the United States was known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or SU for short). For almost fifty years these two great superpowers competed for influence over the resource rich third world, and many a times almost brought the planet to nuclear war. What is rarely addressed as the cause of
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Fears of Communism Tensions were high and tolerance was low, it was the Cold War, creating the space race and the arms race between America and Soviet Russia. In its midst the Cold War changed the United States dramatically, ranging from political to social problems all around the country. During the Cold War period there were many positive and negative effects on U.S. politics. One political effect on politics in the U.S. was Executive Order 9835 or Loyalty Order. This order requires all federal
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News Story – Oleg Markov, The Belarusian boy taking the AFL world by storm. Oleg Markov is a 20-year-old Belarusian born AFL player, currently playing for the Richmond Football Club. Oleg is the eldest son of parents Valentia and Dmitri who moved to Australia in 1997 when he was only one from their hometown of Belarus, located to the west of Russia. His father Dmitri Markov, holds many pole-vaulting accolades, but none more impressive than claiming the title as world champion in 2001. Dmitri chose
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