Life Before Politics(Retrieved from his personal website(http://eng.putin.kremlin.ru/bio)
Vladimir Putin is a name that is know around the world. He is the iconic strong Russian President that essentially saved Russia and turning it into the nation that it is today. Putin is an important figure for Russian politics and has an outstanding approval rate in Russia. By analyzing his past and looking at where he came from, his motives and operational code can be better understood. Vladimir Putin was was born on October 7, 1952 in Leningrad. In a biography on his website, he states “I come from an ordinary family, and this is how I lived for a long time, nearly my whole life. I lived as an average, normal person and I have always maintained that connection” (http://eng.putin.kremlin.ru/bio). Putin lived with his mother Maria Shelomova, and his father Vladimir Putin. Putin's father participated in the war and worked as a security guard after. Following the war his family
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He became a law student at Leningrad State University in 1970. He also studied at the KGB school in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. While attending university, Putin had showed a lot of interest in working as an intelligence officer. Putin was aware that he would have to complete his law degree to achieve this goal. In the University, Putin began to put his academics as his primary goal and put his love for sports as a secondary hobby. Following his graduation from Leningrad, he began working in state security agencies. At first he worked as a Directorate secretariat, followed by working in the counterintelligence division. After working in the counterintelligence division he began to draw attention from foreign intelligence officers. They sent him to special training in Moscow at the Andropov Red Banner Institute for about six months. In Moscow, Putin was trained for his special assignment in Germany where he would spend the late
When Stalin was a teenager, he received a scholarship to join a seminary. He went to study priesthood in the Orthodox Church in his home state, Georgia. Stalin slyly began to read, “Communist Manifesto” by the author, Karl Marx. He soon became interested in movements in resisting Russian rules. Soon after, Stalin was banished for missing school quizzes. He claims it was for Marxist Propaganda. After leaving his school, Stalin participated in labor examples and attacks (“Joseph”).
Topic Sentence: Joseph Stalin was the leader of The Russian Revolution and made decisions that immensely impacted Russia’s people and the economy.
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Stalin was “born in Gori, Georgia” as the third and only surviving child of a “cobbler and ex-serf”(Compton’s 403). His true name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. “In 1912 he took the alias of ‘Stalin’, from the Russian word stal, meaning ‘steel”, hence his nickname “Man of Steel”(Compton’s 402). Stalin began his studies at the seminary as a devout believer in Orthodox Christianity, where he was soon exposed to the radical ideas of fellow students. In 1899, just about the time of graduation, he gave up his religious education and to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. In 1902 Stalin was hunted down and arrested by the imperial police for organizing a large worker’s demonstration. A year later he was sentenced to “exile in the Russian region of Siberia, but soon managed to escape and was back in Georgia by early 1904”(Archer 58). When the Russian Social Democratic Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions, Stalin sided with the Bolsheviks, who just happened to be led by Vladimir Lenin. Stalin immediately became a staunch follower of Lenin, studying his every move. He did marry in 1905 but his beloved bride died of tuberculosis two years later. Their son, Yasha, died later in a Nazi Prison camp during World War II. After the Bolshevik’s Civil War victory, Stalin became highly organized and was elected secretary of the Communist Party. “After Lenin’s death, Stalin gradually isolated and shunned his political rivals, especially Leon Trotsky, and by the end of 1929 Joseph Stalin had succeeded in eliminating his opponents and became the supreme leader of the USSR” (Compton’s 404).
Coming from a peasant background, Nikita Khrushchev served as the head of the Ukrainian party organization in the midst of and following World War II. Subsequently, he found himself as a member of the Soviet political elite during the late Stalin period. Following the death of Stalin, a brewing rivalry between Malenkov and Khrushchev manifested itself. It resulted in Malenkov resigning as prime minister in February 1955. The resignation of Malenkov allowed Khrushchev to become the most important figure within the collective leadership.
In 1919, at the age of thirteen, he was allowed to enter the Petrograd Conservatory in Saint Petersburg and studied piano with Leonid Nikolayev. Because the conservatory was poorly funded, it did not have heat; the students had to wear coats, hats and gloves constantly only taking off their gloves when composing. Because of these poor living conditions Dmitri developed tuberculosis of the lymph glands in spring 1923 and had to have an operation. Nevertheless, he completed his final piano examinations at the conservatory in June with his neck still bandaged. Shostakovich, though very intelligent and talented, was seen as immature in his fin...
Donald Trump is a dedicated businessman who wants to make America better. He was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York. His dad, Fred was a successful real estate developer, and his mom was a homemaker (History.com Staff). Trump went to military school from eighth to twelfth grade. However, in the Vietnam War, he was deferred from being drafted four times because he was a student and once because of medical reasons, so he never had to serve in the military
Born Vladimir Ulyanov on April 22, 1870, Lenin grew up a rather lavish lifestyle in the city of Simbirsk (Present day Ulyanovsk) on the Volga River (“Vladimir Lenin Biography”). His parents had six children including him (“Lenin: A Biography). In 1887, his elder brother Alexander was hung for plotting to kill the Tsar (“Vladimir Lenin Biography”). Lenin was only 17. This event greatly affected his youth and it helped bring out the inner rebel within Lenin. Lenin at the time of his brother’s death was studying law at Kazan University (“Vladimir Lenin Biography”). Kazan is city North of Simbirsk and it also lies on the Volga. The same year as his brother death, Lenin was expelled from the University for taking part in a student protest. (“Vladimir Lenin Biograph...
Vladimir Putin is the elected president of the Russian Federation. The former member of the KGB is known to some as a torturer, a tyrant, and a murderer and is known to have plans to recreate the Soviet Union. While saying that letting Crimea become a part of Russia is giving in to Putin’s communist ideals, Crimea is largely Russian, and is not strategically important to the European Union’s goals. Yanukovich’s (The former Prime Minister of Ukraine) security forces fired upon and killed dozens of protestors. He was ousted ...
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, on February 7, 1834. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy was the son of Maria Dmitrievna Korniliev and Ivan Pavlovitch Mendeleev and the youngest of 14 children. Dmitri’s father, Ivan died when Dmitri was still very young and Dmitri’s mother, Maria was left to support her large family. Maria needed money to support all her children, so she took over managing her family’s glass factory in Aremziansk. The family had to pack up and move there.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov better known as Lenin. Lenin was an important part in Soviet Union history . lenin had a determined goal , he wanted power . Lenin was so powerful , he took the practice communism and made it reality throughout Soviet plus other countries he had an influence on. Lenin believed that communism could solve the problems of society , because his brother was killed by a tsarist regime. He started as a politician and war general , he later became the leader of the Soviet Union. Before Lenin was the leader a man named Stalin Ruled Soviet . Lenin despised Stalin , Lenin then started to take control of the states he created.
One of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history, Joseph Stalin was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century (www.bbc.co.uk). Joseph Stalin had a major impact on the Soviet Union and the rest of the world. He changed the world by making the Soviet Union a powerful, modern nation, and also the largest state on Earth through his policies and ideas. He also led the killing of millions of people including commoners who spoke out against him (McKenna 94). He also had the Great Purge, which sent anyone who was not “loyal” to him to camps and executed them. In total he killed about seven times as many people as Hitler did which would probably be about twenty to sixty million people. Stalin also changed the world by helping to start the Cold War, and also some of the countries that aligned with the Soviets in the Cold War are still in poverty because their benefactor crumbled. Stalin was the face of the second world for a chunk of the twentieth century and the Cold war. Stalin also created the Five Year Plan, which was a series of nation-wide economic plans in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by a state planning committee and were general guidelines of the communists used for economic development. During the Cold War Stalin challenged the Allies multiple times trying to win the war and created major damage to a lot of countries including Germany. Competition between the Soviet Union and the United States escalated during the Cold War to a point where nuclear war was not going to be a surprise. Joseph Stalin ended up losing the Cold War, but still created a lasting impression due to his theory of ruling by fear. Stalin also ended the New Economic Plan that Lenin created and then he also forced p...
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Putin joined the KGB upon his graduation in 1975, and then went through a year’s training in Okhta, Leningrad at the 401st KGB school. After his training he worked briefly in the Second Chief Directorate where his duties included monitoring foreigners and consular officials in Leningrad. In The Prince, Machiavelli shares his opinion that “a prince who founds on the people knows how to command and is a man full of heart, does not get frightened in adversity, does not fail to make other preparations, and with his spirit and his orders keeps the generality of people inspired, he will never find himself deceived by them and he will see he has laid his foundations well.” (41).
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born on the eighth of February, 1834 in a small town called Verkhnie Aremzyani in Tobolsk, Siberia to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva. His grandfather was a priest of the Russian Orthodox church. Dmitri was raised as a Christian but later in his life departed from church life and became a bit of a deist. He is believed to be the youngest of somewhere between 11-17 siblings in his family.