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    Chapter 27 Study Guide 1. The process of industrialism threatened traditional and social hierarchies in both societies. In Russia‚ the aristocracy was threatened by the abolition of serfdom‚ the creation of regional zemstvoes‚ and reforms of the army. In Japan‚ the samurai were almost destroyed by the fall of the shogunate‚ the destruction of feudalism‚ and military reform. Both nations used territorial expansion as a means of mollifying the aristocracy and building support for the imperial government

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    The Soviet Union collapsed nearly 30 years ago‚ but many of the former Soviet republics are still struggling to find its place in the modern world. In The Marlboro Men of Chernivtsi by Andrew W. Jones from the Morning News‚ Jones recalls an eye-opening experience he had in Ukraine in which he unknowing got involved in a minor cigarette smuggling operation. The experience leads him into researching about the causes of international cigarette smuggling and its effects on Eastern Europe. The story begins

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    MY UNUSUAL VACATION * Sulaiman Danjuma Travelling has always been a passion of mine. Being an amateur photographer‚ I find seeing new places‚ meeting new people and getting to know different cultures‚ exceptionally inspiring. By the age of 32 I had already been to the majority of exotic places: the Emirates‚ Ethiopia‚ Turkey‚ India‚ Laos‚ Thailand‚ Japan‚ Egypt‚ Australia and Cuba. So‚ when a friend of my dad who was working as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ukraine invited me to visit him

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    under their territory. At the point when Alexander II took the crown of Russia in 1855 he acquired a potential emergency that debilitated to fall the Russian Empire. Issues all through the Empire extending from parts of Finland to Poland‚ and also Crimea and numerous innate clashes extended the Russian economy to the edge of fall. Russia realized that inside a couple of months an aggregate thrashing in the Crimean War was up and coming and that would mean the total embarrassment of Russia on a worldwide

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    The painting The Charge of the Light Brigade shows the charge of the British Light Cavalry Brigade during the Crimean War in the early 1850s. In this paper‚ we will be discussing the various aspects of the painting‚ including a description‚ the context that surrounds the painting‚ the function of the painting‚ and an analysis of the painting. The easiest thing to observe about any given work of art is what type of art is it and it’s respective colors. The Charge of the Light Brigade is a painting

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    Electoral Authoritarianism After the fall of the Soviet Union in December of 1991‚ the political actors in Russia had a choice to push for either a democratic or authoritarian regime. The political actors opted to advance an authoritarian regime‚ and used a façade of democratic practices to legitimize the new government and establish antidemocratic policies. The initial push toward an authoritarian regime put Russia on a path gradually leading away from not only democracy but also freedom itself

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    intense‚ and power of the government. For instance‚ the bubonic plague‚ also known as the “black death”‚ spread around at rapid speed. According to the Black Death document‚ “The plague infected the Indians in India‚ the Sind‚ the Persians‚ and the Crimea. … killing daily one thousand or more and destroying the population.” Many knights died because of the crusades‚ some of their man were eventually killed through head being cut off.” Some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads

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    connections with Iranian Armenians. They were a community that was an important passage of trade and influence between Russia and Iran for a long time. The biggest threat to the Russian empire were the Turks. During this time they had partial control over Crimea which was a penninsula in Russian empire territory‚ but they still managed to have some power of this area. The Turks

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    I happen to agree with you about the "weakest pillar" question. It seemed to me that the focus of Gerschewski was to point out that each pillar plays an important and relevant role within the stabilization of autocratic regimes. When it comes to Putin’s control‚ it seemed in my opinion that each pillar was in play. The first pillar refers to legitimation‚ in which the elite attempts to gain support from the public. This was done before Putin had even become the president. Putin was heavily involved

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    Rationale: The media has a rather tremendous power regarding setting political discourse. Favoritism in the media front has been increasingly growing in a pernicious weed kind of way. The article is related to media simply by being a written source. The writer of this article did so without reflecting on the meaning and support that the assumptions and premises had on the practice. The article relies on a narrow number of sources to come up with conclusions and lacks diversity in its premises.

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