afters months conflict‚ the Tsar gave into the people’s demands and created the ‘October Manifesto’- which promised an elected parliament- the Duma; the right to form political parties; uncensored newspapers; it protected civil rights and set out the Russian people’s political rights. The Revolution began in January 1905 with a massacre occurring on the 22nd of January (Bloody Sunday) acting as a catalyst for revolt. There were many other factors that led to the 1905 Revolution; some were issues that
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The internal and external influences on the Russian class structure along with the failure of the tsarist regime left the country powerless to prevent revolutionary forces from developing or expanding. The advancing social awareness‚ literacy‚ and desire for land rights by the peasant class were an overwhelming and underestimated influences by the intelligentsia‚ provisional government and the tsarist regime. These described cultural changes and leadership failures‚ coupled with an the paralysis
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The February Russian Revolution in 1917 saw the downfall of Tsar Nicholas II‚ the last Tsar in Russia’s history. There were many contributing factors that led to Tsar Nicholas II’S abdication and the fall of his autocratic government‚ including economical aspects. However‚ economical problems were one of many complications facing Russia‚ such as the destruction that was occurring to Russians in World War I‚ and the lack of organisation in the government. All of these factors‚ and more‚ had an equal
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The Russian Revolution that occurred throughout the year in 1917 impacted the future for the Russian people by putting an end to a form of government‚ which had a very small chance of being successful. The Tsars abused the power of the absolute monarchy‚ and this type of government encouraged the Russian Revolution. There was a large difference in wealth‚ education‚ and opinion between the common people and the aristocrats. The commoners began the Russian revolution because Tsar Nicholas II was a
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George Balanchine for The Ballet Society - In 1946 Balanchine and Kirstein collaborated again to form Ballet Society‚ a company which introduced New York subscription only audiences over the next two years to such new Balanchine works as The Four Temperaments (1946) and Stravinsky’s Renard (1947) and Orpheus (1948). - On October 11‚ 1948‚ Morton Baum‚ chairman of the City Center finance committee‚ saw Ballet Society in a City Center Theater program that included Orpheus‚ Serenade‚ and
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producing an amount of 107‚000 Russian troops lost. Also the Russian Baltic Fleet‚ which had sailed half-way round the world to assist their failing army‚ was completely destroyed by Japanese Ships as it entered the Straits of Tsushima. By this time the Japanese were exhausted and the Russians were almost in Revolution so they signed the Treaty of Portsmouth. The war meant that taxes and therefore prices rose this caused great discomfort and anger among the Russian people. The army was punished for
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Ballet Pioneers and Icons George Balanchine was born in Russia to a promising future of Ballet. Balanchine’s father was a composer which led to Balanchine studying the piano. When he was ten years old‚ he began lessons at the Imperial Ballet School where he learned Russian styles of dance. He went to the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music to study piano and also to continue his study of ballet. Balanchine gathered a group of dancers to present his choreography until a manager of the Ballet
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Ballet is a complex mixture of technique and basically a fair bit of coordination and musicality (which is feeling and moving with the music). You have to perform it confidently and it has to fit the mood of the dance and music. Ballet was considered as a classical form of art. The beauty of this dance type was considered timeless and unchanging. It was considered as an art in itself . The movement of the ballerinas represented years of training It was an art form that entailed perfection
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It could be said that Russian literature did not rise to a powerful and meaningful media until the 17th century‚ when the Russian literary language underwent drastic changes due to the influence of contacts with the West; and as a result it incorporated elements of Greek‚ Latin‚ Polish‚ German‚ French‚ and most recently‚ English vocabulary and syntax. While on the same account‚ there is two sections of this sort of evolved storytelling‚ one being Russian literature that a person might learn in the
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Works of Kazakh and Russian Artists Course: Arts History (ART1303) Instructor: Camilya Karabayeva Spring 2009 Outline I. Introduction (Malika) The essay below demonstrates the main distinctive features of Kazakh artists’ art pieces with the Russians ones II. Main Body a. Comparison of Abylkhan Kasteev’s works with the famous Russian artist Iliya Glazunov (Saniya) b. Comparison of Zhanatai Shardenov’s works with the outstanding Russian artist Ivan Shishkin
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