The Russian Revolution: the Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Black Sea Mutiny, in 1925, a movie was commanded by the Bolshevik power, it was to become the prototype of the political movie. Many governments had banned it for fear of revolutionary popular uprisings. In this movie, Sergei Eisenstein pieces...
What was the impact of the 1967 War on Arab and Palestinian politics?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The period after the Six day war is considered as the key period in the history of the contemporary Arab East where political regimes took a definitive shape. The period between 1967 and 1973 was important in the Arab-Israeli conflict owing to the fear (military) of Israel and the contradictions...
No single explanation can account for the partition of Africa. Discuss.
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In the early 1870s, the European countries had only 10% of the African territories, they were especially situated on the coasts, the majority were just trading posts. In eastern and central Africa, there was an English presence in Sierra Leone (since 1807), Lagos (1861) and Gold Coast (1830), the...
"The impetus for decolonisation rested more with metropolitan initiatives than with African nationalist pressures." Discuss
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The independences of the African countries ran from 1922 (Egypt) to 1990s (Namibia). But these independencies were the result of many decades of evolution; in the colonizing countries policy and in the growing African nationalism. Both aspects were actually very linked; chronologically and by the...
The Russian Revolution : The Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Kronstadt is a naval fortress, built in 1703 by the tsar Peter the Great, on the Kutlin island in the Gulf of Finland, 30 kilometres in the west of Saint Petersburg (which in the early days of the 20th Century was named Petrograd, and then later renamed Leningrad, and is now Saint Petersburg...
US-Japan relations after 1945
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
On the 7th of December 1941, Japanese submarines and carrier-based planes attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, killing 3000 military personnel, and destroying a great part of the fleet. This led to a 4-year war culminating in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a milestone in human history (en...
What were the factors that brought about the 'Prague Spring' of 1968?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
After February 1948, the leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party through Coup of Prague implemented the Stalinist model of political organization, social model and economic development which contrasted profundly with the multiparty system which had featured Czechoslovakia in the First...
