What are the similarities and differences in the of development of Germany and Russia from 1900 to 1950?
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They started off already from very different levels of industrialization and education of the population.\nGermany as one country just started to be (http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/germany/bismarck.html), Russia was an empire under the Tsar for a long time already.\n\nCheck your history books regarding WW I and the consequences.\nCheck your history books regarding the October Revolution.\n\nRussia lost most of its intelligentsia in the civil disorder following the October Revolution. Germany lost most of its intelligentsia at the end of WW II.\n\nBoth had to rebuild from scratch after WW II. The Soviet Union used material from Germany to kick start their industry after WW II.
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http://www.germany-info.org/ \n\nTons of information here. It is always updated.
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Ok.....a full answer to this would take 200 pages minimum.  This is the stuff graduate thesis are made of....but to summarize.........\n\nYou have to change how you view what WW2 was.  It was essentially a late and last ditch effort for a newly resurgant Russian and German empire to expand territory.  Both countries have always had flexible borders (borders that often change) over their histories.  And Russia in particiular has always sought expansion for warm water ports.  If you look at the geography of it......Germany and Russia are natural rivals.  This is why Russia so distrusted any form of a unified Germany following ww2....Russia has always seen invasions from German territory...even before there was a Germany.  In the early-mid-late 30's both countries were already expanding.....but the Germans were bogged down with Yugoslavia and Poland, and the Russian expansion was bogged down in Finland.  Both leaders also distrusted their militaries....and had to consolidate domestic power at various times.  The alliance/non-agression pact was always meant to be a temporary measure.  Hitler rose to power screaming about communism and socialism.  He was always a direct rival of Stalin.  Stalin and the communist party in Russia saw Hitler as an enemy of the proletariat...and historically feared Germany.  In other words both Stalin and Hitler knew that they were going to be fighting at some point.  The non-agression pact was a mutual agreement to take care of other concerns before this happened.  Germany over came it's problems/obstacles before the Soviets did (they had a 70 year advantage on industrialization, and a more centralized/homogenous population) and broke the Warsaw Pact first.  Stalin's reaction was simple disbelief....and when he did find out the invasion was real he hid for days inside of a bunker and Russia was in chaos.  He finally emerged...and ww2 was fought on the the plains of Russia.  To say that ww2 was a land war between Germany and The Soviet Union would not be too far off the mark.  Both sides benefited from the non-agression pact....but Germany was quicker to take advantage.  As far as appeasement.....the initial German expansion was more bluff than anything else.  THe german war machine could quickly have been stopped in places like Czeck.  To understand appeasement you have to understand the Versailles treaty (the treaty/surrender that ended ww1).  The German State lost territory, had to make reparations, etc.  They had limited military production.  The French (who suffered the worst of ww1) were the primary driving force behind the humiliating (to German thinking) Treaty of Versailles.  The English always felt the sanctions on Germany were unfair and unenforcable.  Because of this....when the Germans entered areas like the Sudatland......the British saw it as fair.  The french lacked the strength or will to fight...especially without international support.  By the time that Germany entered Poland (a mutual invasion with Russia actually), their war machine and industry was far greater...and Hitler's domestic power was far more consolidated.  The Germans already had a huge buffer zone.  Appeasement lead to the inevitable and eventual war with a stronger Germany.
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Both of these nations were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the Great War. After World War II, they were bunged together to make country, even though they had very little to do with each other. The first chance they got after the Russians admitted they could manage their own affairs, they split up.\nIt's widely believed that the split that took effect in 1993 was encouraged by Czechs in the government who saw Slovakia as economically backward (which it was)and as a burden to the Czech lands.\nThe Czechs stole many millions making Slovakia a lot poorer than they were. During the split the Czechs flew nearly all of the commercial airlines into their country and when they split they kept them.\nThis process is known as The Velvet Divorce.
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Western Europe is as developed, if not more, than the US. If you take a look at Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland or Austria (to name a few), you will see that, even though they have a different style of living, their "modernity" is similar, if not more advanced, than that of the US. There are also South-Eastern countries who are just developing, due to having been occupied or influenced by the Communist regime. Anyway, most of them are preparing to join the European Union, which will help them reach the modern European and American standard. I believe the old continent is evolving at a very fast pace.
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like when? the city is 850 years old, and spend half that time being capital of Russia, so lotsa stuff went down.\n\nhere are just some benchmarks that are not so obvious from general history of Russia\n\n1250 - Founded by Yuri Dolgorukii, who ruled Russia from then-captial Kiev\n\n1533-1580 reign of Ivan the Terrible, who finished consolidating power in Moscow. The city witnesses some gruesome medieval-style executions, hence the "Terrible" nickname.\n\n~1610 As a result of civil war after Ivan's death, Moscow is taken by Polish troops, who are soon kicked out by russian militia\n\n~1710 Peter the Great moves capital to freshly Built Saint Petersburg. Moscow become a provincial city\n\n1812 Napoleon invasion. After a bloody Borodino battle, Russians set fire to the city & abandon it.  Napoleon moves in nonetheless, rans out of food and is forced to retreat in the middle of winter, loosing most of his army.\n\n1924 Communists move capital back to Moscow since St-Petersburg (renamed Leningrad) was too close to border with capitalist Finland.\n\nwinter 1941-1942 Battle of Moscow, outgunned Russian troops aided by Russian winter stop Germans miles away front he city and counterattack.\n\n1991 Hard-line communists attempt a coup against Gorbachev's liberalization. Mass protests in Moscow, headed by Boris Yeltsin. Military moves in, but takes the side of protesters, and the coup fails. Yeltsin uses resulting political capital to disband Soviet Union.\n\n1993 Right-wing parliament starts a standoff with Yelstin, resulting in troops moving in again. This time, fighting erupts, ~100 people die and parliament building is shelled by tanks. Yeltsin prevails, parliament assumes "puppy dog" posture from then on.
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Karl Marx was a German who lived in London and died decades before the Russian Revolution, so no.
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Berlin was the capital before WWII and after Germany lost the war it was devided in sections between Russia and the Allies due to disagreements on how Germanys future shoudl look like.\n\nWhen the Federal Republic of Germany got created, they made Bonn the new capital.\n\nAfter Germany's re-union, Berlin became the capital again.
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Germany was a major ally of Great Britain and the US after the war.  We extended huge credits to the Reichsbank for them to build up their industries and infrastructure so they could pay the massive war compensations (reparations) that we demanded of them.  The German economy flourished but it took a major hit along with the US in the 1929 stock market crash.  When Hitler came to power in 1933, he used the revived German economy to make arms and build up the armed forces, again using credit from the west, negotiated by his finance minister, Schacht.  By this point, we were appeasing the Germans, keeping them happy to avoid another war.  By the mid 1930's, the new German military was ready.  The air force was tested in the Spanish civil war and then Hitler started taking back German lands.  Poland was last and we all know what happened after that...
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Russia had an imperial government before 1917 under the rule of leaders called Czars.
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World War I: 1914-1918\nWorld War II: 1939-1945
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Historically, Fascists are ultra-right-wing--see National Socialists in Germany under Hitler and Fascist under Musolinni in Italy in WWII and prior.  I can't speak for current ones in Russia--I'm not familiar with their politics.
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rusian revolution changes\n\nhttp://www.museum.ru/mirror/vlmp/l_VLMPe.asp\n\n:> peace
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try these. You'll find interesting things:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917\nwww.answers.com/topic/russian-revolution-of-1917 \nhttp://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/russia1.htm\nhttp://www.emayzine.com/lectures/russianrev.html\nhttp://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/russia.htm\n\nyou can also try to search something through www.google.com with the key-words you need. \nbest wishes, sweet_orhideea. hope you'll succeed
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I'd say WWI, after WWII the soviets and Americans were pretty much at eachother's throats and the advent of the atomic age ensured heightened levels of paranoia from all sides now that a single bomber could level a city.\n\nAfter WWI things could have gone a lot better if the allied powers weren't so harsh on germany (but that goes back to the french's stupidity during the napoleonic wars, but I digress) and if the stock market hadn't crashed hitler would have had a much harder time coming to power.
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History of the Soviet Union  \n    Human beings have always demanded leadership; without it, society invariably heads toward self-destruction. But mankind has evolved over time, from a primal form of tribal leadership, to monarchy and dictatorship and finally, is on its tortuous path to the possibility of complete democracy. From the end of the Renaissance, the people have gradually awaken to the knowledge of human rights and a hatred of dictatorship, thus leading to bloody striving for independence. Such was the case of Russia, a nation rocked by many revolutions; a nation which, in stretching its arms toward economic superiority and political freedom, has sacrificed tens of millions of its people. In proud Russia’s turbulent history, it is demonstrated over and over again that, while the people may be repressed and scared into obedient silence for a while, they will rise, in order to defend their basic rights as human beings.\n\n \nBOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION  \n    Russia, near the end of the nineteenth century, was an impoverished state, miles and miles behind the other nations of Europe. At the beginning of the reign in 1894, Tsar Nicholas II, made an attempt at building factories and railways in order to boost Russia’s economy. Despite such vast economic progress and industrialization, the peasantry was far from satisfied. For, just as in any country new to industrialization, the government temporarily forgot its priority, in the rush to catch up to other more technologically advanced countries: its people. Ridiculously low wages, child labor and deplorable working conditions were wide spread, as trade unions were still outlawed. As the bridge between the poor and the rich widened, revolutionary sentiments began to grow.\n    From the masses, two revolutionary groups arose, both stemmed from the followers of Karl Marx, the Mensheviks, those who wanted wider popular support before launching any revolutionary movements, and the Bolsheviks, disciples of a particular interpretation of Marxism, who wanted radical change immediately. On January 22, 1905, 200,000 workers and their families gathered in front of the Czar palace to demand better “better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national assembly.” The czar’s generals ordered their soldiers to fire into the crowd, killing as many as 1000 citizens, whose efforts only achieved little in terms of political change.\n    To complicate matters even further, in 1914, Czar Nicholas II made the fateful decision to launch Russia into The Great War, World War I, dragging with him Russia’s 11 million peasants. Russia’s economy was still growing, not yet mature, no where near able to handle the economic crisis that the war brought. The Germans crushed the Russian’s poorly equipped troops and inexperienced generals, as well as the soldiers’ morale. The czar had pushed his unstable economy and his unwilling people into World War I; he would indeed feel the consequences of his actions.\n \nMARCH REVOLUTION  \n    In March of 1917, a group of women textile workers led a riot against shortages of bread and fuel. The Tsar’s soldiers were ordered, once again, to fire into the crowd, but were convinced by some of the women to join their cause. Enthusiastic shouts of “down with the war!” and “down with the autocracy!” were heard all over. The Russian populace, after three centuries of oppressive rule, suddenly erupted with the “fever of the masses”; their sheer number and determination forced Nicholas to abdicate his throne. He and his family were placed under house arrest and shot a year later by the ultimately victorious Bolsheviks.\n    A provisional government (temporary government) headed by Alexander Kerensky replaced the dead czar regime as the people dared to look forward to a more secure future. But the provincial government decided to continue Russia’s involvement in the war, worsening internal conditioning. Kerensky gradually lost th
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Germany won the World Cup in the following years: 1954, 1974 and 1990.\n\nGermany won the European Championship in the following years: 1972, 1980 and 1996.\n\nAfter World War II, Germany was split up into four military occupation zones. The Americans controlled southeast Germany, the British controlled the northwest, southeast Germany was controlled by the French, and the Russians controlled the northeast section of the country.\n\nOn May 23, 1949, the American, British and French sectors joined to form the Federal Republic of Germany - or West Germany. The Russians answered on October 7, 1949 by establishing the German Democratic Republic - or East Germany.\n\nThis state of two separate nations lasted until reforms in eastern European nations led to mass immigration from East Germany to West Germany in the summer of 1989. On October 3, 1990 - 45 years after being split up into for occupied military zones - the two governments joined as in German reunification an selected Berlin to once again be the capital of a united Germany.\n\nHope this helps!!