Essays on History

Vladimir Lenin established the Russian Communist Party, drove the Bolshevik Revolution and was the planner of the Soviet state. He was the after death wellspring of ‘Leninism,’ the tenet classified and conjoined with Marx’s works by Lenin’s successors to frame Marxism-Leninism, which turned into the...

Introduction The 1920s up to the early 1930s came with one of the most bizarre of prohibitions that the country has ever experienced. Referred to as the prohibition era, this was a time that alcohol was banned in the United States. This was a time...

Throughout European history, there has been countless wars and military struggles all over the continent. Some have been civil wars, while others were conflicts with another countries, but they all are part of Europe’s innumerable armed conflicts. In those situations, in times of war, true...

In this essay, I will be critically discussing how Palestine and Israel had been at war for over a decade. These two countries had been in conflict for over 52 years, many individuals believe the conflict between the two abrupted because of two groups fighting...

Vladimir Lenin was a Russian politician and theorist, who heavily influenced the growth of Russia in the Twentieth Century. Lenin first began to immerse himself in politics after the execution of his brother, for an assassination attempt on Alexander III. Although Lenin was arrested in...

Hillel Cohen’s ‘Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict’ is a conscious effort in discussing the riots that took place in Jerusalem in 1929 from a non-biased perspective. Cohen explores the riots through the different perspectives of the Jews and the Arabs. An Israeli professor specialising...

During the 17th and 18th centuries, America began to develop more and more into its own country. The development was mainly caused by the impacts of International Trades. International Trades is the exchange of capital goods in general and services across other countries or territories....

In this essay, I will demonstrate the effects of the Harlem Renaissance on society in the United States through using different modes of expression such as poetry, religion, and music. Centralized around New York City’s Harlem district, a blossoming of cultural advancement would use music...

The Classical and Hellenistic Age were two of the most influential eras of Greek art. It influenced much of the Western civilization. Two of the sculptures I chose to focus on from each period was Doryphoros from the Classical Age and the Winged Victory of...

Background The Space Race had created two strong space programs that would end up competing for space supremacy as a result of the intense competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both countries made great emphasis in their efforts to create a stronger...

The United States of America, the land of the free. Many people know this vast land for being made up of its fifty states, from Alaska to Wyoming, but how this land came to be is not as well known. Originally there were thirteen colonies,...

Many conversations within the idea of alternative history range from the insane to a possible result if the variables fell in the exact time and place. Used as a source of entertainment in literature, games, and moving pictures, certain topics will get the treatment but...

The constant battle between Israel and the Arab Nation has stemmed for thousands of years, a conflict that originates so far back to the point that Islam didn’t exist. Most of the conflict was not based on the theological reasonings within the religious differences between...

Lenin was a pragmatic ruler who was determined to reach his goals and had the ability to recognise that in order to pursue his aims he would have to negotiate and be lenient in certain situations, whilst being able to maintain his belief and control...

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” – Neil Armstrong 1969 An estimated 600 million eager eyes watched carefully and in disbelief as Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon on July 20th, 1969. The landing of Apollo 11 was...

In the Nineteenth Century, Russia was changing. It was feeling a lot of pressure to become more modern as times were also changing and many of the neighbouring countries had begun their journey to modernity. As changes were happening throughout the empire, new ideals were...

Beginning in the 15th century, many countries around the globe were in need of specific resources to prosper and create a highly-developed society. However, there were no forms of an exchange of goods during this time. This catastrophe led to a highly-valued method of transportation...

During the 300s BCE all the way to the early first century, Greece underwent a period of scientific and artistic enlightenment. During this era of expansion and economic revival, Greece was destined to make discoveries that would change the world forever. People like Ptolemy and...

This essay analyzes two readings containing opposite positions about the Neolithic Revolution. In the reading “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” by Jared Diamond, he believes that going from hunter-gathering to agriculture was a huge mistake. Diamond thinks that Hunter-gatherers had...