Russian history project

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Hello everyone,currently for school I'm doing a project on Russian history.I would like some help in the following areas.

#1:Religion:Preferable any info linking their early christianity to the brutality of the Tsarist regimes would be helpful.Also any information involving the restoration of religion to post-soviet life would be great (as in its effects).

#2: Communism: Information about how life in russia improved after the introduction of communism,particluary over those in europe and america.Specific areas include production and treatment of GLBT individuals.

I'm looking for links to sites or articles,something I can write down as a source.However feel free to leave any bits you think would be helpful to my work.

Thank you.

[KC]

#1:Religion:Preferable any info linking their early christianity to the brutality of the Tsarist regimes would be helpful.Also any information involving the restoration of religion to post-soviet life would be great (as in its effects).

How early? You might want to check out the Black Hundreds, although I don't think that you will find such a direct causality between religion and reactionary violence in the case of Russia.




#2: Communism: Information about how life in russia improved after the introduction of communism,particluary over those in europe and america.Specific areas include production and treatment of GLBT individuals.

Again, you are going to have to provide a time period. The answer to this question really depends on when you are talking about.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

The time period is open:I don't have a assigned era.So any period which raises russia above the other countries is fine;I just need information and links.

[KC]

Well if you're going to be presenting this as "the Soviet Union was better than the US at xyz" then it's going to be a pretty dull and overall incorrect paper, as Soviet society developed very unevenly and very unpredictably throughout its existence.

You would be better off picking something that you can trace throughout the course of its short life. Or another topic entirely.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

It's not explicitly "Soviets are better then americans" but I would still like some general statistics which either indicate that the sovits were better at "so and so" or about how communism was slowly making russia better (even if the development was uneven/unpredictable).

[KC]

Well that's just the thing. It depends entirely what you mean by "better" and what period you are discussing specifically. So in order for anyone to help you we would first need you to specify what this paper is going to be about (as "better" in and of itself, without being defined, is much too vague for anyone to assist you, or even IMO upon which to write a paper) and when it is going to be about, as post-revolutionary society was vastly different than under the Khruschev period, for example.

You might not care about these things but nobody's going to be able to help you if you aren't more specific.

[Theoneontheleft]

Hello everyone,currently for school I'm doing a project on Russian history.I would like some help in the following areas.

#1:Religion:Preferable any info linking their early christianity to the brutality of the Tsarist regimes would be helpful.

This article may be helpful in the above area.

http://www.russiansabroad.com/russian_history_49.html


#2: Communism: Information about how life in russia improved after the introduction of communism,particluary over those in europe and america.

This link might be of use for you in the second area.

http://www.essortment.com/all/communismhistor_rdec.htm



I hope that these help. I am sure that you can find much more credible articles, but these might be a good start for you. Good luck with your paper.

[ComradeOm]

#1:Religion:Preferable any info linking their early christianity to the brutality of the Tsarist regimes would be helpful.Also any information involving the restoration of religion to post-soviet life would be great (as in its effects)Probably much more detail than you need, but Moshe Lewin's The Making of the Soviet System has some pretty in-depth chapters on the role of religion and superstition amongst the pre-Soviet peasantry

[Theoneontheleft]

Probably much more detail than you need, but Moshe Lewin's The Making of the Soviet System has some pretty in-depth chapters on the role of religion and superstition amongst the pre-Soviet peasantry

Moshe Lewin's Lenin's Last Struggle seems very detailed, about Lenin & Trotsky's later years and Stalin's early years, as well.

[araham]

Hope someone will reply:

Why were Zeneviev and Kamenev regained their positions in the CC of the Party despite their treason?

[Die Rote Fahne]

Remember to note the secularization that Lenin brought to Russia:

- Legalized homosexuality
- women gained equal rights
- condemned anti-semitism
- etc