The French and Russian revolutions had some very similar characteristics that created drastic unrest from the people. The two countries both faced an extremely harsh economy that was leaving citizens impoverished. In an article on the Princeton University Press titled The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian...

Each person is a prisoner of their own social background, willingly or unwillingly. People are not all good or all evil – they are a mixture of various traits, moods, and behaviors. Still, the effect of publicity is like a magnifying glass. The higher one’s social status is, the more...

From the years 1789 to 1930 Europe went through a dramatic democratic change. Beginning in 1789 with the French Revolution and ending in 1930 with Irish independence, the changes that swept across Europe were marked and dramatic. The common theme among all of these revolutions was that revolutionaries led the...

Sheila Fitzpatrick is a highly esteemed scholar who has been publishing and editing works on Russian history since the 1970s ("Sheila Fitzpatrick Biography"). Her signature work on the Bolshevik Revolution which transformed tsarist Russia into the Soviet Union was first published by the prestigious Oxford University Press in 1982 and...

Latin Christendom is one of the most important times in history, and a study of this period can reveal some interesting conclusions about the nature of war and peace. During this particular period, war was a reality of the day. Most people think of this time in terms of the...