Comparison between eight Russian leaders across several periods

One day in May 2019, while walking the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, you are invited by the English-language RT News to take part in a townhall meeting about Russia’s past, present, and future. As you take your place on the stage, you recognize the other panelists as historical figures or fictional characters from Imperial Russia. During the townhall, which becomes quite a heated discussion, participants address each of the following themes:

The power and privileges of rulers
Russia’s position in a changing world
Social transformations and structures
The meaning of ethnicity in empire
The role of intellectuals in shaping public discourse

Your assignment is to recreate this conversation in a six page paper Make sure to include a range of perspectives that address all of the relevant themes over both centuries. Your essay must make comparisons between multiple perspectives across a range of time periods. The eight characters must be taken from the following list:

Peter I
Catherine II
Potemkin
Pugachev
Radishchev
Karamzin
Pushkin
Figner
Alexander I
Nicholas I
Herzen
Alexander II
Gogol
Zinaida (Turgenev, “First Love”)
Shamil
Witte
Lenin
Nikita (Tolstoy, “Master and Man’)

You may use any format you wish (analytical essay, dialogue, reported conversation, or summaries). Be creative and have fun. Essay should be single spaced with reasonable margins and font size 12 times new roman

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Russian Leaders across Several Periods

Over the many years that Russia government has been in place, there has been a test of various systems of leadership exercised by a particular leader who gets into power. The federation has tried a range of systems from monarchies, autocratic to democratic representation. The revolution which happened in 1917 became one of the remarkable political events in Russia’s history since it brought an end of Romanov dynasty. The turn of events made it possible for social and political changes which would later lead to the Soviet Union formation. During the revolution period, social unrest was evident but it took a short while before normalcy returned. A view of Russia in 1900 shows a country with enormous peasant growth where most of the industrial workers were poor. It was viewed by Western Europe countries as a backward and undeveloped society.

(3,250 words)