Mr. Haskell
World History
7 March 2005
Webliography March 7, 2005
ESLR #1-4
�Gregory Efimovich � Rasputin�,
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/historical/biography/gregory_rasputin.html , March 7 2005
This website is a great website if you want to get quick and very good information about Gregory Efimovich aka Rasputin. The website talks about Rasputin�s life such as how Rasputin never received any formal education and how he lived as a peasant and also said how Rasputin translates into �the debauchee�. It also talks about how Czar Nicholas entrusted him with the office of lampkeeper which was a position that tended to the numerous lamps that burned throughout the night but after he made many miraculous impressions on Czarina Alexandria he soon became the most influential person in the Imperial Entourage. The site also says that after the Russian defeat Rasputin became a subject of public hatred and in mid December 1916 he was killed by a group of aristocrats who invited him over not to entertain but to kill. He actually wasn�t killed by the poison that was taken in by the hating aristocrats but by drowning instead. Overall this site is a good reference for one who is doing a report on Gregory Efimovich or for a lover of the Russian Revolution. This site could easily go deeper on the information but the information that is presented is good enough.
�Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), 1870-1924�, http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lenin.html , March 7, 2005
The second website I chose for you interested viewers out there is about Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov also known as Lenin who was born on April 22, 1870 in the provincial city of Simbirsk on the Volga River. This website offers interesting information about Lenin that you would never find in a text book. The information includes how he enrolled at the University of Kazan, a political and economical school, and was expelled because of taking part in student disturbances. He ended up scoring first in his class as an external student in 1891 passing the law at the University of St. Petersburg. More interesting facts include how he was exiled to Serbia in 1895 and in the early 1900s he and George Plekhanov and others organized the newspaper Iskra which means the spark which was meant to ignite revolutionary movement. The site says that in Iskra Lenin In Iskra Lenin rejected the notion of any kind of political alliance with liberals or other elements of the bourgeoisie and stressed the importance of social, rather than political, democracy, as the basis for individual freedom. This site gives a lot of solid information on Lenin and I recommend it as a reference for any person who is doing a report on Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov also known as Lenin.
�Joseph Stalin�, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSstalin.htm , March 7, 2005.
The final website is about Joseph Stalin who born in Gori, Georgia on December 21, 1879 and he was his mother�s fourth child in four years and the previous three children died. The site says that Joseph�s father was a bootmaker and when he was young he encountered poverty but it wasn�t unusual that a peasant wouldn�t encounter poverty at the end of the nineteenth century. What was unusual and unfortunate for Stalin was that he encountered smallpox at the age of seven and kids made fun of him calling him �pocky�. The site further talks about how Stalin read into Marx�s beliefs and was put into jail for 18 months after organizing a strike at the large Rothschild plant at Batum. He was exported to Siberia like Lenin but escaped later and became the editor of the Pravda and met Lenin in Finland. Finally after arrests and being deported, Stalin was exiled for life to North Siberia in 1913. This site doesn�t just present quality information about Joseph Stalin but it also goes deep into the Russian Revolution. I would recommend this site first to anyone doing a report on the Russian Revolution because it is full fo information and good links.