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[GamerKnight]

Mikhail Kalashnikov. The guy who invented the AK-47.

[Tellemurius]

or Izhmash that literally made the best russian weapons of all time

[Heron TSG]

There's always the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Maybe you could draw some parallels to the time that Russia and Prussia split up Poland after the Napoleonic wars. There are also the Hero Cities to write about. There are 12 of them total, with Leningrad and Stalingrad being the most prominent.

[Vector]

Hmm... right now I'm doing the Pact, Hero Cities, Gogol, Catherine the Great... need two more.

Probably Rachmaninoff and Nabokov.

I'm going to need a lot more of these by next Friday (4-8), so... Maybe Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Dostoevsky, Gorky, the Trans-Siberian Railway, Anna Karenina, Futurism...

I think that's too much literature and too little just-plain stuff, though.  And no, I'm not doing vodka or weaponry.  That would be bad for my image.

[breadbocks]

Preform an in-depth study of the mathematical achievements of the Russians in the late 1980s.

Go for double extra credit. B)

[Vector]

Actually, I was thinking about writing on Sonya Kabalevskaya.  Maybe...

[Heron TSG]

Russo-Japanese war. Problems that Russia has because of its 11 time zones. Lake Baikal. Future trading capabilities across the Arctic sea after the ice melts. The Winter War. During the cold war era, describe the average Soviet's reaction to the west. The Soviets in Afghanistan and how that's screwing us over now. The Space Race. Russia's struggle to stop being landlocked in the middle ages, finally ended by Czar Peter, who took enough land to found St. Petersburg as the first Russian port. The movement of the Vikings to eastern Europe that helped create the Rus civilization. Write about Russia's hockey team, maybe focusing on the Miracle On Ice.

I love brainstorming. I just hate writing essays. 

[Vector]

Well... thank you, man!  That's very helpful!

I'm writing these ideas down to use later <3

[Mindmaker]

Vodka?

That's actually a great topic, if you focus on the socio-cultural implications.
The way the russian government used vodka as a cure for the national depression at that time, which resulted in national alcoholism and thousands dead, from intoxication of their selfbrewed vodka and it's later attempts to sober the population up.

[Vector]

Okay okay, will do.

Just need somewhere to get the information other than Wikipedia, I guess.

[Taco Dan]

Argh! My back is killing me! Good thing there's Ibuprofen, or I wouldn't be able to move.

[Il Palazzo]

There's always the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Maybe you could draw some parallels to the time that Russia and Prussia split up Poland after the Napoleonic wars.

Keep in mind, that the post-Napoleon partitioning was not the first. Happened three times before that, in 1772(between Austria, Prussia, Russia), 1793(Prussia, Russia), 1795(the three of them again).
The "Poland" that have been partitioned after Congress of Vienna in 1815 was effectively just a French puppet state.
Anyway you can draw parallels to four previous partitioning, not just one.
And then you can draw a parallel to the Yalta Conference, which created a puppet state not much different from the one created by Tsarist Russia in 1815.

[Akigagak]

Poor Poland.

What's the longest it's borders have stayed in the same places?

[Il Palazzo]

Let's not get all teary eyed over poor little Land of Poles. We had our moments, maybe not in the last two centuries, but it's just how the things work with political entities.

To answer your question - I suppose you could say ~400 years, in the period of personal, and then real union with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania(1385-1772), but it's not strictly correct, as the borders back then rarely stayed firmly in place.

[Mindmaker]

Let's not get all teary eyed over poor little Land of Poles. We had our moments, maybe not in the last two centuries, but it's just how the things work with political entities.

Indeed. It played a very interesting role in some of the key events of the medieval ages.
Or even the downfall of communism, not too long ago.