Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution Questions Page 48 Question 1: What were the social‚ economic and political conditions in Russia before 1905? Answer The social‚ economic and political conditions in Russia before 1905 were variously beneficial and bad for the masses. 85% of Russia’s population was agriculturist‚ far more than France or Germany with 40-50%. Industry was existent‚ but sporadically. Most of this was privately owned. Workers either came from villages‚ or migrated
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Animal Farm When story-lines of novels are used to make movies‚ many of the details from the books are left out making the movie less "effective" and will lack details that will modify the course of the events. In the case of Animal farm‚ the same exact mistake happens: to name a few changes from novel to movie before I get into the main topic‚ many of the characters have either a different role or completely inexistent; also many of the events don’t correspond to the ones in the original novel
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one brother of my father."1 His father’s name was Sergey Adreyevich Gorbachev. He was a combine harvester operator and was a veteran of World War II. Mikhail’s mother’s name was Maria Panteleyevna Gorbachev. She worked long hours as a kolkhoz worker. The term‚ “kolkhoz” implies that she worked on the collective farms. As a teenager Mikhail started doing the family’s work. He began to help his father as a combine harvester. In 1948‚ Mikhail and his father brought in a record breaking harvest. For this
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The USSR and Stalin 1924-53 How successful was Stalin in solving Russia’s economic problems? What were Russia’s economic problems? Stalin believe rapid expansion of heavy industry was essential to deal with evident attach from west Industrial workers were the communists; greatest allies Peasants: enemies of socialism Industrial: Peasant ration Greater it was‚ greater communist state would be The Five Year Plans for industry Stalin = no economic experience Plans designed to overcome
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Why was there tension between Stalin and his people between 1928-1941? After Lenin’s death in 1924‚ the two leading candidates for his successor were Stalin and Trotsky-both with opposing ideologies in the manner in which the country should be run. Despite being a brilliant speaker and writer‚ Trotsky’s policy on a ‘permanent revolution’ worried people in the fear that the USSR would get involved with more conflicts while Stalin’s proposition of ‘Socialism in One Country’ was far more comforting
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Assess the impact of Stalin on Russia and the Russian people By 1929‚ Stalin had become sole leader of Russia. He said‚ "We are between 50 and 100 years behind the west. We must make good this difference in 10 years or go under." He wanted things to change in Russia quickly and so he brought up the five year plans‚ these were to modernise the Russian economy. He also brought up the idea of collectivisation. This was to modernise Russian agriculture. These two things would transform Russia. Stalin
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had died from starvation and all 7 million Kulaks had been liquidized‚ through shooting or the labour camps or ‘Gulags’. However‚ by 1939‚ Collectivization was working efficiently with 99% of land merged and 90% of peasants living ¼ of a million Kolkhoz. Although at a heavy price‚ the exports needed to obtain the capitol for industrialization had been acquired. The 5-year plans objective was to dramatically increase industrialization‚ helped along by collectivization. Within a decade‚ Soviet Russia
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Word count: 245 Acknowledgements Alex Rakochy (IB Diploma History and MYP Humanities Instructor) – for support and instruction throughout the extended essay project Alish Kerimov (Hero of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Astarkhanbazar Kolkhoz) – for participating in an interview Aydin Kerimov (Russian Historian‚ Senior Fellow to
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Modern History Assessment Task HSC Course 2010 National Study Russia 1917 – 1941 Stalinism‚ the term used to embody the form of government experienced by the Soviet Union under Stalin’s rule‚ had a significant and lasting impact on the USSR. Stalinism impacted on several aspects of life. Collectivisation was introduced which assisted in the funding of industrialisation‚ terror was used to create a communist state. Stalin centralised every aspect of life‚ from the single leadership of Stalin
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CHAPTER I Introduction Background of Study An inventory system is basically a process whereby a business keeps track of the goods and material it has available. In its simplest sense it can be done manually by a count at the end of each day. In this way it is possible to keep a record of the goods coming in to the business and goods being sold. However this is only really appropriate for small businesses that do not have a lot of stock. For larger business it is more likely that a computerized
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