than taking it upon themselves to fix it. One of the main problems that the peasants must be trained not to deal with themselves is violent conflict. It is imperative that they view you (and your enforcers) as the only protection against robbery‚ assault‚ and murder. In short‚ they must be indoctrinated in such a way that they do not even want to be able to defend themselves. The reason is simple: if the peasants feel capable and entitled to “enforce justice” themselves‚ they might just decide
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Rebellion. To what extent do you agree with this judgment of the Rebellion? The Boxer Rebellion was the siege of the western legations‚ when the Boxers surrounded the diplomatic residences of the Western powers in Beijing. They were a semi-religious peasant group‚ who wanted to support the Qing‚ but were opposed to foreign influence in all forms and wanted to drive the foreigners‚ their works and their Christian religion out of China. It was largely a turning point as its effects led to calls for revolution
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Historians may believe the Provisional Government was doomed because of a major problem with the provisional government which was the Dual Authority. The Provisional Government was made up of members of the old Duma that had refused to disband at the Tsars command. This meant that they were basically the same men that the Tsar had appointed before the revolution‚ so nothing had changed in that regard. Consequently‚ they had no goodwill from the public backing them up‚ so they would be judged purely
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of people for service. Since the Black Death killed anyone it weakened the feudal system when the lord died. So peasants could now refuse orders from other groups of people. They could go work for their own and earn their own pay so this lead to peasant uprising and revolts. Peasants attested for higher wages‚ food and land due to lack of competition from other districts. If the peasants didn’t receive what they wanted they would leave and kings and rulers and they would lose their power. Furthermore
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sell abroad to provide resources for industrialisation. In larger context‚ Collectivisation led to large farms increasing efficiency‚ as well as meaning fewer people would be needed to work on the farms‚ which obviously would have resulted in the peasants working on the farms being less than
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enormous problems Lenin faced included the fact that Russia was still at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary and occupying forces controlled most of western Russia. At any minute they could march on the city which was virtually defenceless. The peasants had seized lands across the country‚ industrial production had slumped‚ unemployment was rising and so was inflation. Furthermore‚ although they were strong in cities such as Petrograd and Moscow‚ the Bolsheviks did not have mass support across the
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Chaochan in Hunan province in 1893. He is considered to be the father of Communist China and along side Sun Yat sen and Chiang Kai Shek played a fundamental part in China’s recent history. He came from a peasant family. His education was hard and he experienced no luxuries same with all the peasants that living in 19th century China. He first became a Marxist while he worked as a library assistant at Peking University. In June 1921‚ he co-founded the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese Communist
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especially privileges granted by one country or organization to another. The origins of manorialism and feudalism had some similarities as well as differences. First‚ manorialism and feudalism have their individual roots. In the case of manorialism‚ peasants contracted with landowners to provide a certain amount of their produce. In return‚ the landowner provided a number of things‚
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Mayan Civilization started to collapse during the Post Classic period‚ around 750 AD. There have been many shared and stories told about how this down fall occurred of this ancient civilization occurred‚ yet not one can come to a distinct conclusion. Peasant revolt and agriculture abuse are just a few of the possibilities that may have led to the destruction of the Mayan civilization that completely just
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the eve of the French Revolution. The Third Estate was discontent with unequal taxation‚ the interference of the government of the people’s lives‚ and unreasonable persecution of different religions. The Third Estate was made up by the merchants‚ peasants‚ and the laborers (bourgiosie). The bourgiosie were the only ones that were able to address the Third Estate grievances. One of the main grievances of the Third Estate were the high taxes. The First Estate (clergy) took control of the Third
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