While Weber did not deny the importance of economic factors, he was not prepared to accept that man acted for bread alone, and he organised much of his work to show that other factors were important influences (Owen: 20). ... Thus members of complex societies must perform more specialised tasks and as a result of these tasks becoming more specialised, rewards in unequal amounts in order of importance must be given out in order to fill these positions where talents may be scarce and to give people the motivation to fill these positions in society. ...

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This way they would only produced the bare minimum to live on themselves, without having to give away any supplies. ... The Kulaks were supposedly storing grain for themselves, instead of giving it to the central authorities. ... The Bolsheviks introduced rationing but in March 1918 Petrograd's bread allocation had fallen to 50 grams per day, the lowest it experienced. ...

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