This represented both good news and bad news for the Bolsheviks. ... Lenin solved the problem of land ownership very well. In his April Theses, he swore to return all the land to the peasants. Using the Decree on Land, 540 million acres of land was taken from the tsar, nobles, church, and private landlords then distributed between the peasants. ... Overall, I think Lenin's consolidation of power had many more good points than bad. ...

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The main problem however was land as there was simply not enough to go around. ... However the size of land that they received was often insufficient to survive on. ... The peasants were bitter that the nobles and landowners had kept so much of the land after the government had begun to give loans to peasants to buy land. ... More and more peasants by 1905 were competing for the land available. ... The war made already bad conditions in the cities even worse and brought the workers to breaking point. ...

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I already know what Russian terrain looks like in the present day, and how Russia has adapted appropriately to the good and bad geographical aspects of the land. ... During the Kiev period, which was from 972-1054 AD, Kievan Rus had few defining aspects with regards to the land itself, seeing as the land itself was relatively small. ... The land of Kievan Rus itself was certainly far from blessed. ... Despite the flaws of the land, the people of Kievan Rus were able to devise ways to make their country prosperous and safe. They learned how exploit what resources they had and use their land...

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The staggering statistic is that 80% of the population living in Russia were peasants who farmed the land. This of course made living conditions harder for the peasants to live as the land had to be divided up so many times. ... People living in towns and working in factories fared just as bad as the peasants. ...

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Rich peasants were able to buy strips of land, in order to create a new class of prosperous land owning peasants, Kuluks. ... The poorer peasants were forced to sell their land and become laborers, and many workers could not earn enough money to support their family. Also four million peasants were encouraged by the government to settle on the new land at the Trans-Siberian Railway. However when they reached the land after days of uncomfortable traveling, they found that the best land had already been taken by rich land speculators. ... The winter of 1916 was a bad one. ...

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Question Was Industrialisation in the latter part of the 19th Century Good or Bad? ... In conclusion, the industrialisation may have benefitted Russia as a whole, if we think of Russia as nothing but a country, large land mass with an economy. ... Whether it is good or bad is a whole different question, in this case, it would have been a terrible change. ...

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These serfs had been legally bound to the land they worked on and were owned by manorial lords. ... Land that once belonged to the peasant communes soon became private property of large landowners. ... The serfs had to live in such horrible and unsuitable conditions, yet, the masters forced them to pay ridiculously high taxes for the land they worked and lived on. ... Limitations on peasants" property rights heightened; they were not allowed to buy land in cities or rural areas (GSE, p.730). ... The rich landowners still had millions of serfs who continued to be bound to the land as part of t...

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In both countries, there is a sense that the bad eventually drives out the good, as one evil progressively replaces another. ... Land". ... Land decrees abolished private land ownership, civil marriages were made compulsory and censorship of the press was introduced as seen in France. ...

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"Peace, Land, and Bread" what he promised, but he only kept his promises when he found it convenient (econfaculty.gmu.edu). ... He first exterminated the NEP and the land handed out to the citizens that Lenin had created while he was still in power. ... The Communist party has had a bad history of death since Lenin and Stalin. ...

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This way many criminals went to America, the Land of Opportunity, to start their own "business". ... When the bad reputation of Russians, which had been manifested by the term "Russian Mafia", began to inflict moral, economic or physical damage upon the Russian-Americans the CRA took steps to change the situation. ... That is the main problem in the relation between Russian-Americans and other citizens of "the land of the free". ...

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I. Background information: Before The War The Vietnam War, well known and brought up a lot in today's world as a comparison to the current Iraq war. This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam w...

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So to avoid his army being slowed down, Napoleon instated that his troops lived off the land as much as possible. ... In addition to the poor road network, the agriculture system was less than adequate and there was a bad drought causing a shortage of water. ... The situation was just as bad for the horses. ...

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They told workers, soldiers, and peasants to not trust their own hands and to take away land from the landowners. ... Napoleon thought that if he could keep the barnyard animals busy all the time replacing the windmill that they would not realize how bad their living conditions were, and he could blame the destruction all the time on Snowball. ... Russia hoped that by keeping the serfs working all the time and promising them a better world that they would not realize how bad their living conditions were. ...

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They told workers, soldiers, and peasants to not trust their own hands and to take away land from the landowners. ... Napoleon thought that if he could keep the barnyard animals busy all the time replacing the windmill that they would not realize how bad their living conditions were, and he could blame the destruction all the time on Snowball. ... Russia hoped that by keeping the serfs working all the time and promising them a better world that they would not realize how bad their living conditions were. ...

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The Revolution Of Russia. Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896-1917. An autocrat, Nicholas II had continued the monarchy held by the Romanov's for many generations. From the day Russia "elected" Nicholas II as Emperor problems arose with the people. As was tradition at coronations, the E...

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Herlihy explains how all social problems and "bad things" in general were attributed to alcohol and expounds upon this by looking at how the state, military, church, doctors and the czar all tried to deal with the problem of excessive alcohol consumption. ... If the men in the military were not permitted to drink, they found ways around it, and this "constant pattern of breaking the alcoholic ban made it easier for people to disregard the laws of the land." (10) Women's relationship to the alcohol issue in Russia was rather complicated. ...

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Land was redistributed, some as collective farms. ... Traits of a Leader Lenin showed many characteristics of a good leader, making him ultimately a better leader than his successors, where downplayed by Americans due to propaganda from the government teacher socialism bad, capitalism good, which isn't the case, but not what is being explained. ...

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The Tsar being the Father of the land, his children came to seek him, but he was nowhere to be found, except for now, the people looking down on him from Heaven. ... The attacks at first weren't as bad as the solution to the halt of the procession, but it did leave its mark in Russia's shameful conclusion of a smaller revolution in Russia. ...

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In his letter, he indicated all sympathies for the poles just not to make his image bad in front of his sister. ... After winning the land, the "Convention of Genetein" was proposed by the Austrians which divided Schlewig-Holstein into two halves. ...

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