During this time, families and friends spied on each other and turned each other in. ... Peasant's farms were taken away without compensation and made into "collective farms." The idea of collective farms was to make all of the farms into one large farm to increase the efficiency of the farm. These farms were run under the supervision of the government. ... The complaints from the peasants were ignored and the "collective farm" system continued. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

By the mid-1920's there were about 25 million farms in the Soviet Union but many produced only enough to feed the families who worked them. ... He felt that once the peasants saw the benefits of modern agriculture, they would join the state-run collective farms. ... In 1928 only 1.7% of the peasants were on collective farms but after the army or secret police came and "persuaded" them the total went up, in March 1930 there were 58%. By the end of the 1930's there was a total of 99% of peasants working or in someway helping collective farms. ...

• Word Count: 548
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• Grade Level: High School

Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his family to work in a factory in Tiflis which was the capital of Georgia when Stalin was five years old. ... Production of industrial machinery and farm equipment became more important, and production of cloth...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some went to work in the cities, but many remained in the countryside, with not even a small patch of land to support their families. ... The workers conditions were poor: The workers worked long hours for only a very small wage, which was often not enough to feed the worker and his family. ... Half the farming land belonged to 300, 000 landowners but the other half was shared between 15 MILLION PEASANT FAMILIES. ... Food was getting short, Millions of Male peasants had been conscripted into the army, so there was a shortage of farm workers and less food Was being produced. ...

• Word Count: 833
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• Grade Level: High School

It affected every country, and every family in some way or form. ... The total damage during the war was 1000 billion US$ throughout the nation including the destruction of 16 000 industrial enterprises, 714 towns/cities, 28 000 state farms, etc. ...

• Word Count: 631
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• Has Bibliography
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The State decided, in 1982, to create a responsibility contract with the farmers for a duration of 15 years: the farmers weren't landowner but were allowed to farm and to do what they wanted with it. ... It's now possible to create individual firms, thus increased the number of small private family firms in the industry and in the trading sector. ... Chinese families invest in the education of their children and this action participates in the development of the country. ... An other injustice is the attribution of the key positions to the leader's family. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The more children in the family, the more hands there were to help out with farm duties. ... They were also able to get a better education, work for personal or family income, for personal fulfillment, or to afford consumer goods. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Though the Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate on March 2, 1917, all the members of the royal family remained under house arrest, until they were shot dead on July 16, 1918. ... He also attempted to get rid of the Kulaks, by mechanization and the collectivization of all the farms. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" One which combined all the small farms of a village into on large unit. ... One by one, the old Bolsheviks were arrested, some shot, others forced to confess to ridiculous charges after torture in order to be saved or to save their families. ...

• Word Count: 1009
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• Grade Level: High School

Stalin ordered all of Russia's farmland to be collectivized, or turned into huge, organized farms. ... Without a family or close friends, Stalin completely devoted himself to his position as leader of Russia. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Nikita Khrushchev was born to a poor family in Kalinovka, near the village of Kursk in southwestern Russia. His grandfather had been a serf, or indentured farm laborer, and his father was a peasant who sometimes worked in the mines. ...

• Word Count: 2148
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Stalin ordered all of Russia's farmland to be collectivized, or turned into huge, organized farms. ... Without a family or close friends, Stalin completely devoted himself to his position as leader of Russia. ...

• Word Count: 1682
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• Grade Level: High School

Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School