Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . ... Along with the Collectivization of farms and the devastation of the individual farmer, Stalin's agrarian revolution also included the elimination of the wealthy peasantry, the kulaks. ... The disastrous ferocity of Stalin's agrarian revolution condemned Soviet agriculture to decades of stagnation, and "the bloody experiment cost millions of lives. ... Stalin set fantastically unrealis...

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Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . ... Along with the Collectivization of farms and the devastation of the individual farmer, Stalin's agrarian revolution also included the elimination of the wealthy peasantry, the kulaks. ... The disastrous ferocity of Stalin's agrarian revolution condemned Soviet agriculture to decades of stagnation, and "the bloody experiment cost millions of lives. ... Stalin set fantastically unrealist...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. ...

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Deudney and Ikenberry assert that China will soon undergo a revolution because any individuals that gain wealth in a capitalist economy then strive for power which in an autocracy is unattainable. The authors draw strong comparisons between China and the USSR noting that it too was once an emerging industrial nation but, that eventually its citizens toppled its own government in the search for liberty and political power. ...

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Again, it was best said in the Communist Manifesto, while interchanging the word communist for environmentalist: "The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas."" ... But this was not a consideration, for Eastern Europe supported it, and had it not been for the revolution many farmers would have been driven into poverty through bankruptcy, which led to local rural support. Its objectives at the beginning of the revolution, in the agricultural sector, were: meet f...

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