Cuba also ranked among the highest in Latin America at that time in terms of literacy rate, food consumption, and access to mass media. ... This, in turn led to higher costs and lower levels of production, high food prices, and chronic food shortages, exacerbated in 1998 by drought. ...
The system was inefficient because without private ownership there were no profits to encourage business to work better or faster. ... The shortcomings of the centrally planned economy together with overspending on the weapons and the war in Afghanistan had led to the rationing of food. ... For example inefficient factories were closed, food subsidies were reduced, farmers were able to lease land and make a private profit. ...
Firstly through the subsidies of the government that paid to food farmers crops stopped, resulting in the increase of price for these products, and secondly the import regime was liberalized causing an increase of goods imported from foreign countries (Ahmed). ... The main reasons the agriculture in this region is on a decline is because of the dependence on foreign food, and the minimal help to small farmers to help move their products and because of the use of out date technique and technology to aid their agricultural skills (Ahmed). ... It's now amazing how fast news now spreads aroun...
Soon after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev positioned himself as the new leader of the communist party in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev's rise to power was well executed and had strikingly similar characteristics to that of Stalin's rise to power. "Like Stalin he climbed to powe...
Soon after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev positioned himself as the new leader of the communist party in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev's rise to power was well executed and had strikingly similar characteristics to that of Stalin's rise to power. "Like Stalin he climbed to powe...
The struggle to succeed Lenin was a turning point of the Russian revolution. Lenin's death in 1924 gave way to a fierce struggle for power developed among the members of the Politburo (the ruling body of the Communist Party which decided its policies) who had to choose which of them should take his...
