During the year 1917, two revolutions took place in Russia. ... This was followed by a general industrial strike on February 25, in Petrograd. ... Stalin was successful in establishing his dictatorship in the party, as well as in the country. Exhibit 12.4 Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin then inaugurated an era of Five-Year plans in order to convert the weak, agrarian Russian economy into a powerful and stable industrial economy. ... The success of the Russian Revolution, changed the character of the nationalist revolutions in the colonial world. ... The Bolshevik Revolution is still going ...

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The economic problems of the Russian empire emerged due to the lack of resources readily available for usage in stimulation of the economy; this ultimately created a slow crawl into an "Industrial Revolution" for the empire. ... As such, the lackluster amount of industrial development caused by limited exports subsequently created a negative domino effect for the rest of the economy. ... " The political problems primarily stem from the economic situation of the country, as the Russian empire lacked industrial development. But ultimately it can also be traced to social issues as...

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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 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...

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The revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. As a result, not only was Germany reunified in 1990, but soon, revolution spread to the Soviet Union itself. ... The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was effective in the extreme. ... Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919 From this, it is relatively simple to track the progress of official rhetoric. ... The attempts to create a mechanism more efficient than the market for coordinating and allocating resources, central planning, within the framework of a state bureaucra...

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Following Lenin and Trotsky's revolution and reign in Russia, Stalin began his massive political, social, and economic changes in 1928 with the First Five Year Plan, which was designed to cause rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. ... He aimed to make Russia militarily and industrially self sufficient, build a foundation for a worker's society, and expel the stereotype of Russia as being "backward ". ... Using the Industrial Revolution of Great Britain as a example, Stalin caused a agricultural revolution by his process of collectivization, which created c...

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This began when he assumed the name Stalin "man of steel" and it was this vision of him that drove him to lead the revolution that was to change the face of the Soviet Union forever. ... In order to begin his revolution he ensured there were no objections to him as leader through the elimination of party leaders such as: Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. ... This revolution was primarily concerned with making the Soviet Union strong and powerful enough to withstand any external threat. ... Stalin saw the Kulaks as a threat to the enforcement of his agricultural policy and in turn to his revolut...

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Old Major-s role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. ... Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. ... The windmill that is present in Animal Farm can be compared with the growth of industry in Russia or the Industrial Revolution. ... Russian Revolution, Grolier npa). ... Russian Revolution of 1917. ...

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Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. ... Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. ... The windmill that is present in Animal Farm can be compared with the growth of industry in Russia or the Industrial Revolution. ... ("Russian Revolution," Grolier ). ... "Russian Revolution of 1917." ...

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Stalin did improve Russia's industrial system, but he had a negative effect on Russian society. ... Russia was lagging behind the rest of the world in that they had not had a formal Industrial Revolution. ... The purpose of this plan was to increase the country's industrial production. ... By the end of the Second Five Year Plan, the Soviet Union was arising as a strong industrial country. ... The Soviet Union now had a well-established industrial base capable of further expansion and growth. ...

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Stalin did improve Russia's industrial system, but he had a negative effect on Russian society. ... Russia was lagging behind the rest of the world in that they had not had a formal Industrial Revolution. ... The purpose of this plan was to increase the country's industrial production. ... By the end of the Second Five Year Plan, the Soviet Union was arising as a strong industrial country. ... The Soviet Union now had a well-established industrial base capable of further expansion and growth. ...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... Under capitalism two new classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are formed where the factory owners and merchants exploit the industrial workers. ... Given Lenin's passionate desire for revolution and to implement socialism it may be argued that at the time Lenin and other Bolsheviks believed that they were establishing socialism. ... Pipes argues that "War Communism as a whole was not a 'temporary measure' but an ambitious a...

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Russian Revolution began with the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917. ... Farmer Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Overthrown by the revolution and later executed by the Bolsheviks; Old Major is Marx and perhaps Marxist-Leninism; Boxer and Clover represent the proletariat (the urban industrial worker)-and more remotely the Chinese revolutionaries of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion; Napoleon stands for Joseph Stalin; Snowball is Leon Trotsky; Mollie is at heart a White Russian with little sympathy for Bolshevik aims; the raven Moses stands for the Russian Orthodox church and ...

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In 1966 began the Cultural Revolution, organized by Mao against the members of the Party. ... The purchases abroad were limited in order to reform the industrial economy. ... China favours the establishment of foreign company (273 000 in 1996 who employ 17 millions of people) and China buys a lot of foreign technology to improve the industrial sector. ...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole ...

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He would read literature written by Karl Marx, a German political philosopher, and soon he would join the revolution called Russian Marxism. ... He would hold protests, and continue to network with other members of the revolution. ... Stalin didn't really have much to do with the revolution, he wrote a few editorials for a popular Russian newspaper, but his contributions where minimal at best. ... Besides an Industrial Revolution Stalin set out to fix the lagging agricultural production in his five year plans. ... Almost all of the original Bolsheviks who had played a role in the Revoluti...

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The abdication led Russia to change significantly with immediate consequences such as political turmoil, short term consequences such as the revolution and long term consequences such as Stalin ruling of Russia. ... The Bolsheviks believed that the revolution should be lead by a small group of dedicated and skilled revolutionaries, they would lead the party and make all the decisions. ... Lenin wanted to get back to Russia to start another revolution and became allied with the Germans who gave him safe transport into Russia. ... The theory said that it was the time to start another revolution...

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With the rise of The Communist Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union developed awkward relations with the United States. ... e hand at Russian cities and industrial centres. ... Castro's 26th July Movement, was established to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, and to create the Cuban Revolution. ... Cuban government was now starting to get some improvement, the Soviet Union agreed to supply Cuba with machinery for farming and industrial plants on credit that is, but this was much better than the credit Cuba received from America, oh wait a minute, what credit? ...

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The struggle to succeed Lenin was a turning point of the Russian revolution. ... They believed that USSR must be turned into an industrial country as quickly as possible. After two years of the NEP, Trotsky declared, the growth in industrial production was still lagging far behind the recovery in agriculture...so a change had to be made by lowering industrial goods" prices, through the planned modernization, concentration and expansion of industry. ...

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In 1918, after the fall of the Russian Empire due to the Russian Revolution, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation declared independence of a state that consisted mostly of lands held by the former Russian Empire. ... Armenia was an industrial complex of the Soviet Union dependent upon the other republics to have a stable economy, but since independence, it has diversified its economy to better provide for itself. ...

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The Bolshevik Revolution, headed by Vladimir Lenin, had seized power after Czar Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917 (2). ... China, being less technologically advanced than The Soviet Union, wished to increase domestic and industrial development faster than that of the Soviet Union. ...

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Through an armed revolt known as the Cuban Revolution, Castro wanted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba through a dictatorship. ... In 1929 Khrushchev moved to Moscow to attend the Stalin Industrial Academy, where he soon became leader of the academy's Communist Party organization. ...

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