Yet, for all of Stalin’s positive accomplishments, he also seemed quite the negative ruler, First, Stalin developed a system of collective farming that combined once privately owned farms into large farms, operated by the government. This put an end to individual profits. New he stressed, everything for the state must come first, the individual is
In this aspect the changes brought about by this policy were successful as it resulted in a Bolshevik victory in the war as it ‘...did the job of supplying towns and armies with just enough food and supplies to keep providing war material and to keep fighting. In this way it was successful.’ (David Christian, Power and Privilege) When focusing on its second goal, ‘to build a socialist society’ (David Christian) then the changes it brought about where highly ineffective. Although War Communism was successful in moving the country closer to Communistic ideology with the idea that everything is communal and each is given according to his needs, the socialist aim to have unity and peace amongst the
Plan: * He was a natural-born leader; intelligent, charismatic etc * He gave his speech of "peace, land and bread" * he released the April Theses * he was utterly meticulous; left nothing to chance * he made effective use of propaganda and influence to control his followers Opposition to argument : * Problem with people liking one party rule Problems: * press – banned October ‘17 * political parties – outlawed Kadets, arrested political leaders * land ownership - gave peasants the right to estates * lack of food – bread rationing * paranoid Lenin could be said to have been the best leader Russia had ever had. It could also be said he was the worst. As a leader, he was successful, he had power and he had followers. Lenin was a natural-born leader; he was strong, wise and extremely loyal to his beliefs. The people adored him at first, His April Theses kept his Marxist beliefs in check, and he used it in order to rule Russia in a communist manner.
They also appointed officials. These meetings molded the political structure of the colonies, and even Thomas Jefferson stated, was “the best school of political liberty the world ever saw.” Not only did the Puritans influence the colonies politically, they also influenced them economically. The Puritans were hard workers. They believed that only prosperity and success could be achieved through piety and hard work. The Puritans worked mostly on farms and traded their goods for other goods that they could not produce themselves.
The basic way to describe socialism is a lighter form of communism. I don't agree with the authors ideas on government because it is know about eighty years after the story was written and we have gotten along just fine while other countries have relied on communism and collapsed. Sinclair’s purpose in writing The Jungle was to persuade people to join the socialist party and to adopt the view that socialism is the only way to conquer the capitalistic empires that abuse the working class. The socialist ethic is that the general public will have joint ownership of the factory. Sinclair uses many clever devices in order to get his readers to agree with this ethic.
* Napoleon bought stability which inevitably benefitted everyone after the chaos of the revolution FIRST PARAGRAPH (FACTOR IN THE QUESTION....IF THERE ISN’T ONE, START WITH MOST IMPORTANT) * Religious reforms (most important as it showed Napoleon exercising religious toleration) * Benefitted everyone, including the poor, peasants were very religious and had been afraid of the prospect of hell after the French revolution had effectively wiped out religion in France; therefore, when Napoleon introduced the concordat in 1801, the peasants were happy with the reinstating of Catholicism in France. * Concordat showed Napoleon being very tolerant of religion as whilst Catholicism was previously the state religion it became merely the majority religion; the religious toleration meant that Protestants and Jews were able to practice their faiths openly and freely; Napoleon took this a step further and paid the protestant clergy as he did the catholic clergy * Religious reforms put forth by Napoleon during the consulate benefitted the French public and showed Napoleon physically practising the idea of equality; however, some would argue that as Napoleon did make himself the head of the church in France which could be interpreted to mean that he wanted to ensure that he had influence
The movement was based around the six-point charter, which though was classed by many liberals as fair and democratic it can be argued that it was too radical for the time period 1836-58 thus being the reason as why Chartism failed. However in Source 6 Robert Ellis argues that though Chartism failed to achieve its primary aims, it united the working-class and produced the ability to of the working-class to “be organised on an unprecedented scale in support of a political programme. Source 6 further expresses how Chartism succeeded with producing “improvements in literacy and communication” strengthening the position of the working class people. Political dissatisfaction had built up amongst the working and middle class in Britain during the industrial revolution in the 19th Century. As a result of lack of political equality and social justice, in June 1840 the National Chartist Association was formed and the first stage of Chartism commenced.
And after gaining the capital, Pol Pot declared “Year Zero.” Pol Pot created the Cambodia Genocide, to help create his new society. The people that were targeted were: members of the former government, Buddhist monks, Muslims, educated people including university students and teachers, people in contact with Westerners or Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge started out with rejecting higher education, and was purging those who were. And by
The Khmer Rouge’s sole purpose was to seize power. They believed that the population must be made to work as laborers in one huge alliance of collective farms. Anyone in opposition - and all intellectuals and educated people were assumed to be - must be eliminated, together with all non-Communist aspects of traditional Cambodian society. (www.ppu.org.uk 2) Victims of the Khmer Rouge racism included ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai, and also Cambodians with Chinese, Vietnamese or Thai ancestry. Under the threat of death, residents were forced to leave their towns and cities.
It is evident that Mao Zedong's abilities to control the party and to know how to improve its stranglehold on China, was the main reason for the CCP's survival. After the White Terror, where about 5,000 communists had been killed, the CCP were in disarray and mainly due to Mao's abilities in turning the situation into a positive, were the CCP able to survive. Mao used the White Terror to signal a way forward for the CCP; he used propaganda to make the peasants feel sympathetic towards the CCP and so would support them. This tactic meant that the support for the CCP started to rise again. This was pivotal to the survival of the CCP as they needed to increase their numbers.