In Poltava and Kharkov provinces, mass impoverishment of the peasants, which was exacerbated by the poor harvests of 1901 led to 40,000 peasants took part in an uprising where they also ransacked 150 landlord properties. The barricade between the peasants and landlords strengthened in the years of the Red cockerel 1903-4 where peasants set fire to landlord barns. This peasant unrest was supplemented by the fact that the price of grain increased due to hyper during the Russo-Japanese war in 1904 due and the wages of peasants failed to increase with it therefore many peasants were left to starve and were angered hence more likely to revolt. It was evident that introducing new policies which would avoid bad harvests thus preventing mass starvation would oppress opposition. Also, there was a need to lower the price of grain to make it affordable to impoverished peasants as they were most likely to revolt.
• Did the NEP really fail or did it suit Stalin to make it look as though it had? (Scissor Crisis)Look at statistics to see how far production increased during the NEP • Was the change due to economic circumstances (e.g. need for self-sufficiency; grain procurement crisis)? • Or did he have other motives e.g. political (defeat of the right –Bukharin), • Ideological (NEP hated by communists; class war against the kulaks; socialism in one country), • Strategic (i.e.
Writing Assignment Georgia History The Great Depression forever changed and effected Americans, the economy, and surrounding nations greatly. Millions of Americans lost their jobs and homes. The economy experienced major defaults in banking and trading. Europe and many other nations were set back from many of our inabilities to finance their needs and help with their broken economies as well. Many events as a whole led to the depression.
The Polish and Hungarian Uprisings: A Comparison Poland 1863: Polish uprising Background: Previously independent country, disliked Russian rule (Tsar a point of contention) Peasants used to independence, Nobility and emancipation used to localise control, made their lives worse (WHY) Inspired by “Emancipation”, AII open to change? 1861=expecting change Hungary 1956: Hungarian uprising Background: Previously independent country up until 1945 Disliked Russian rule- Moscow based Politburo Workers used independence or capitalist economy (WHAT) Politicians used to localised control, now run by Moscow, left wing, 1930s pre-Fascists (WHAT) Inspired by “Secret Speech”, Khrushchev open to change? Poland Uprisings: The revolt Peasants and nobility united in opposition, united by nationality Peasants demanded “2nd emancipation” Nobility demanded greater freedoms, political independence Desire for national independence? Hungarian Uprisings: The revolt People elect a socialist party, united by nationality (WHAT) People demand a “different approach” Politicians want greater devolution from Moscow,
How far can the reign of Khrushchev be seen as a success? After the death of Stalin, Khrushchev was the leader of the Ussr from september 1953 - october 14th 1964. The reign of khrushchev could be seen as an overall failure due to his failed reforms which cost him the support of the army, farmers/ workers. He was concerned with major events such as the cuban missile crisis, signing the warsaw pact, the soviet space program, the U-2 and berlin crisis and he also played an important part in de- Stalinisation. Under Khrushchev’s leadership russia experienced both political and agricultural reform in the form of abolishing the special tribunals, forced hospitalisation & planting the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and western Siberia.
Zachary Young Contemp. U.S History HIS 229 1) The main topic in the film we watched in Mondays’ class was The Great Famine in Russia in the early 1900’s. The Great Famine was detrimental to Russia. It killed millions of people, and could be said to have started with an economic crisis. 2) There were a few “major players” involved with this situation, but I think the main figure was President Herbert Hoover.
Soviet rule came to Hungary and Poland post second world war, from ‘above and abroad’, as it did with all of Eastern Europe (except perhaps Yugoslavia and Albania). This immediately made for an uneasy rule for Stalin and the Soviet party in these states. Poland especially was one of the Soviets most difficult and unhappy satellite states and though Stalinist rule was perhaps not the most extreme, as oppose to in Hungary, it was Stalinist
‘An economic success, but a human failure’ – how accurate is this interpretation of Stalin’s economic policies of the 1930’s Stalin’s economic policies during the 1930s was to introduce Collectivization and the Five Year plan: both were aimed to boost Russia’s industrialization and agriculture within a short period of time in order to catch up to the world’s leading powers, that is, America and Britain at the time. In Stalin’s perspective, it was necessary to go to any lengths to reverse the backward economy of the country as fast as possible to overtake other countries. Without it, he viewed it as a defeat to the Socialist fatherland and a loss of international independence. This essay will examine the economic successes of his policies and whether they were fully achieved. In addition it will also examine the human failures; this would be defined as human loss, death and or a decrease in living conditions and quality of life.
The proletariat being the working class and the bourgeoisie were the middle class. There was also the kulak that was the independent farmers. How all of these social classes fitted into the communist social structure was hard to imagine and would prove hard for Lenin and the communist to figure out. When Tsarism had collapsed there was some uncertainty in how Russia would by ruled because Tsarism was all that Russia had ever known. Most other European nations who had once had a monarch had all had revolutions and changed from Feudalism to capitalism for example France and the same occurrence in Germany.
How far were Mao’s agricultural policies responsible for the scale of the great famine in China? The collectivisation programme Mao had established in 1956 aimed to massively increase agricultural and industrial production yet instead it is argued that it led to the worst famine in China’s history. A variety of reasons were cited for the famine most notable were the poor weather conditions, deliberate policy and Lysenkoism, though perhaps the most significant of all was indeed Mao’s policy of collectivisation. Mao’s collectivisation policy had been seen to compliment his industrialisation plans, and to revolutionise Chinese food production. He intended to provide an industrial basis for China by ordering 25,000 strictly regimented communes, thus making agriculture more efficient which would enable more farmers to labour in industry.