... brother, Grand Duke Mikhail, the new Tsar. The grand duke wisely declined the title, bringing the 304-year-old Romanov dynasty to an end. The provisional government allowed the royal family to stay in the palace at Tsarskoye Selo, under guard, while officials debated their fate. The Romanov's had given Lenin a major problem. Vladimir Illych Ulanov, the Bolshevik leader who had ... provisional government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks (led by Vladimir Lenin) during the October/November 1917 Russian Revolution, Nicholas and his family came under control of the Bolsheviks. The decision w...

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At the end of World War II the effects were everywhere. It affected every country, and every family in some way or form. Ukraine is one of the countries who had suffered the most from the war and the consequences of it. From the ruling of the Germans ( ... wealth in ruins. The total damage during the war was 1000 billion US$ throughout the nation including the destruction of 16 000 industrial enterprises, 714 towns/cities, 28 000 state farms, etc. The road to recovery wasn't that easy in the beginning due to the famine of 1946, but steadily improved with the Soviets "Five-Year" plans. Not onl...

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... 's plan for reforming Russia. Many of Stalin's changes were not welcome or were not well implemented. Stalin ordered all of Russia's farmland to be collectivized, or turned into huge, organized farms. This was not done very efficiently or effectively, and for the first few years after Russia was collectivized, food production fell dramatically. Famine swept Russia, and many people starved to ... his political party from 1934 to 1938 (Stalin Man 1653). After 1930, Stalin completely forfeited his personal life for his political life. Stalin's second wife committed suicide in 1932. Without ...

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... Germanic people, the Celts were focused to move. The Germanic people claimed their land, farming and raising cattle. Most people living in Germany are ethnic Germans. They can trace their family back to the people who settled their around 300 B.C. "Other people have come to Germany more recently. People from other countries such as Turkey, India, and Yugoslavia moved to Germany ... Germany. Many have beautiful old houses and winding streets."" (Lane page 18) Some people who live in villages work in the factories and offices of nearby cities. Others work on farms. Half timbered houses ar...

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... of the Duma. The mutiny of the troops occurred on March 1, 1917. Though the Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate on March 2, 1917, all the members of the royal family remained under house arrest, until they were shot dead on July 16, 1918. This brought the Czarism in Russia to an end. A provisional coalition government came into existence by March ... to convert the weak, agrarian Russian economy into a powerful and stable industrial economy. He also attempted to get rid of the Kulaks, by mechanization and the collectivization of all the farms. Thus the First Five-Year Plan in 1928, ...

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... 's plan for reforming Russia. Many of Stalin's changes were not welcome or were not well implemented. Stalin ordered all of Russia's farmland to be collectivized, or turned into huge, organized farms. This was not done very efficiently or effectively, and for the first few years after Russia was collectivized, food production fell dramatically. Famine swept Russia, and many people starved to ... his political party from 1934 to 1938 (Stalin Man 1653). After 1930, Stalin completely forfeited his personal life for his political life. Stalin's second wife committed suicide in 1932. Without ...

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... Iosif was the only one of their children to survive childhood. Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his family to work in a factory in Tiflis which was the capital of Georgia when Stalin was five years old. For the rest of Stalin's childhood, Joseph and Yekaterina lived in the ... . Production of industrial machinery and farm equipment became more important, and production of clothing and household goods was neglected. In 1929 Stalin ended private farming and transferred the control of farms, farm equipment, a...

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