... Russia was too fragile to face war with Germany and without stability or peace, the Bolshevik regime would barely survive. However, this democratic experiment resulted in a loss of 2 million square kilometers of land and the loss of 60 million people, as well as 74% of iron ore and coal reserves. Denounced as a "betrayal of the Bolshevik proletariat" by Lionel Kochan, popular support ... for the Bolsheviks heavily decreased due to the large loss of territory and the professed surrender to Imperial Germany. Consequently, as the Bolsheviks only gained 24% of the vote in the elections of...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... sector. More specifically, these problems included: monocropping and overspecialization, excessive intensification, dependence on external inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, animal feed concentrates, machinery, irrigation equipment), large scale deforestation, salinization, erosion, compaction, fertility loss of soil, heavy rural-urban migration (56% in 1956, 28% in 1989). This should not come as a surprise, considering the last line of the Communist Manifesto: "Working men of all ... ...

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... acting on behalf of a majority ignorant of its best interests. It was ideology, not a mandate, that legitimized the party." Stalin's brutal policy-enforcement and paranoid terrorism entailed tremendous suffering and loss of life; the interests of the individual were entirely sacrificed to those of the state in the advancement of the sacred task of the Socialist revolution. "Stalin inherited a system that ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... acting on behalf of a majority ignorant of its best interests. It was ideology, not a mandate, that legitimized the party." Stalin's brutal policy-enforcement and paranoid terrorism entailed tremendous suffering and loss of life; the interests of the individual were entirely sacrificed to those of the state in the advancement of the sacred task of the Socialist revolution. "Stalin inherited a system that ... ...

• Word Count: 1534
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate