... important men had as many as twenty concubines Peasant women didn't usually have to be put through all these traumas, but their ordeal was just as bad, if not worse. They were under the control of a landlord. It was his prerogative to use and abuse any of the peasant women, as ... discuss the individual problems, it is easiest to split the peasants up into two groups. Landed peasants, and non landed peasants. Before 1949, the peasants with no land didn't really have a life worth living. Their live expectancy was short, due to their poor health. Disease was common. They lived on the pove...

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... about one million people to "clean up" the country. This and more was detailed in the Five-Year Plan, aimed at developing economic growth and land reform (Cairns). In effort to ameliorate the land ownership, the government murdered millions of landlords in effort to redistribute farmland for the peasants control. Killing millions is no justification for growing a country. Though there ... process. It was not fair at all, because Mao was forcing them to give up the land they owned. They deserved the right to keep their own land without the government barging in, taking their land, and ki...

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... The ruling class, also known as the Patricians, ran these civilizations. They were extremely wealthy, well educated, and had control over most of the land. The middle class of citizens comprised of few individuals during this time, and the working class during that period consisted of people who were treated like ... The relatively small groups of Nobles were beginning to become upset because the peasants that were once producing for solely for their use, were now leaving that land to become wage laborers for the middle class. As time went on, the middle class would soon be the new ruli...

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... his many quotations, the thought of communism throughout china, usually by the peasants, was accepted. Mao's quotations include 3 Do's, 3 Don'ts, 3 Main rules of discipline, 8 rules for attention, 8 bad types of people, 2 supports, 2 defy's, 2 haves, 3 stresses, 8 evils, 2 whatever's, 3 principles of peaceful coexistence, 4 clean-ups, 4 olds, 10 fighting tasks, 3 great differences, ... fairness they made a very deep impression, they showed the policies of the communists by fixing fair rents for the peasants and giving land to the landless, and unlike the Kuo Min Tang army they did not ...

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... competitive by nature and would never be happy in a society where everyone is equal and there is no chance of advancement. Sir Thomas More dreamt of a land that was much like England but could never surpass time. He opened the eyes of a nation and made its people desire something new. Views were significantly changed ... an English farmer in the 1500's with the exception of living with so many other people. Much like in England, the Utopian farmer did not own the land he farmed or the house he lived in. It was simply a question of who owned the place one farmed - a rich lord in England or...

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... the course of Russia by ensuring that his party would resort to dictatorship rather than bow to the will of the masses. In both countries, there is a sense that the bad eventually drives out the good, as one evil progressively replaces another. In France, dissatisfaction leads to widespread terror and violence. In Russia, it leads to Lenin and communism. The statement ... for the Romanov dynasty. So things were looking good for the people. Utopian visions of a democratic state seemed almost tantalisingly achievable. Until Lenin appeared with attractive slogans like, "Peace, Bread. Land"...

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... does exist, has not been proven false. As a result capitalism exploit's the working class, women are being badly treated, and it has created a bad quality of life for the proletarian family. In the novel The Jungle, Sinclair is able to prove Marx perspectives through Jurgis and his family and show how ... power that gives them the ability to humiliate the working class by keeping them oppress and allowing them to work in bad conditions. For example Jurgis who worked long hours, found himself still not being able to prosper and gain success in his work. Jurgis's father ... of an income a...

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... this was when transactions involved foreign trade. This meant that they could trade different currency for rubles or vice versa. Another economic problem was the decrease of employment due to bad economy. The economy was helped by mining and agriculture. Mining was a major part of Russia's income for exports. Russia leads the world in mining of nickel and second in the ... world in production of aluminum. Agriculture also provides some income to the economy. Although Russia is so big only 8% is fertile land and they're trying to conserve it and use it wisely. Russia is also known to be ...

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... by passing out leaflets and putting stories in the newspapers that were not true. They told workers, soldiers, and peasants to not trust their own hands and to take away land from the landowners. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 80). Another item that is similar in both Animal Farm and Russia are the dogs and the secret police. Napoleon trained his dogs when ... blew down, Napoleon blamed it on Snowball. Napoleon thought that if he could keep the barnyard animals busy all the time replacing the windmill that they would not realize how bad their living conditions were, and he could blame the de...

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... by passing out leaflets and putting stories in the newspapers that were not true. They told workers, soldiers, and peasants to not trust their own hands and to take away land from the landowners. (Golubeva and Gellerstein 80). Another item that is similar in both Animal Farm and Russia are the dogs and the secret police. Napoleon trained his dogs when ... blew down, Napoleon blamed it on Snowball. Napoleon thought that if he could keep the barnyard animals busy all the time replacing the windmill that they would not realize how bad their living conditions were, and he could blame the de...

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... with Sun Yat Sen's Revive China Society to form the Tongmenhui. These groups aimed to overthrow the Qing, establish a republic, get rid of foreign powers, develop democratic ideas and distribute land to the peasants. The alliance drew Sun into the mainstream revolutionary activity and provided a platform for his emerging philosophy "The Three Principles" of Nationalism, Democracy and People's Livelihood. The Tongmenhui ... the warlords, he was still prepared, with perseverance and courage, to rebuild a programme from the ruins of the old." I believe that Sun's lack of support of Song Ji...

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... such as radio and press making it easy for them to portray Hitler and Nazism as the way for Germans to flourish and Communism as evil and posters showing the bad side of Communism pushed this through. These rejected Individual Rights and Freedoms as well as Self-Interest because people were not allowed to have their political party, their freedom of ... the decisions involving the economy of the nation-state. They had to reach quotas and become food-producing factories. It also rejected Private Property since nobody was allowed to own land, it had all to be collectivized. There was also...

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... face of the earth by offering a secular state that is supposed to be sufficient for all. In more contemporary literature pieces, George Orwell gave us a view of what a utopia gone bad might look like. In Aldous Huxley's version of utopia, we see that no matter how wonderful everything is on the outside, there are still underlying differences among all of us ... words of Lewis Mumford, "The word "utopia" stands in common usage for the ultimate in human folly or human hope. It is the vain dream of perfection in a Never-Never Land or rational efforts to remake man's environment and his ins...

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... one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even ... the proletariat."(Gardner, 97) What was established in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution was not true communism ("animalism"), which Orwell approved of, where the people owned all the factories and land. Rather, "state ...

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... one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even ... the proletariat." (Gardner, 97) What was established in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution was not true communism ("animalism"), which Orwell approved of, where the people owned all the factories and land. Rather, "state...

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... among other party members of the left, had favoured War Communism because it had helped to win the Civil War but although War Communism had guaranteed Russia's survival, it was a bad system and had many problems. Many died, or at least came off worse; the Kulaks (wealthier peasants) did not want to surrender their crops, so burnt them rather than allow ... 's friends were drawn into the Politburo-Voroshilov, Kirov and Molotov. By 1928, Stalin felt strong enough to propose a radical change-the 5-year plans (1928) and Collectivisation (1928). These meant that land, agriculture and industry...

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... government. Marx would not be able to write this manifesto without this right. It also means that the state will censor where you go and leaving the country, like in bad times. 7. Basically what Marx meant here, is that there is always improvement and progress agriculturally, and that agriculture and farming should be very important. This happens in a normal country, but ... ? People are lazy; Marx obviously does not understand this because everything was always given to him one way or another him. Third, numbers three through five (government takes money and land from inheritance, emigr...

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... one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even ... the proletariat." (Gardner, 97) What was established in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution was not true communism ("animalism"), which Orwell approved of, where the people owned all the factories and land. Rather, "state...

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... one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even ... the proletariat." (Gardner, 97) What was established in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution was not true communism ("animalism"), which Orwell approved of, where the people owned all the factories and land. Rather, "state...

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... developed from the struggle between the feudal aristocracy and the emerging capitalist class, both groups in numerical terms forming a minority of the population. Capitalism involved the replacing of privately owned land and an agricultural economy by privately owned capital and an industrial class. Marx believed that religion could only hinder the development of a Capitalist society. One of his reasons for this ... change of values towards saving and investing money and capital. They also differ on some points such as the division of labour. Division of labour Marx viewed as having onl...

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