... " . Whilst in the short term it lead to equipment shortages once the factories were re-assembled, the Soviet Union had a strong manufacturing base to fuel their military resurgence. Agriculturally, collectivized farms provided the state with steady grain procurements ensuring cities could be fed despite the German occupation of 47% of Soviet pre-war crop area. Their success is evidenced in the ... occupying German forces retaining collectivized farms under German occupation . Iron production in 1946 was at 50% of its 1936 levels yet there was a 400% increase in tank production from 1941-...

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... 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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... . Russia, Italy, Germany also had secret police to monitor their people. KGB, Squadristi, and Gestapo are some of the names used for these organizations of secret police, respectively. In 1984, family could not even be trusted. Anyone at anytime could turn one another in for whatever reason causing everyone to fend for themselves and only for themselves. Everyone was considered a spy ... Party, who lived in much nicer homes. The situation of people inhibiting Oceania is just like the situation of people inhibiting Russia. In Russia, Stalin confiscated land and established collective farm...

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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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... 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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... 8- 12 rub a month, there is rise of about 100% in wages but a 300% rise in the cost to live (M.Morcombe, 1998, 66). In the country farmers were taken from their farms to join the army and because of this the production of crops decreased, along with farmers being taken train drivers, factory workers and people of other important trades so food ... Russian population, and they were the farmers, the factory workers, the bakers, train drivers and many others. But they were also the soldiers. The living conditions of working class Russian family at the time was extremely poor with run down ...

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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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