... ; thus food, drink and tobacco lost 113,000 men, but gained 34,000 women; commerce and finance lost 555,000, but gained 449,000; and the Civil Service and Local Service lost 173,000 men, and gained 201,000 women. Between July 1914 and November 1918, a total net increase of nearly 1,200,000 ... and equipment and it supplied workers. Several thousand tractors were sent out but the distribution of land between pasture and the different crops reverted rapidly to the pre-war proportions and the crops of 1924-8 bore a remarkable similarity to the crops grown in 1909-13. Under the Corn Producti...

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Throughout the period of 1917 to 1941 the majority of the many changes in soviet foreign policy were not results of pre-determined ideology, but rather a pragmatism that resulted from the varying situations. It can be seen that the Bolsheviks, although conclusive in their thoughts often determined their philosophy was not always ... discontinued the attacks on democratic socialists to gain the support of the bourgeois class in France and Britain, however he did this for national interests rather then ideology. The Spanish civil war caused uncertainties for the Soviet Union as they were unabl...

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