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    Collectivisation would ensure sufficient food resources in urban centres and Communists would provide peasants with new methods, seeds and advanced equipment, expected to reduce the workforce, so that more peasants would leave for the cities to contribute in the industry’s workforce. The idea behind collectivisation was that larger units of land would be administered and worked by farmers, as in NEP peasants only worked batches of land and the whole Russian countryside was disorganised.…

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    (Doc.5)This later on led to peasants leaving from these lands and abandoning their former duties.This weakened the empire's economy by not having a labor force and a decrease in…

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    that they would once again give them back their land and rights, and this concerned the left socialist revolutionary party, as they would soon be swimming in a pool of Moslems (p. 63). This could then create tension between themselves, the, Russian Peasant settlers and the Moslems, which could lead to a horrific, bloody end (p. 63). In the end it did indeed end up in a war between the Russians and Moslems, the Bolsheviks prevailed and Turkestan fell under the Bolshevik rule. The Bolshevik…

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    Serfs Characteristics

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    Peasants and serfs played a major role in the function of the manor. The serfs gave a substantial portion of their independence and work to the lord. The serfs made up approximately 90 percent of the population on the manor (King 27). Both freemen and serfs were peasants, however freemen were people who owned their land and could leave the manor whenever they pleased (Jovinelly 9). The serfs lived their busy lives in small, close homes with a limited, small plot of land as their backyard…

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    typical fairy tale, it follows all eight characteristics of a fairy tale: it takes place in an undefined time and place, contains flat characters, the ending was happy, contains an explicit prohibition, is sublimated, and contains a transformation. A peasant and his daughter were poor with no land, so they went to the King to beg him for land, granting…

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    Sophism In Athens

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    (Plutarch pg. 168). Damon understood that when one prepare a speech in front of a assembly they have to project their ideas like music to the listeners or assembly ear. This skill help aristocrats to become very convincing and gain the support of the peasant. In addition to rhetoric sophist teach natural philosophy also known as cross-examination. “Zeno had perfected a technique of cross-examination which enable him to corner his opponent by the method of question and answer” (Plutarch pg 168).…

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    on the other hand, emphasizes mixed-race, mestizo identities”(Chasteen 219). Racist ideas of what race was were no longer in the minds of the people. Nationalist were more interested in how they could help the country as a whole even helping the peasants go to school or helping them own land of their own, they embraced the fact that Latin America was made up of different groups of people. Integrating the whole country is better than just allowing the rich to…

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    Grigori Rasputin and the 1917 Russian Revolution One of the most significant events of Russian history was the 1917 Revolution. Predating the revolution, Russia was formed of a hierarchy society consisting of four piers; royalty, aristocracy, middle class and peasantry. After the 1917 Revolution, Russia was dismantled and transformed into the Soviet Union under the governance of the Communist Party. The Communist Party consisted of socialists with the objective to modernize their country-as…

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    The migrants’ inhabitance elicited mixed response from the urban residents. Whilst there was an extensive appreciation for peasant work, urban workplace contained new structures of control and discrimination targeted against ones of recent rural origin. By the mid-1990s, it was customary in the media to define the rural migrants as “blind floaters,” formally known as “floating…

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    other problems. If leaders were able to fix problems when they arose then peasants would not rebel, but if the government seemed to be unable to resolve problems then the peasants would rebel against the government. However, this is not how peasants experienced day to day life and viewed the social system they were a part of. To the average peasant there was not a great divide that existed between peasants and gentry. Peasant women had their feet bond just like wealthier women. In her story, A…

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