small farms run by rich peasants‚ they are collectivised into huge farms run by the state. Other people will say that Stalin’s policies were not successful at all and lead to crippling famines‚ some of which was man made in order to suppress the population. These people will also claim that in Ukraine the peasants refused
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marchers that were in the Pilgrimage of Grace were peasants‚ according to Doc 3. The peasants were devoted Catholics who wanted people to be Catholic and love god in Document1. These devoted Catholic peasants did not view Henry Viii whose started everything as the central “bad guy” of this whole thing‚ but they viewed Thomas Cromwell as a traitor that should be exiled from this place in Document 6. There were many other people besides the peasants who participated in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Catholics
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a lord or king‚ and a vassal in a share of lands. The king gave large pieces of his land to his trusted workers or vassals‚ to distribute in return for services. These estates‚ called the fief‚ included houses‚ barns‚ tools‚ animals‚ and serfs or peasants. The king‚ in the act of giving out this land‚ promised to protect the vassal on the field or in the courts no matter what. In return‚ the nobles who were granted the fiefs swore an oath of loyalty to the king as well as promise never to fight against
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England up until the Second World War started. His thesis is that the famine was purposeful and thus constitutes genocide. He says that Stalin wanted to subdue Ukrainian nationalism‚ and the way Stalin believed to do that was to kill the Ukrainian peasants‚ especially the Kulaks‚ and that the famine was meant to kill them. Conquest in his work on the famine brings multiple sources and interpretations of them. He uses some censuses‚ specifically the one from 1937 which he says shows the major difference
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was dominated by class. The clergy and nobility were exempted from taxation leaving peasants who were barely scraping by to also suffer heavy taxation. This led to the system government not being able to levy enough tax to deficit. The second cause of this event; food scarcity was also a huge problem. Crop failure‚ famine and harsh winters led to high prices of bread‚ which was the main food source for peasants. The poor conditions in the rural had forced rural residents to move into Paris‚ and
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There are several factors that cause debate for why America withdrew from the war. These are the guerrilla tactics used by the Vietcong‚ the American tactics‚ failure by the Americans to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese peasants and public opinion of the war by American citizens. In this essay I aim to show why I believe the American tactics were the most important reason for why the US withdrew from Vietnam and I aim to demonstrate this by comparing these factors against
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geographically isolated but ideologically divided and there was no central ideology linking the White Armies. As a result‚ they were unable to provide an appealing alternative to the Bolshevik’s Red Army and found it difficult to rally up support among the peasants. This was partially due to the
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fragmented into three unequal hierarchical groups consisting Kings‚ lords and peasants. The kings ruled the land and were believed to have been granted this right by God that they passed on through heredity. They incarnated the law and were the absolute monarchs. The Lords on the other hand hold fiefs that they rented to peasants in exchange of labor‚ fees and protection. The Lords consider themselves far more superior than the peasants or serfs and treated them unfairly as a result. Lastly the serfs‚ representing
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status just like in our society today. Whether it’s a hundred years ago‚ or even a thousand the social system is relatively similar. For example‚ you can compare the high class in our society with the nobles and lords‚ and the lower class would be the peasants and the serfs. There are many similarities between our social class‚ so it is understandable there are other similarities between us; like our experiences in life are similar so compare this to the medieval ages. The Lords and the Nobles are one
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common occurrence in the 14th century. Driven by famine and plague‚ the peasants of Europe were driven to breaking the law to live. Hoping for a better life as well as a desire for wealth and status‚ they were always brutally suppressed by their cruel nobles. Of all the possible causes to this final effort to survive‚ a increasing gap between the poor and the wealthy‚ external causes‚ as well as inflation fueled the peasants to these revolts. One of the reasons for these revolts was because the
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