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    Emperor Kangxi came into power at a very young age of seven years old and was a scholar‚ whose reign lasted until 1722. In his reign‚ he helped China overcome tension between ethnic Chinese and Manchu‚ and move China forward. This document was written between 1693 and 1718‚ which showed Kangxi way of ruling and perspective as a ruler. Manchu’s faced governmental and economic problems and Emperor approach these problems with the peoples in his thought. Emperor Kangxi approached the problems that

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    of the CCP can be seen in their social aspects and the support of peasants‚ which were the vast majority of people. They owned limited amount of land‚ had high rents‚ low productivity‚ were in dept and many lived on the edge of starvation. In addition‚ having peasant support for the CCP can supply with food resources. Therefore‚ Mao understood the first goal he had to achieve was the support from peasants. First‚ he set up peasant unions of Hunan from 1925-27‚ then in 1838-45 when Chiang had their

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    "Coming and Going: Round Trip to America‚" by Mark Wyman‚ his goal and his main arguments for the article were to explain how immigration‚ emigration‚ and migration has destroyed old peasant villages. He is also trying to argue that the modern world has struggles hard to maintain the comforting thought of a peasant culture that is rooted to the soil. The author achieved his goal in this article because he gave lots of examples of how immigration‚ migration and emigration and how they changed a lot

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    To a certain extent Stalin did meet‚ in places‚ the overly optimistic aims for the Five Year Plans yet this was to be at the cost of millions of lives and the livelihoods of many Russian peasants who were to be ruthlessly killed‚ extradited or simply stripped of their land and possessions. The success of the Five Year Plans can be judged upon the entry of Russia into the Second World War for this was to be the first big test of the newly industrialised state on the world stage. Stalin had aimed to

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    Nicholas was a weak and incompetent ruler. He allowed himself to be influenced by people who did not want any changes to take place in Russia. In Russia there were huge differences between the rich and the poor. About four-fifths of the population were peasants many of whom could not read or write. In the towns workers were squashed into very poor accommodation. The Tsars autocracy was very badly organized and caused many conflicts between the people and the Russian government. It had been like this for

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    brought up the story of the young peasant being accused of murdering his mistress new service man‚ to give us an insight of Werther’s mind. Throughout the whole story you see his obsession growing like a parasite‚ feeding on the enjoyment he once had for life‚ and taking over every aspect of his life‚ there is no relief. When Werther first met the young peasant and heard his story he thought it was beautiful story of passion. In the book he described the peasant boys love as‚ “I should need gifts

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    sparked a wave of riots and strikes by the peasants and workers against the landowners. 400‚000 workers went on strike by the end of January. In June‚ sailors of the battleship Potemkin held a naval mutiny. The workers set up Soviets in towns‚ which were a huge threat to the Tsar’s power. From the powerful Tsar and the nobility to the deprived peasants‚ Russia’s was a hierarchal and highly unequal society. The majority of its population was the landless peasants and workers. Serfdom had been abolished

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    role in their hierarchy. One’s estate was a major role in a person’s social status. Its either a person was born a peasant of a noble men’s blood. This was one of the concrete factors in one’s life because regardless if one turned out to be a successful‚ or failure in life they still had their birth right. For my understanding there was there specific classes

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    collectivization that all had their successes and failures in terms of the country as a whole‚ or just the single-party leader. Collectivization was a process that included abolishing individual control of farmland by "collecting" small plots of peasant land and their resources into large-scale land units that were managed by the government. Stalin wanted to modernize the inefficient agriculture system based on small plots. In some ways‚ collectivization proved to be successful. For example‚ it established

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    What in your view is the short-term impact of collectivisation on Soviet society at the time? In my view there are a number of significant impacts of collectivisation which were the famine‚ elimination of the kulaks and successful creation of collective farms‚ I believe these made major impact because of their scope and pace which they occurred. One of the short-term impacts of collectivisation on soviet society was the famine‚ which killed millions in the major grain producing areas of the

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