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    There were many strains as to being up under Stalin during the modernization periods. There was not only a major change during World War I‚ but this also caused the domestic policies to have a drastic effect. Many nations had unified with Russia during this time of tragedy within their entrance into the war. From what I have learned a source stated that‚ “military reversals and the government’s incompetence soon soured the attitude of much of the population. With German having control of both

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    Bernard Malamud‚ born April 26‚ 1914‚ Brooklyn‚ N.Y.‚ U.S.‚ American novelist and short-story writer who made parables out of Jewish immigrant life. Malamud’s parents were Russian Jews who had fled tsarist Russia. He was born in Brooklyn‚ where his father owned a small grocery store. The family was poor. Malamud’s mother died when he was 15 years old‚ and he was unhappy when his father remarried. He then assumed responsibility for his handicapped brother. Malamud was educated at the City College

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    and some of them did not even own lands (Go Social Studies Go). Aside from that‚ working conditions were unfavorable for the workers‚ and Russia’s corrupt bureaucratic system broke the people. Instead of being an effective working machinery of the tsarist government‚ bureaucrats were condemned by the Russians. This is because they were easily bribed since most of them were uneducated. As such‚ the laboring class was

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    saw the need to usher his country into the modern world through drastic measures‚ thus leading to his great reforms. The most significance changes were made between the years 1861-1871‚ in particularly‚ the social‚ political and military aspect of Tsarist Russia. The reforms implemented by the Tsar can be seen as Russia striving to emerge as a superpower amongst the West. There is historical controversy as the sources suggest that Alexander II used the reforms to strengthen autocracy and secure his

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    “To what extent did the Bolsheviks succeed in the October Revolution and the Civil War due to weakness in opposition?” The Bolsheviks were not a majority party in Russia‚ and it is therefore quite an achievement that they not only managed to gain power‚ but that they held on to it. On paper‚ you would not have thought the Bolsheviks would have been able to seize power or maintain it if faced with any substantial opposition‚ so does this mean that their success was dependant on the weakness of

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    this toppled the Russian tsarist regime. This raised Germans hopes that Russia would exit the war. These hopes didn’t last for long because there was a new liberal government in Russia‚ they then decided to continue fighting against Germany and all the central powers. Towards the end of march. However‚ the German foreign office and the high command agreed to send one of the exiled Bolshevik leaders his name was Vladimir Lenin‚ and another 31 émigrés opposed to the tsarists and the liberals from Switzerland

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    The internal and external influences on the Russian class structure along with the failure of the tsarist regime left the country powerless to prevent revolutionary forces from developing or expanding. The advancing social awareness‚ literacy‚ and desire for land rights by the peasant class were an overwhelming and underestimated influences by the intelligentsia‚ provisional government and the tsarist regime. These described cultural changes and leadership failures‚ coupled with an the paralysis of

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    Robert W. Strayer Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources Second Edition Chapter 17 Revolutions of Industrialization‚ 1750–1914 Copyright © 2013 by Bedford/St. Martin’s I. Explaining the Industrial Revolution A. Why Europe? 1. Technology‚ science‚ and economics elsewhere: When looking at the preindustrial world‚ many would not see an inherent advantage for Europe. China arguably had the world’s most impressive technology‚ and India and the Islamic world had many noteworthy accomplishments

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    there are many factors such as the repressive Tsarist system‚ the growth of opposition from the time of Alexander II and the defeat in the war with Japan to consider. These events can be separated into short and long term effects on the revolution. Bloody Sunday and defeat to Japan would be short term effects whereas the Tsarist system of rule and the increasing opposition the Tsar would be long term. Perhaps the revolution all started with the Tsarist system of rule. Sergei Witte and Konstantin

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    invincibility of it. Indeed‚ so certain was he that Russia’s success lay in following a strict system of autocracy‚ that he dismissed any attempts at democratic reform as “senseless dreams.” However‚ as early as the 1890’s‚ the shortcomings of the Tsarist regime were becoming clear. For instance‚ the system of bureaucracy in place did little to alleviate the famine of the 1890s—so bad was the situation that committees were formed by the public to provide aid to starving Russians. Nicholas himself

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