Essays Tagged: "peasantry"

Mao Tse--Tung

9 he was able to take over Cuba with Che Guevara. Mao recognized the revolutionary potential of the peasantry when Marx and Lenin had seen in their urban doctrine the working class as the leading revo ... "Report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan" expressed his view of the revolutionary potential of the peasantry--although this view was not yet phrased in a proper Marxian form. The soundness of Mao's s ...

(10 pages) 37 0 4.7 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Colonialism 2

egration, abuse of power and land and to a minor decrease in feudalism. It also led to a shift from peasantry to proletariats. Elvia lived in a semi-feudalistic system in Honduras with highly unequal ...

(5 pages) 28 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Third world concept

its place. The phrase originally derives from France ('Tiers Monde') in the 1950's to describe the peasantry (the 'Third Estate') in pre-Revolutionary 1789 France. By the end of the 1960's however th ...

(4 pages) 26 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Nazi Aesthetics

        What makes this painting a typical work of Nazi art is it’s glorification of peasantry. Not only is it mere peasantry it glorifies, but German peasantry. Now, while on the sur ... azis stood for, one of them being the aforementioned Blood and Soil, another being the portrayal of peasantry as a source of strength and purity. The reason peasantry was held in such high regard by ...

(5 pages) 1788 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Individual Desires and Beliefs

racter Hovstad is one who demonstrates this action.Hovstad is a ?radical? who is a ?graduate of the peasantry.? Perhaps because of his background, he ?hates authority? and wants to ?blow that smug cab ...

(7 pages) 23 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Collectivisation and Industrialisation in Stalinist Russia

et society up to 1914. Due to collectivisation and industrialisation, both the proletariats and the peasantry did receive benefits. Furthermore, collectivisation and industrialisation also increased t ... viet population had diminished.Due to collectivisation and industrialisation, education amongst the peasantry and proletariats improved. According to Nove, Stalin believed that in order to build a mod ...

(4 pages) 23 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The country setting in Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"

ne's soul as people in the city; for example, Tolstoy describes the positive characteristics of the peasantry, "the strength, gentleness, and fairness of these men" (257). The peasantry has to dedicat ... ntribute to a good and satisfying life, supporting those characteristics.For the urban society, the peasantry is a folk which can be observed in conversations and be explained in general conclusions. ...

(2 pages) 3565 0 0.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

To what extent was Stalin's collectivization and industrialization successful for Russian society following World War I?

et society up to 1914. Due to collectivization and industrialization, both the proletariats and the peasantry did receive benefits. Furthermore, collectivization and industrialization also increased t ... viet population had diminished.Due to collectivization and industrialization, education amongst the peasantry and proletariats improved. According to Nove, Stalin believed that in order to build a mod ...

(4 pages) 14 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

To what extent did collectivization and industrialization change Soviet society by the end of the 1930's?

returning back to the methods of War Communism and was “a kind of coup d’etat against the peasantry,” - Cohen. The resources extracted from the peasantry instead of being directed to co ... hozy did not improve productivity, collectivization succeeded in extracting more resources from the peasantry. This was highlighted in 1932-33 famine as millions died as grain harvests declined but pr ...

(3 pages) 9 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Explain how Russia and the Soviet Union modernised from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until 1941.

towns, who were providing munitions for the socialist war effort hence grain requisitioning of the peasantry occurred. In the urban towns, The Supreme Council of the National Economy (Vesenkha) was i ... nite’ strategy from the right was based on maintaining the smychka or the alliance between the peasantry and the proletariat. Bukharin believed that the peasantry should be allowed to proper flou ...

(2 pages) 14 1 3.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

What Had the Bolsheviks achieved by 1914?

d Lenin to believe that the revolution would need to be undertaken by the proletariat allied to the peasantry who, as the 1905 revolution had shown him were a powerful political force if organised. Th ...

(6 pages) 12 0 5.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Death's Arbitrary Empire -- McManners

ng force behind the movement could be pointed at the period of oppression rained down on the French peasantry by the nobility in the 17th and 18th centuries.In a time period dominated by French excess ...

(4 pages) 3528 0 0.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

Analyse the socio-economic, political, religious and cultural consequences of the Black Death

acerbating old problems, while founding new ones which led to the end of feudalism, the rise of the peasantry and the end of the Middle Ages. In essence, one tiny insect, a flea, toppled feudalism and ... ued the latter half of the Middle Ages, ultimately leading to the end of feudalism, the rise of the peasantry and the end of the Middle Ages.BIBLIOGRAPHYAberth, John. From the Brink of the Apocalypse: ...

(11 pages) 58 0 4.5 Aug/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Criticism of the Chinese Intellectuals

haps Liang Chongjin addressed that China's biggest problem is of the environmental ignorance of the peasantry was quite a misperception on his behalf. The peasants may not be experts on all aspects of ... oralists have gain through herding proves my criticism of the common view intellectuals have of the peasantry being environmentally ignorance. Though the intellectual have underestimated and mistook t ...

(7 pages) 24 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology