In what respect were the Russian peasants different from European peasants ?
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Question 1. Imagine that you are a striking worker in 1905, who is being tried in court for your act of rebellion. Draft the speech you would make in your defence. Act out your speech for your class.
Answer Your honour and respected citizens. I have not committed any crime. although I am being tried for inciting rebellion. You know how the price of bread has gone up My wages accordingly should have been increased so that my family does not starve. Now-a-days we only eat one meal in a day, as there is no money to buy more food. So what is wrong if I demand increase in wages ?
I am forced to work 12 hours a day, which is inhuman. I have demanded an eight hour working day, which is quite reasonable. Have I committed a crime in that?
Now I leave it in your hand to decide whether I am a criminal or not.
Question 2. Write the headline and a short news item about the uprising of 24th October, 1917 for each of the following newspapers
A Conservative paper in France
A Radical newspaper in Britain
A Bolshevik newspaper in Russia
Answer Do it yourself. However, keep in mind that the conservative French newspaper should be condemning the revolution and predicting its failure, the radical newspaper in Britain should be supporting the revolution and the Bolshevik newspaper should be tomtoming the success of the revolution.
Question 3. Imagine that you are a middle level wheat farmer in Russia after collectivisation. You have decided to write a letter to Stalin explaining your objections to collectivisation. What would you write about the conditions of your life? What do you think would be Stalin’s response to such a farmer?
Answer Do it yourself. However, you should include the following points in the wheat farmer’s letter
He should tell that he has only limited amount of crops from his land, which is just enough for fulfilling the needs of his family.
He should request that his land holding should be exempted from collectivisation, otherwise he will have nothing to live on.
In Stalin’s reply, Stalin should enumerate the benefits of collectivisation also refuse gently to exempt him.
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Question 1. What were the social economic and political conditions in Russia before 1905?
Answer At the beginning of the 20th century. the vast majority of Russia’s people were agriculturists. About 85 per cent of the Russian empire’s population earned their living from agriculture.
Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution
Cultivators produced for the market as well as for their own needs and Russia was a major exporter of grain.
Industry was found in pockets. Prominent industrial areas were St Petersburg and Moscow.
Large factories existed alongside craft workshops.
Many factories were set up in the 1890s when Russia’s railway network was extended and foreign investment in industry increased.
Most industries .were the private property of industrialists. The government supervises large factories to ensure minimum wages and limited hours of work.
Workers were divided into social groups on the basis of skill. Division was also visible in dress and manners also.
Some workers formed associations to help members in times of unemployment or financial hardship.
Despite divisions, workers united themselves to strike, work when they disagreed with employers about dismissals or work conditions,
Like workers, peasants too were divided. They also had no respect for the nobility,
Russian peasants wanted the land of the nobles to be given to them.
They pooled their land together periodically and their commune divided it according to the needs of individual families.
this is my answer!!!!
Answer Your honour and respected citizens. I have not committed any crime. although I am being tried for inciting rebellion. You know how the price of bread has gone up My wages accordingly should have been increased so that my family does not starve. Now-a-days we only eat one meal in a day, as there is no money to buy more food. So what is wrong if I demand increase in wages ?
I am forced to work 12 hours a day, which is inhuman. I have demanded an eight hour working day, which is quite reasonable. Have I committed a crime in that?
Now I leave it in your hand to decide whether I am a criminal or not.
Question 2. Write the headline and a short news item about the uprising of 24th October, 1917 for each of the following newspapers
A Conservative paper in France
A Radical newspaper in Britain
A Bolshevik newspaper in Russia
Answer Do it yourself. However, keep in mind that the conservative French newspaper should be condemning the revolution and predicting its failure, the radical newspaper in Britain should be supporting the revolution and the Bolshevik newspaper should be tomtoming the success of the revolution.
Question 3. Imagine that you are a middle level wheat farmer in Russia after collectivisation. You have decided to write a letter to Stalin explaining your objections to collectivisation. What would you write about the conditions of your life? What do you think would be Stalin’s response to such a farmer?
Answer Do it yourself. However, you should include the following points in the wheat farmer’s letter
He should tell that he has only limited amount of crops from his land, which is just enough for fulfilling the needs of his family.
He should request that his land holding should be exempted from collectivisation, otherwise he will have nothing to live on.
In Stalin’s reply, Stalin should enumerate the benefits of collectivisation also refuse gently to exempt him.
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Question 1. What were the social economic and political conditions in Russia before 1905?
Answer At the beginning of the 20th century. the vast majority of Russia’s people were agriculturists. About 85 per cent of the Russian empire’s population earned their living from agriculture.
Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution
Cultivators produced for the market as well as for their own needs and Russia was a major exporter of grain.
Industry was found in pockets. Prominent industrial areas were St Petersburg and Moscow.
Large factories existed alongside craft workshops.
Many factories were set up in the 1890s when Russia’s railway network was extended and foreign investment in industry increased.
Most industries .were the private property of industrialists. The government supervises large factories to ensure minimum wages and limited hours of work.
Workers were divided into social groups on the basis of skill. Division was also visible in dress and manners also.
Some workers formed associations to help members in times of unemployment or financial hardship.
Despite divisions, workers united themselves to strike, work when they disagreed with employers about dismissals or work conditions,
Like workers, peasants too were divided. They also had no respect for the nobility,
Russian peasants wanted the land of the nobles to be given to them.
They pooled their land together periodically and their commune divided it according to the needs of individual families.
this is my answer!!!!
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