Write a few lines to show what you know about:
►kulaks.
►the Duma.
►women workers between 1900 and 1930.
►the Liberals.
►Stalin's collectivisation programme.
Answers
►Kulaks
The well to do peasants in Russia were known as Kulaks. During the collectivisation programme started by Stalin , the lands and Holdings of the Kulaks were seized. Their Cattle and grains were forcibly taken away by the government.
► The Duma
The Duma is the name of the Russian parliament. After the brief revolution of 1905 the Czar constituted the Duma for consultative purposes. It did not have any real legislative powers and the Czar dissolved it according to his wishes.
► Women worker between 1900 and 1930
After industrialisation expanded in Russia women were employed in large numbers in most of the factories. In 1914 women composed 31% of the labour force in Russia. They were not paid equally and the working conditions were poor. Women play their active role in the revolution of 1917. Some of them staged demonstration and led marches from the front. Under soviet rule role women equally participated in economic progress and development.
► The liberals
They believed in the basic rights of every individual. The liberals wanted to stab you selected and parliamentary government with an independent judiciary. They stood against the despotic rule of the monarch and nobles. They do not support Universal adult franchise.
► Stalin's collectivisation programme
Stalin revised the economic policy of collectivisation by which small land Holdings were made into large farms. These farms would be collectively owned by the peasants and profits would be shared among all. A large number of peasants opposed this move by the government.