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    historians

    There's a good thread on the Extention forum about this: http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=39269&page=1&pp=15 Also try: http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/%7ebsilva/ib/histo.html stemmo
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    russia, essay, please help

    Jess if you want more detail go to http://vcehistory.info Then have a look under Russian Revolution, at the Political Causes, Social Causes and Economic Causes links. Good luck :) stemmo
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    russia, essay, please help

    Political: * Tsar took charge of army in 1915 * Tsarina left in control of domestic govt * Influence of Rasputin * Continual sacking of ministers * Failure to grant effective power to the Duma Economic * Resources diverted to the war effort * Inflation 1916 * Transportation...
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    Which British Ruler..

    The ruler is King George III, the text is a yuppified modern reworking of the grievances of the Declaration of Independence (1776). Find a copy on the Web and compare. :) stemmo
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    Cold War Culture???

    Hi meercat, You should be focussing on how Cold War ideology, political and economic values were reflected in popular and artistic culture: literature, TV, movies, music, fashion, art and so forth. Normally this would involve comparing both Soviet and American propaganda, as well as pop...
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    Revision - the failure of the NEP (Russia/Sovet Union)

    Whether the NEP 'failed' or not depends on your interpretation, or that of the historian(s) you are reading. As a political maneuvre it probably was a failure because it meant that Lenin had to revert to a period of 'mixed capitalism', even though he had argued that the socialist revolution...
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    Revision - the failure of the NEP (Russia/Sovet Union)

    It 'failed' mainly because of something called the 'scissors crisis' that Trotsky was concerned about. I can't remember exactly wha it was, but it went something like food/grain prices going down, and industrial/manufactured prices going up (kind of like a pair of scissors, hence the name). Also...
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    Quoting in Essays..

    For quotes on Russia/Trotsky/Lenin, go to: http://vcehistory.info/russia/index.html ...and specifically these documents: http://vcehistory.info/russia/pdf/hisquotes1.pdf http://vcehistory.info/russia/pdf/hisquotes2.pdf
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