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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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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