Russia

Russia Part A To what extent do the sources agree that Russian government policy on agriculture consistently failed and that peasants resisted under both tsarist and communist rule. Throughout Russian history whether it was under tsarist or communist rule the problems they faced were both similar (e.g. war, famine or agriculture). Most of the sources agree that the Russian government polices on agriculture consistently failed and each gives its own explanation for this failure; “stupid decisions”, “ill-conceived strategies” or “adverse weather”. The sources may criticise the “stupid decisions” but understand that the problem of agriculture was too big of a problem for one man to handle, whether this be the tsars or the dictatorships under communism. However as the sources agree on constant failures of the reforms, they are quite divided on the resistance of the peasants. Many of the sources fail to refer to the resistance and those that do refer to it see it more of resentment rather then a resistance. Many of the sources agree that the agricultural reforms made between 1856 and 1964 consistently failed whether this be the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, Stolypin’s land reforms in 1907, Stalin’s collective farms or Khrushchev’s virgin lands. However source, peasants, agriculture, sources, reforms, government, stalin, policy, polices, land, failures, virgin, suggests, success, resistance, however, failure, agricultural, whether, towards, stolypin’s, shows, russian, peasantry, out, context, village, under, stolypin, stalin’s, serf, province, problem, owners, meant