HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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Czar Nicholas’s involvement in World War I
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Vladmir Lenin’s New Economic Policy
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Joseph Stalin’s collectivization
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Nikita Khrushchev’s removal from power
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Detailed explanation-1: -The result of Stalin’s policies was the Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932–33-a man-made demographic catastrophe unprecedented in peacetime. Of the estimated five million people who died in the Soviet Union, almost four million were Ukrainians.
Detailed explanation-2: -Forced collectivization helped achieve Stalin’s goal of rapid industrialization but it also contributed to a catastrophic famine in 1932–1933.
Detailed explanation-3: -The im-possibly high quotas meant grain that would be normally be eaten by farmers was confiscated and sent to other parts of the Soviet Union or sold abroad. As a result, millions, mostly rural Ukrainians, went hungry.
Detailed explanation-4: -Output fell, but the government, nevertheless, extracted the large amounts of agricultural products it needed to acquire the capital for industrial investment. This caused a major famine in the countryside (1932–33) and the deaths of millions of peasants.