https://padlet.com/vandanpillai/r8t7v15tlneu2w8q Do you think that the socialist measures undertaken by the Bolshevik government help to bring about a better life for their people? Support your answers with examples from the text en-us 2020-10-15 10:14:55 UTC 2020-10-15 16:07:42 UTC hello@padlet.com vandanpillai https://padlet.com/vandanpillai/r8t7v15tlneu2w8q/wish/832669770 The land was declared social property and peasants were allowed to seize the land of the nobility. In cities, Bolsheviks enforced the partition of large houses according to family requirements. They banned the use of the old titles of the aristocracy. To assert the change, new uniforms were designed for the army and officials. Trade unions were kept under party control. The secret police (called the Cheka first, and later OGPU and NKVD) punished those who criticised the Bolsheviks. Many young writers and artists rallied to the Party because it stood for socialism and for change.]]> 2020-10-15 15:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vandanpillai/r8t7v15tlneu2w8q/wish/832669770 vandanpillai https://padlet.com/vandanpillai/r8t7v15tlneu2w8q/wish/832694011 A member of a landowning family wrote to a relative about what happened at the estate:‘The “coup” happened quite painlessly, quietly and peacefully. ...The first days were unbearable... Mikhail Mikhailovich [the estate owner] was calm...The girls also...I must say the chairman behaves correctly and even politely. We have left two cows and two horses. The servants tell them all the time not to bother us. “Let them live. We vouch for their safety and property. We want them treated as humanely as possible....”
...There are rumours that several villages are trying to evict the committees and return the estate to Mikhail Mikhailovich. I don’t know if this will happen, or if it’s good for us. But we rejoice that there is a conscience in our people...'
From: Serge Schmemann, Echoes of a Native Land. Two Centuries of a Russian Village (1997).]]> 2020-10-15 15:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/vandanpillai/r8t7v15tlneu2w8q/wish/832694011 vandanpillai https://padlet.com/vandanpillai/r8t7v15tlneu2w8q/wish/832743307 The owners of private property revolted against the Bolsheviks because their land was ceased. The change brought a better life for the poor and middle class in Russia but the 'Rich", did not like it as it meant losing their property.]]> 2020-10-15 15:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/vandanpillai/r8t7v15tlneu2w8q/wish/832743307