POLB92H3 Lecture Notes - Mixed Economy
25 Feb 2014
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What are some similarities between the russian and french. Revolution: centered on the economic state of the two states. Food shortages, conditions that are worsened, tax burdens, etc. Both countries were drained of resources from wars and funding wars: they both had very charismatic leaders of the revolution. Both previous leaders were incompetent and made the population strongly dislike them. The two leaders were married to foreign women, which could be considered the enemy. The two leaders economically destroyed their country: russia had a communist revolution, but the french had a bourgeois revolution, which is the main difference, what was the new economic policy (nep), softened the economy. At first there was a lot of pressure to steal food from farmers. Fewer grains were stolen and more were traded with the introduction of the nep. It was a pragmatic decision to save the economy after the civil war.
