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    and Southeast Asia with simple but comprehensive explanation. His book is insightful and easy to follow, starts from all countries’ cultural history background to other factors, such as natural resources, geography, institution, education, and industrialisation development. However, there are some critics on the book due to the less emphasizing on equality, inclusiveness, and transition of agriculture sector development. The countries’ histories lead to differences in each country’s political and economic

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    Uttarakhand Disaster

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    Uttarakhand's path to devastation a natural calamity or a result of industrialisation? (The hill state of Uttarakhand…) India's go-to person for tourism, the man who branded Kerala as "God's own country", and turned the southern state into one of the busiest tourist destinations in the country, simply cannot come to terms with the devastation in Uttarakhand. Amitabh Kant, who is credited with pioneering tourism marketing in India, believes the tragedy is because of a significant error of judgement

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    Why Was Collectivisation

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    fueled industrialism, turning Russia into a global superpower once more; but most tragically, could be named the greatest agricultural and social disaster ever experienced in Russia. However others may argue that collectivisation was extraneous: industrialisation was the main cause of Russia’s rising power; production did not increase; and it was the Great Purges and shows trials that

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    The Industrial Revolution in Russia Russia, which began its industrial revolution at least a half century behind most of the West European countries, had to meet a number of special challenges. Russia moved to industrialisation in stages. An uncertain experimental phase – which Russia had already experienced to an extent before 1870 – included larger reforms that helped free up economic change. This preliminary period was followed by more rapid growth in a society

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    independence’. He believed the Soviet Union was ‘fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries, and the need to industrialise was a matter of death or struggle. He suggested citizens in Russia build a ‘Bolshevik tempo’ to make means of industrialisation and socialism successful. Stalin’s main aim was for industrial production to expand in his initial five year plan from 1929 to 1934. Stalin was able to institute high production figures for factories and there was a 50% rise in manufacturing

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    Steven Wright had once said, "The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. [...]" The British empire grew so extensive that there was always at least one part of its territory that was in daylight. How did the British manage to colonize quarter of the world? They owe their thanks to the Industrial Revolution which is a new era of development and progress that evolved after the Agricultural Revolution in the late 1700s. New machines and methods were invented; new ideas were

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    Ireland This essay will discuss how the opening up of the economy and the shift in ideologies was essential to the survival of the nation. Moving on it will discuss the International Development Authority (IDA) and its role it had in promoting industrialisation in the west. It will give an explanation as to why the

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    truly brings doom. He acclaims “things which [he had] seen [he could] see no more”, directly protesting against the growing “unnatural” world of industrialisation and the mark it will leave on the world. His address of nature progress from one that is sublime to then one overpowered by the awakening of thoughts of darkness, conceived by industrialisation growing upon his age. In contrast Coleridge follows a similar attachment to nature as he objects the growingly glorified industrial era around him

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    migration was due to industrialisation and employment and living standards, and thus many migrants traveled to America with the hope of a better life. By saying that the reasons for the mass migration are primarily due to industrialisation and employment and living standards, it is important to emphasize that the migrants’ destination of America was better than remaining in their origin country. With all of this considered, this essay will examine the roles of industrialisation and employment and living

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    by Carl Friedrich, the Soviet Union under Stalinism reflected a totalitarian state through the use of a centralised economy, control of party, ideology, media, armed forces and terror. Firstly, the establishment of a command economy through industrialisation and collectivisation meant that Stalin and the Communist Party were able to completely manipulate the direction of the economy. Under the control of the State Planning Authority (Gosplan), a series of ‘5-year

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