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The New Soviet Man and Woman from the Bolshevik Revolution

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the efforts of the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks promoted two ideals which appealed to the disgruntled masses, namely "Peace, Bread and Land" for the peasant class and "All power to the  Soviets" for the working class. Once in power, the Bolsheviks, later the Communists, promoted through the use of artists, writers and propaganda the characteristics of the new Soviet man and  woman which included efficiency, hard-work, responsibility and commitment to the party, fitness, toughness, discipline and self-education. For centuries preceding the 1917 Russian  Revolution, the predominantly agricultural country depended on the large peasant class for the working of the land. When the peasants were emancipated in 1861, they were not given enough of  the land on which they had worked and became increasingly poor and restless for the next fifty years. By the early 1900s, the peasant numbers had increased to the point  where they were not only desperate due to famine and epidemics because of their numbers, their little resources did not provide them with enough finances to be able to handle  the heavy taxes imposed by the tsarist system and became increasingly hostile (Thompson, 1996). In addition to the disgruntled peasant class, the industrial work force also increased during the industrial  revolution which swept through Europe. However, as argued by the Bolsheviks in 1917, most of the investments for the industry came from Western Europe and the system of taxation and  many of the import expenses were placed on the industrial workers (Thompson, 1996). The increasing poverty of the peasant class and industrial workers led to a high degree of discontentment  within Russia. As a result the working classes began to feel a great solidarity in their cause and revolutionary ideals began, once again, to occur. Smaller revolutions had taken place