Media‚ Culture & Society http://mcs.sagepub.com Cultural industries in the Digital Age: some provisional conclusions Enrique Bustamante Media Culture Society 2004; 26; 803 DOI: 10.1177/0163443704047027 The online version of this article can be found at: http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/6/803 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Media‚ Culture & Society can be found at: Email Alerts: http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:
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Plan for Question: To what extent is it true to say that the Provisional Government faced an impossible task? Threat of Political Opposition - Soviets had more power than any other ‘body’; this was because they were looked upon as the legitimate authority in the land. - They shared a dual authority with the Soviets. The All-Russia Soviet claimed the right to issue laws. From Feb to Oct 1917‚ major areas of policy to be agreed upon by both. The Petrograd Soviet was the closest and also the strongest
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2 Joe Pendlebury How far was the Provisional Government responsible for its own downfall? There are many factors which were responsible for the Provisional government’s downfall. Some are more important than others because they had more impact on the downfall. The War‚ the distribution of land and the people in the provisional government all contributed to the downfall of the provisional government. They each had different amounts of impact. The Provisional Government had a programme initially
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Historians may believe the Provisional Government was doomed because of a major problem with the provisional government which was the Dual Authority. The Provisional Government was made up of members of the old Duma that had refused to disband at the Tsars command. This meant that they were basically the same men that the Tsar had appointed before the revolution‚ so nothing had changed in that regard. Consequently‚ they had no goodwill from the public backing them up‚ so they would be judged purely
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How far was the Provisional Government’s continued involvement in the First World War responsible for its collapse in October/November 1917? When Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917‚ it was entirely possible that the Provisional Government would survive. The Bolsheviks were only a tiny faction in Russian political life. Most of their leaders were in exile‚ and they had virtually no support among the Russian people. Moreover‚ according to orthodox Marxists (including many Bolsheviks)‚ the
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http://www.cpmt2013.org/CPAdmitCard.aspx?rl=0AC68624EB5280F6F... PRINT CHHATRAPATI SHAHU JI MAHARAJ UNIVERSITY‚ KANPUR COMBINED PRE-MEDICAL TEST (CPMT)–2013 PROVISIONAL ADMIT CARD Candidate’s Name: PREMCHAND CHAUHAN Father’s/Mother’s/Guardian Name: JAWAHIR CHAUHAN Category Code: 20 Date & Timing of Examination 16.06.2013 (Sunday) 09:00 AM TO 12:00 NOON (IST) Examination Centre Code: 2508 Examination Centre Name/Address: VARANASI UDAI PRATAP AUTONOMUS COLLEGE BLOCK-A‚ BHOJUBEER‚ VARANASI Please
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To what extent would you consider the failure of the Provisional Government and the success of the Bolsheviks in October 1917 to be a direct consequence of Russia’s involvement in World War 1? Russia’s involvement in World War One had been a topic of much bitterness within Russia for a number of years and continued to be a source of much resentment. The working class and peasantry had suffered greatly‚ thousands of soldiers had been lost in the war and a general feeling of military humiliation
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The Real Irish Republican Army Introduction In July of 2012‚ a member of the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA) approached a journalist in Derry City with a statement about the future of the organization. The statement outlined the purpose of the organization‚ and called upon the British government to remove all British military presence in “their” country. Additionally‚ the statement indicated a merger between several republican sovereignty organizations by stating that “In recent years
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA)‚ which traces its roots to Catholic Irish nationalism in the early 1900’s‚ was considered by many to be a terrorist organisation because of certain tatics like bombings and assasinations it used to oppose British rule in Ireland. The history of the English presence in Ireland is a long and contentious one‚ dating back to the 12th century when the English first arrived. Acts of rebellion against the English occured frequently‚ but the English continued to consolidate
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Child by Siobhan Dowd (2008) describes the life of Fergus McCann as his brother joins a hunger strike in an attempt to regain political prisoner status. Fergus’ journey takes many unexpected twists and turns as he becomes more involved with the Provisional IRA in the attempt to save Joe’s life and finds a two thousand year old body in the bog. Fergus explores many views on his world through his adventurous relationships with characters that challenge his beliefs regarding the political turmoil and the
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