Read the text given below and answer the following questions. The period of the early Planned Economy was linked to the disasters of the

collectivisation of agriculture. By 1927- 1928, the towns in Soviet Russia were

facing an acute problem of grain supplies. The government fixed prices at

which grain must be sold, but the peasants refused to sell their grain to

government buyers at these prices. In 1928, Party members toured the grain-

producing areas, supervising enforced grain collections, and raiding ‘kulaks’

the name for well-to-do peasants. As shortages continued, the decision was

taken to collectivise farms. It was argued that grain shortages were partly due

to the small size of holdings. After 1917, land had been given over to

peasants. These small-sized peasant farms could not be modernised. To

develop modern farms, and run them along industrial lines with machinery, it

was necessary to eliminate kulaks, take away land from peasants, and

establish state-controlled large farms

1) Who were ‘kulaks’ ?

2) Point out one reason for grain shortages.

3) What was the decision taken to solve the problem of grain shortages?

4) What was necessary to develop modern farms?​

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Question 18 multiple choice worth 3 points) (american money lo 4 hc) suppose the federal reserve raises interest rates. which of the following predicts the most likely results? the money supply will decrease, meaning that banks will give fewer loans and prices for goods and services will fall. the money supply will decrease, meaning that more people will buy goods and services and prices will rise, the money supply will increase, meaning that banks will give more loans and more businesses can open and hire workers. the money supply will increase, meaning that prices will rise and businesses will not hire many workers. i will mark the brainliest

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?