Answer:
b. Financial and political leaders enjoyed the benefits of imperialsim too much to cease this activity.
Explanation:
Let´s look at recent history. After the end of WWII, Britain and France strove for regaining control of their colonial posessions in Africa and Asia. But their might and influence was severly undermined by the war. Britain gave independence to its colonies in the 1950s and 1960s, and the French were forced to recognize Algerian independence after a long and bloody war, and they were soundly defeated by the Vietnamese Communists in 1954 and forced to recognize North Vietnam as an independent country.
One huge problem in Russian Empire was peasant question: as a result of significant expansion of the borders a small number of people owned large territories. Even after abolition of serfdom peasants didn’t had enough land to feed themselves. But how can you redistribute land, take it away from the strong and give to the weak when land owners would clearly oppose you? Same problem was encountered many times along the history. For example, in Roman Republic after their expansion during Punic wars (optimates vs populares) - that resulted in Jules Ceasar overthrowing the Senate.
So, royal powers couldn’t solve that problem. During crisis caused by WWI, they were removed from power (that coup itself is quite complex event, there were several acting forces). Liberals who came into power after february revolution also were unable to solve peasant question and proved themselves incompetent. Exactly that 1917 year during summer numbers of Bolshevik Party significantly increased. They tried to perform coup in july (unsuccessfull) and achieved their goal in october.
Then after civil war Bolsheviks finally solved peasant problem through collectivisation with big blood and famine.
I wish that Nicholas II was more competent ruler and could prevent all these events in advance.
The Harlem Renaissance began somewhere in 1920. It was an artistic/musical movement of the US. This was when Jazz and Blues really began to become popular. This was important because it helped to calm down racism quite a bit. Two people who are widely known during the Harlem renaissance were Louis Armstrong and Aaron Douglas.
THE art of this era depicted the different styles.
