Great Depression in the United States government dealt with economic downturns, such as the use of stimulus packages, Keynesian economics, and Social Security. It also shaped modern American literature, resulting in famous novels such as John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men". Examining the causes of the Great Depression raises multiple issues: what factors set off the first downturn in 1929; what structural weaknesses and specific events turned it into a major depression; how the downturn spread from country to country; and why the economic recovery was so prolonged. Many banks began to fail in October 1930 when farmers defaulted on loans.
A Decayed Family 1890 Volume 6 came out in the alternative version, "A Decayed Family" included. A Decayed Family A Decayed Family () is an unfinished novel by Nikolai Leskov, subtitled "The Family Chronicles of Princes Protazanov" (Семейная хроника князей Протозановых). Parts one and two of it were first published in the 1874 Nos. 7,8 and 10 of "The Russian Messenger" as part of a trilogy which also included "Old Years in Plodomasovo" (1869) and "The Cathedral Clergy" (1872). The publication of the novel has led to Leskov's severing all ties with "The Russian Messenger". The main issue was the magazine's editor-in-chief Mikhail