HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 33 Outline of Last Lecture I. Civil war and nepII. The leadership struggleOutline of Current Lecture I. Building Socialism in one country A. The socialist leaders had thought that taking control (1917-18) would lead to revolts throughout countries in Europe, but when it didn’t, they had to build a socialist state in one country1. Problem is: no models of Marxism to follow2. Planned economy (Command economy)B. The first five year plan (1928)1. Plan for economic development for the next five years2. Production for every material, plan for allocation, how everything would be organizedi. Quota’s placed on everything3. Not a lot of wealth in the country, could not depend on citizens to pay moneyfor rebuilding economy; could not depend on foreign countries because of isolationi. Leaders feel under siege4. Heavy industrialization: focus on steel and iron (explosive rates of growth)5. Encourage people to accept plan through terrorC. Collectivizing agriculture1. Stalin declares war on the peasantry2. Do away with all private farms and combine them all into large collective farms where the peasants (kulaks) become workers on the farmsi. 3-6 million people starved to deathii. Many peasants exiled to Siberia or sent to work campsII. Stalin’s dictatorship: the price paidA. Stalin’s police state1. 1936-1939, 4-5 million people arrested by police state and at least half a million executed2. Society of whisperers: no one is safe from the police statei. Stalin even purges the Bolsheviks B. Achievements of StalinThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.1. Goes from agricultural to industrial societyi. 5% of all manufacturing in the world to 18% in ten years2. Becomes mostly urbani. Schools develop with great science and math3. It was the industrial society that allowed Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in
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