HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 33 Outline of Last Lecture I Civil war and nep II The leadership struggle Outline 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 country 1 Problem is no models of Marxism to follow 2 Planned economy Command economy B The first five year plan 1928 1 Plan for economic development for the next five years 2 Production for every material plan for allocation how everything would be organized i Quota s placed on everything 3 Not a lot of wealth in the country could not depend on citizens to pay money for rebuilding economy could not depend on foreign countries because of isolation i Leaders feel under siege 4 Heavy industrialization focus on steel and iron explosive rates of growth 5 Encourage people to accept plan through terror C Collectivizing agriculture 1 Stalin declares war on the peasantry 2 Do away with all private farms and combine them all into large collective farms where the peasants kulaks become workers on the farms i 3 6 million people starved to death ii Many peasants exiled to Siberia or sent to work camps II Stalin s dictatorship the price paid A Stalin s police state 1 1936 1939 4 5 million people arrested by police state and at least half a million executed 2 Society of whisperers no one is safe from the police state i Stalin even purges the Bolsheviks B Achievements of Stalin These 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 society i 5 of all manufacturing in the world to 18 in ten years 2 Becomes mostly urban i Schools develop with great science and math 3 It was the industrial society that allowed Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in WWII
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