The Soviet Experiment: Stalin

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The Soviet Experiment Stalins Revolution

• HST 112
• Lecture 15 (3/15/04)
• Ethan Pollock

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Prologue Alternative Modernities

• EUROPE AFTER 1919
• I. Fascism and Nazism
• II. Communism
• III. Challenges to Liberal Democracy

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The Soviet Experiment

• I. LENIN Civil War, War Communism and the New
  Economic Policy (NEP)
• II. Stalins Rise to Power
• III. The Great Break Collectivization and
  Industrialization
• IV. The Cultural Front
• V. The Purges

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I. Lenin (ruled 1917-1924)

• Timeline
• 1917-1921 Civil War
• 1924 Death of Lenin
• 1921-1927 NEP
• 1928-1932 The Great Break
• 1932-1933 Famine
• 1936-1938 Great Purges

• A. Civil War and War Communism
• B. New Economic Policy (NEP)
• C. Repression
• D. Lenins Death

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II. Stalins Rise to Power

• Timeline
• 1917-1921 Civil War
• 1924 Death of Lenin
• 1921-1927 NEP
• 1928-1932 The Great Break
• 1932-1933 Famine
• 1936-1938 Great Purges

• A. General Secretary The Party Bureaucracy
• B. Trotsky and the Left Opposition
• C. Bukharin and the Right Opposition

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III. The Great Break

• Timeline
• 1917-1921 Civil War
• 1924 Death of Lenin
• 1921-1927 NEP
• 1928-1932 The Great Break
• 1932-1933 Famine
• 1936-1938 Great Purges

• A. Collectivization and the Elimination of
  Kulaks as a class
• B. Industrialization and the Five-Year Plans
• C. Modernization and the Planned Economy

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IV. The Cultural Front

• Timeline
• 1917-1921 Civil War
• 1924 Death of Lenin
• 1922-1927 NEP
• 1928-1932 The Great Break
• 1932-1933 Famine
• 1936-1938 Great Purges

• A. Cultural Revolution
• B. Upward Mobility
• C. Cult of Personality
• D. Propaganda

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V. The Purges

• Timeline
• 1917-1921 Civil War
• 1924 Death of Lenin
• 1921-1927 NEP
• 1928-1932 The Great Break
• 1932-1933 Famine
• 1936-1938 Great Purges

• A. Kirov Assassination
• B. Show Trials
• C. The GULAG
• D. Terror and the Soviet System