HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Operations Management
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Stalin served time in prison for underground activities. Provisional govt is weak, lenin seized power after october rev (stalin actually played a small role) Politburo headed by lenin and stalin and trotsky are members. Stalin in charge of policing the people. Stalin uses this to outmaneuver his enemies. His last will and testament= don"t let stalin take over . Politburo never publishes this; he also denounces trotsky in his last will and testament. Trotsky wants world revolution, stalin wants to focus on russia first. Nep (new economic policy)- temp measure to be somewhat capitalist, Trotsky wants no dissent from party line when stalin takes lead of certain initiatives. A few years later, stalin takes the lead and trotsky dissents. He is expelled from russia; writes negative books about stalin. Nep (new economic plan) isn"t working, because of peasants" reluctance to sell their products unless they buy consumer goods with the money (the govt doesn"t want to produce them)
