HIS222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Leninism, The Communist Manifesto, Nuremberg Laws
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This was not the communism in the new soviet union under lenin- stalin 1917- thru wwii centralized state power- and collectivization cults of personality and force- totalitarian as well. Leninism- built around a one party totalitarian party. Stalinism: joseph stalin takes over in 1922- thru propaganda, compulsory collectivism in agriculture and then industrialization we see mass murder, displacement. Both concentrate on the idea of communism taking hold eventually in one country, but there will never be a then- so the failure of communism is both theoretical and practical. 400,000 jews in germany, 0 death camps. Hitler doesn"t originally kill, he just exiles them, telling them to leave their stuff. 1924: mein kampf - by defending myself against the jew, i am doing the work of the lord . 1935: nuremberg laws- jews are no longer citizens- subjects, prohibits marriage and sex between jews and german blood, jewish is defined as 3 full grandparents.
