POL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nikita Khrushchev, Great Purge, Totalitarianism

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 307
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

- interfered in social lives to a great extent. Lenin was internationalists, thought it was necessary to create the type of. Lenin said mistake to try to do all at one. New economic policy program: returned smaller farms and companies to. Started to see that just as they had won civil war, started to see that their effort o try to nationalize everything was causing another resurgence of opposition. Kept government control over heavy, finance, transportation industry in public ownership. When setting up a new government, outlawed all parties except for communist party. Federation, russia (dominant) with some other states internally (georgie, ukraine) Goal under lenin was to try to have an influence in all areas around them to spread. Marxism world he thought he needed to exist. Joseph stalin- won a power struggle and maintained control of ussr. Stalin is party name, comes into power 1876-1953. Communist party central committee was in charge of government.