HIST 1F95 Lecture Notes - Nikolai Bukharin, The Great Terror, Shakhty
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Outline: from gori to the kremlin, planning utopia, the great terror. Mountainous region- the people were not trusting, quick to seek revenge. His father was an abusive alcoholic, but his mother was strong-willed and devout. She thought her son should become a priest (one of the few ways to advance oneself). However, he hated the strictness of the priesthood. He became interested in bolsheviks and started to associate with them. Robbed a bank in order to get money for the bolshevik party. Changed his name to the soviet-sounding joseph stalin by 1920- stalin from the word steel to become a man of steel . 1923 in the summer, stalin and two other political men were having a conversation where stalin spoke of revenge and his love of it. 1912, lenin asked stalin to write a book about nationalism. Bonaparte, stalin was not born in the country he grew to rule. Bolsheviks, stalin didn"t support lenin"s idea to seize power.
