POLI 329 Lecture : POLI 329 Jan. 18.docx
14 Apr 2012
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Is there fundamental continuity or discontinuity between leninism and. 1) the rise of stalin: a) the kronstadt rebellion, saying that it was not what they had signed up for, they wanted free workers, a true soviet state. These were the very workers who had supported the. Bolsheviks, but they decided to brutally suppress the workers. Prototype of later events, such as liquidation of kulaks: b) 10th party congress, march 1921. Solidification of one party state, informal ban on factions within the party itself. Nep essentially introduced a mixed economic system, a retreat. Introduction of the new economic policy (nep) from the war communism of the civil war era, under the nep there was private agriculture (tax in kind on production) Private small businesses as well as private trade. Along with this, the flourishing of some freedoms in the cultural realm, not political pluralism, but cultural pluralism and era of cultural blossoming.
