HIST 4600Y Lecture 1: First Class (Sept. 10)
11 Sep 2015
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Three themes in the course historiography: stalin"s wartime leadership genius or incompetent, the performance of the soviet military, the experience of ordinary people . Three things to remember about the soviet union: the soviet union was a communist state. Run by communist party, whose head was joseph stalin. Didn"t rest on popular support, resting on ideology. Hostility to capitalism of the west, against their ideology. Communism one brand of socialism: the soviet union had a command economy . An alterative of capitalism (free market system) The first five year plan launched by stalin industrializing the soviet. 1928 and on emphasis on heavy industry (military) Soviet union only state with a planned military state before the war (should have been an advantage, almost from the very start was ready: the population of the soviet union was extremely diverse. Soviet union was the largest country in the world (from europe to the.
