HIST 3203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ukrainian Nationalism, War Communism, Magnitogorsk
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In a sense, this is related to socialism in one country, as this started off in a change of socialist policy. Trotsky was wanting permanent revolution, but stalin believed that socialism could be maintained and built upon by itself in one country. It implied a change of domestic policy, and strong industrial policy. Stalin"s switch was the other shoe dropping, and was the other side of the economic change. More broadly, there is a sense of many people in the party that believed that continuing with the socialist ideas would mean that the su would remain a peasant country. The only way to develop the country would be through the peasants, and through industrialization. One had to extract the money through the peasants. The soviets very much didn"t liker he kulaks, regarding them as class enemies. Anybody who employed the labour of others was bad. Otherwise, they had a anti-peasant attitude in general.
