HIST285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Permanent Revolution, Palestinian Christians, Edgar Snow
25 Dec 2017
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[late 19th century split between gradualists (democratic socialists, trade unionism) and revolutionary socialism: marxist-leninism, vladimir lenin. Revolutionary: vanguard party: not mass party, party of professional revolutionaries. Dictatorship of the proletariat": need them to take over before achieving true communism. Because they"re fed up over with capitalism: imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism , 1917, chiang kai-shek. However, needed a one-party rule: against marxism and leninism. His son brings taiwan to the multi-party democracy: stalinism, josef stalin, late 1920s 1953. Autocrat dictator of soviet union: totalitarianism, centralized control of the economy (5 year plans), cult of personality, purges (late 1930s), soviet union as wwii victor. Holodomor; total death toll 40-60 million: mao loved stalin, showed worldwide revolution, everybody leaving in fear, people just died even when you retired, nikita khrushchev, 1953 1964, believed in the communion system, de-stalinization. Years of stagnation" to 1991: cold war, third world.
