GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Vladimir Lenin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika
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30: the soviet union and the command economy. Weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects. A group of predominantly east slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities. Born out of russia"s social democrat party. When the party split in 1903, the bolsheviks only had one obvious leader lenin. Bolshevik revolution in october under vladimir lenin with communism imposed. John reed journalist, socialist activist, first-hand account of the bolshevik revolution. Civil war (1918-1921: red vs. white russians. State breaks up private estates and nationalizes land. 1922: lenin institutes new economic policy (market socialism): farmers can sell on the private market while state remains commanding heights of the economy. 1922: russia becomes the ussr: 15 union republics . Battle among leon trotsky and joseph stalin for power: stalin wins and the others lose their lives, under stalin, the command state planned economy full emerges.
