GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Nikolai Bukharin, Gosplan, Leon Trotsky
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Monday, 21 march, 2016. The soviet union and the command economy. Communism and the market. 14 hours work days. The problem with capitalism was private ownership of resources (as noted by. Marx thought the evils of capitalism were perpetrated by private property and the market. + sell there is no market. These markets are determined by the supply and demand schedules. Command economy: where the centralized authority commands how economic resources are used (not a decentralized market) 1989: the soviet union began. 1991: the eradication of the soviet union. Eastern front was where germany was fighting the russians. Ramonovs executed and thus a new government came into control - - > lead to civil unrest. Essentially when the bolshevik communist party took control of russia (caused a revolution) State broke up private estates and nationalized the land (as per marx concepts) through exchange of land) 1918- 1922: civil war in russia, called the red (i. e. the bolshevik supporters) vs.