HIS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bogeyman, Ice Pick, Food Industry
21 Apr 2016
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Turned russia into an experiment of forced industrialization (starting late 1920s) Stalin is not actually russian, born in georgia. Went to school in a russian orthodox seminary: he was kicked out. Was a common criminal in his youth. Runs with the russian criminal underground: meets with revolutionaries. Thinks that casting himself with the revolutionaries will help him change the world. 1908 he gets arrested for heist of stealing gold: shipped off to siberia, repeatedly escapes from prison (repeatedly b/c he keeps getting caught) Hears about what"s going on in st. petersburg (1917) and takes a trip there to try and help out revolutionary cause. Gets named editor in chief of pravda (bolshevik newspaper: shows how popular he becomes amongst bolsheviks. Gets named commissar of the nationalities by lenin. When lenin dies (1922) the question is who is going to replace him: lots of guys in his inner circle that were better positioned to replace him.
