HIS242H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Talin Protein, Show Trial, Appeasement
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His 242: lecture 5: totalitarianism ideology, (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:272)le joe(cid:863) tali(cid:374) (cid:894)r. (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1006)-1952): uncontested head of the communist party in russia (1928). Most soldiers from the first world war are gone by late 1920s. Society (cid:373)ade up of (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ers (cid:449)ho gre(cid:449) up (cid:449)ith (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)is(cid:373) e(cid:272)retar(cid:455) (cid:894) talin) is in charge of party patro(cid:374)age. Tali(cid:374) is (cid:272)riti(cid:272)ized for (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g a (cid:862)paper pusher(cid:863). Stalin exploits his power as the party secretary and consolidates power in his position and makes himself the person who has full power (who gets hired/fired, gets contract, promoted, etc. ) and builds support. Industrialization is profoundly disruptive to society (exploitation of workers, child labour, bad working conditions, etc. ). Communist revolution got rid of private property (stalin a(cid:271)olishes (cid:862)(cid:272)olle(cid:272)ti(cid:448)atio(cid:374)(cid:863): for(cid:272)efull(cid:455) seizes pri(cid:448)ate propert(cid:455) a(cid:374)d state (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol of pri(cid:448)ate property): collectivation: peasants resist having their property seized by burning crops and slaughtering livestock. 40% people in kazakhstan died due to the famine caused by it.
