POL354Y5 Lecture Notes - Public Sphere, Profit Motive, Mikhail Gorbachev
Document Summary
Putin / medvedev: revolution (november 1917) (lenin) Seize power in name of socialist" revolution; Party directs transfer of power and sets agenda; Dictatorship of proletariat": withering away of state as instrument of class rule; state & planning substitute for private sector & market; New social structure: national identities, etc); elimination of major sources of exploitation (classes, society governed by principles of equality, harmony, etc; New soviet person; creation of individual, collective, community identity: significant increase in industrial base, urbanization, technology high level of material well-being; From each according to ability to each according to needs ; socialism; socialism; communism. General comments: vague and indeterminate vision, lack of plan, methods, time frame; (unique russian path + catching up to & surpassing west). Result: tensions between regime and workers / peasants: new economic policy (1921 -1928) (lenin, reinforce party monopoly of political power (precondition): Strengthen internal party unity (ban on party factions);
