POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Civil Society, Nikolai Bukharin, Yuri Andropov
15 Apr 2013
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Last stage of soviet development can be considered as overlapping with the first stage of transition. Major developments and events from 1985 present. Importance of leadership in understanding the limits of change (gorbachov, elstin and putin) One of the major challenges russia has confronted since the collapse of soviet union is trying to figure out its identity. Different identities are contesting for domination over who the russian people are. The new leadership, mikhail gorbachov, started with what existed by way of the legacies of lenin, stalin, khrushchev and brezhnev. There was a recognition of a need for change but a lack of will to begin to move the country in that direction. The legacies consisted of the core of stalinism industrialization and collectivization drive, also for the most part it was without the coercion of the. Stalinist period and without stalin himself (this period is called stalinism lite because it taken off the extreme edges of stalinism).
