POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Georgy Malenkov, Lavrentiy Beria, Lazar Kaganovich
15 Apr 2013
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The importance of the role of coercion as an integral part of stalinism. Nationalities policy remember lenin supported and encouraged the development of national identities among the national minorities of the country. Stalin"s nationality policy has two very different interpretations of its implications and its consequences for the collapse of the soviet union: the soviet union under stalin had been an experience of nation destroying that was very deliberate. These communities saw this as a deliberate attack on their own identity. Stalin saw these people as being too nationalistic. The ideology itself led to a wide range of policy that undermined national identites: The emergence of the new soviet man who would have a set of secular socialist values see himself in terms of relations and class interest. Militant athiesm aggressive attacks on established religions which constitute an integral part of any national identity. Under stalin there was a very extensive program of deportations of entire nationalities.
