POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rabkrin, Radical Change, War Communism
15 Apr 2013
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Pol354 lecture 6 understand stalin"s accession to power. The tensions produced by state and society during the period of war communism led into a major undertaking of lenin"s modernization project scrapped war communism: Nep major concessions to what were deemed to be class enemies (a class on peasantry, recognized some degree of control over land, re-establishment of a private sector producing consumer goods, and opening up commerce thus introducing a market). This formed a political framework of unity within which the party is ready to make concessions to what it deemed to be class enemies. Lenin wanted to avoid a power struggle within the party and wanted to avoid debate and criticism to the new economic system. Need to understand the distribution of power/power structure throughout the stalin years. Power struggle is triggered in may of 1922 when lenin suffers the first of a series of strokes (dies in january of 1924).
