HSTR 240B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: New Economic Policy, Leninism, Permanent Revolution
13 Sep 2016
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Peace, land and bread: 1918: peasants" revolts and workers" actions helped lenin. Took credit for land seizures and control of factories. Land and bread: treaty of brest-litovsk and victory in the civil war. Still spring, 1921: food supplies low, drought, famine in 17 provinces, 50-90% starving, industrial production tiny % New economic policy (nep: march 1921, limited economic freedom, peasants allowed to sell surpluses on the free market criticized by come young. Communists: at right from the nep russia will come the socialist russia (1921, historian agree that this was a very successful idea. Question of lenin"s successor: leon trotsky (permanent revolution, not just focus on russia, this revolution needed to be worldwide, joseph stalin (socialism in one country, cement the foundations of socialism in. 1924-1927: stalin achieved supreme power, by 1927: no deviation from the general party line". The stalinist revolution: differences from leninism much debated, scrapped nep, first five year plan (1928)
