History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Leon Trotsky, Class Conflict, Bourgeoisie
19 Aug 2016
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Lecture: atrocities of the civil war committed by both sides. The soviet union: 1920-1939: lenin had been the one to order the death of the czar and his family a. i. Half the food producing regions of russia were short on food d. iii. Lack of food reserves due to the army taking it d. iv. Lenin refused to acknowledge that there was a famine at the beginning but requested food later on: new economic policy of 1921, the first priority was to produce food for the people a. i. The largest enterprises were nationalized in the socialist manner and the small farms were allowed to keep their land in the capitalist manner a. i. 1. The state permitted private ownership of small enterprises and of farmland: problems with the new economic policy, from the communist point of view, it was contrary to communist ideology as it limits rapid industrialization and soviet power a. i.
