HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Saint Petersburg, Utopia, New Economic Policy
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Some states recover more quickly than others. Influence of john maynard kaynes call for government to engage with population with public works. Germany gets reparations down to almost nothing. It is an extraordinary event in soviet history. Part of what happens is a war on the country side. Lower class want to get rid of the land owning class above them. They need to turn into an industrial state, to do so they need to drive the peasant out of the country side. Bottom line: by november 1917 the bolsheviks were in control (communists) when he talked about 1917 he only talked about st. The bolsheviks will take over the rest of russia between 1917-21led by lenin. Kiev (ukrainian)- people emerge thinking it is the time to create an independent. Ukraine but ukrainians aren"t unified in any sort. This is good news to lenin because he is able to take control very easily.
