HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Leninism, Black Market, Nikolai Bukharin
4 Apr 2017
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Agenda: russia at the end of the civil war, the new economic policy, the death of lenin & the rise of stalin, socialism in one country , five year plans and collectivization, the show trials & great purges. Joseph stalin: leon trotsky, new economic policy (nep, five year plans, collectivization, show trials, great purges. The great influenza, 1918-19 (biggest epidemic/ pandemic in human history) With the troop moving across continent this spread typhus. By 1920 typhus was the biggest killer. 1. 7 million killed just in russian troops. Massive civilian casualties and deaths of non-combaters (children) Atrocities against civilians, mass rape & looting this was used to terrorize a population and targeted women and girls. Emma goldman"s view she was a leading speaker writer and thinker she had sheer disappointment of the outcome of ww1. New economic policy: started by small traders and merchants, technically an underground economy that the bolsheviks made legitimate.
