HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, New Economic Policy, Vladimir Lenin
Document Summary
The cold war: the beginnings of communism. Socialism: a social and economic system that believes in command economy, not markets, resources distributed by government. Communism: subset of socialism, people live in communal space and have shared resources. Proletariat (workers) vs. bourgeoisie (controllers of workers) Worker revolution- to overthrow bourgeoisie, produce less, and work less (start) nationalism and (leads to) internationalism. Where will the revolution begin? (england, france, or germany all are industrialized) Bolsheviks majority (marxist russian social democratic labor party) New economic policy (nep)- nationalized agriculture allows small businesses, collectivized farms. Communist international- bring about revolution, russia abandons, lenin takes control. Lenin dies from stroke (1924) without naming successor. Joseph stalin- man of steel, kills competition to take power. Stalinism- strong leadership at top, force and violence. Purges- foreigners from government, stalin killed 2-3 million people. Molotov-ribbentrop pact- ussr and germans don"t kill each other, split poland.
