AG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: War Communism, Peter Kenez, System On A Chip

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: AG - Agriculture
• Course: AG 105
• Professor: Bond

Document Summary

Nep -> lenin: one step backward, two steps forward - from nep russia will grow socialistic. He was a exible politician, who knew how to change his tactics to survive. In this issue the episode of nep is key: The kronstadt uprising: the sailors where the spirit of the october revolution =hated requisitions to the peasants, hated the privileges taken by the leaders of the party and demanded new elections. Congress 1) economic relaxation and recovery through nep 2)political discipline and centralisation with faction-ban. > reintroduction of market, money, small scale industries (cafes, shops, ) And this is why this policies were distrusted by communist, who were ghting to eliminate it. While becoming more exible in economy, lenin became more strict in politics and within the party: it was no longer democratic, people could no longer dissent or have di erent ideas or criticise the party"s decisions.