HI 233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kulak
Document Summary
The soviet union under stalin (introduction to the wwi and the great depression) What new types of political economies took shape in response to the great war and the. Stalin"s soviet union (wanted an alternative to capitalism) The welfare state and the us new deal. During lenin and for the few years after he died in 1924, the bolsheviks implemented policies that were designed to stabilize the economy. The initial economic policy was the nep that permitted small business owners to operate as small private business owners. Under the nep, private farms and factories were tolerated to a certain extent. Allowed free market in certain sectors, but not in heavy industry/infrastructure. This was not exactly what communism had in mind, but it was the compromise that had to be made. After lenin"s death, joseph stalin came in power, and argued the nep was reinstating capitalism in the russian economy.
