EURO-UA 511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Existentialism, Surrealism, Collectivism
17 Aug 2016
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Russia in the early 20th century, civil war whites (un-united not-communists) vs. reds (communists) a. i. Britain and us are helping whites (russians don"t forget that: starts ussr with lenin as leader (totalitarian) b. i. Need strong government to get to marxist ideal b. ii. New economic plan allows free enterprise in country but not the city b. ii. 1. Guarantees food countryside farmers can sell food in capitalist way b. ii. 2. Kulaks peasant class (rich-ish peasants) decent number of them: trotsky is internationalist/stalin is socialism in one country (aka totalitarianism) c. i. Stalin cares more about expansion of his power than trotsky or lenin ever did: stalin d. i. Kulaks fat cat capitalists that he exterminates. Collectivizes agriculture (kill the people who know how to farm and makes agriculture inefficient) d. i. 2. a. Good industrial base jump start industrialization in ussr d. i. 3. b. Becoming paranoid about personal threats to his own power d. i. 4. a. i. Anyone who is a threat to him is killed or sent away d. i. 4. a. ii.
