HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Nikita Khrushchev, Nomenklatura, On The Cult Of Personality And Its Consequences
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Wind of change by the scorpions will be on the exam haha. Based on force/violence: many people in e. europe believed in socialism, but, in trying to reform socialism, there was repressions and violence. Corruption: it was supposed to be a society where people were equal, but under soviet communism, this was not the case, nomenklatura people under soviet communism who had extra benefits clearly this is not equal . Senior communist officials leads the communists. Relations with usa: tried to put nuclear warheads on cuba, less conservative than stalin. Economics: tried to move economy to consumer goods not industry: this largely fails. Large, violent repressions of the communist movement (tanks, weapons) Post repression: gulash socialism it"s a mix of things. The states control heavy industry, but at the local level there are private industries. Anti-soviet policies were met with repression, once more.
