HIS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: New Economic Policy, Nikolai Bukharin, Leon Trotsky
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Stalin (1878-1953: looked at as one of the most terrifying modern dictators, he was a nobody until after russian revolution (1921) then towered over all and eliminated all rivals, soviet dictatorship founded on fear. Vladimir lenin: laid the framework for stalin terror, head of russia government . oversaw revolution, set up the gulag labor camps. Leon trotsky: lenin"s right hand man . red army organizer, uses terror to enforce the party"s desire true believers hates kulaks. Winning the civil war (1917-1922: reds (bolsheviks) vs whites, both sides murdered enemies due to ideologies, us, uk, france supported whites, reds win, more brutal, organized, united, soviet union economic shambles, 2 million dead from military casualties . 7 million dead from famine, disease, privation, etc: 80% soviet union peasants. Building socialism: lenin institutes new economic policy (nep) basically capitalism and it worked, nep favored kulaks (affluent peasants, lenin dies 1924 no leader anymore.
