HISTORY 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, Social History
Document Summary
Periods in soviet history: 1917-1918: revolution, 1918-1921: civil war/communism, 1921-1928: nep/ state capitalism , 1928-1953: stalinism, the term stalinism is a contested term. Stalin from the word for steel: many resented leon trotsky within the bolshevik party, stalin and trotsky had many conflicts. The road to stalinism: some believe that there was a natural progress from marxism to leninism to. Revolution and counter-revolution: two interpretations, revolution, revolution fulfilled by stalinism, stalin is the lenin of today, a time of upward economic mobility, stalinism is rapid, state-forced industrialization, collectivization was a disaster. It was resisted by the peasants: the agricultural output fell, but the amount taken in from the countryside increased, agriculture falls and never really recovers fully. In recent years, historians have moved toward cultural history in addition to social history: there"s an independent realms of thoughts, meanings, and tendencies, the belief that all events take place in a larger universe of discourses.
