EURR 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Konstantin Chernenko, Nomenklatura, Nikita Khrushchev

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5 Apr 2023

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Carleton University

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European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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EURR 2002

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Week 4 - part 1: the soviet legacy. After ww ii, one of two superpowers, head of major political/military bloc. Multi-ethnic state (1991 only about 51% of population ethnically russian) Warsaw treaty organisation of friendship, cooperation an mutual. Cmea - council for mutual economic assistance (1949-1991) 1917 bolshevik seizure of power (end of tsarist rule) 1918-1928 civil war, war communism new economic policy. Great patriotic war" (allied with us, uk against fascists) 1991 collapse of the ussr into 15 independent states. Communist party of the soviet union (cpsu) (collective leadership) Party leaders: lenin, stalin, khrushchev, brezhnev, chernenko, gorbachev) Popular mobilization in support of the regime. The means of production (factories) and land publicly owned. Priority on rapid industrialization, especially heavy industry, military sector; service and consumer sectors underdeveloped. Exceptions: small private plots could be run by individuals. From a backward agrarian country into a strong industrial power in a decade. Radical increase in production and gdp from 1928 to 1940.

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