HIST 326 Lecture Notes - Alternative Media, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev
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Writing about battles begin by placing it in a larger context. Stalin cult = as much russian as a part of a whole group of modern political cults: necessary to compare the stalin cult with contemporary cults of the time = vs. mussolini and. International situation and background that formed a prelude to the gt. Some of the characteristics of totalitarian states and regimes that were a major part of 20thc european history. Priorities were agreed by the party, sent to the gosplan (state committee for planning) whom drafted the real plan w. targets, copies were then sent to the relevant ministries. In the case of the soviet union = state became an errand boy for the party with the hq of the. Communist party leading the nation and state: up to the state to pretend/actually achieve the targets. Communist idea of modernity was central to this also.
