HIST 335 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Grigory Zinoviev, Nepman

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 335
• Professor: Ilya Vinkovetsky

Document Summary

Society needed to understand the collective experience in a new way (transformation to communism: also needed science and technology to erase illiteracy and end economic backwardness, main goals to: electrify the country (change peoples" lives), wipe out illiteracy and religion, by the end of the nep period, used power to reconceptualise law, religion and create a proletariat culture (including aesthetics). Factions in bolshevik party: some challenge lenin advocate for more internal democracy, others want independence of trade unions (not representing workers because exclusively loyal to party, third faction believe that the party was getting too soft, all factions were informal, congress endorsed nep, aims to ease public resentment against emergency measures, give more opportunities to peasants, declared factories state owned but peasants can keep profits from sales at market, small businesses allowed create nep men, who had good effect on economy, small scale production and businesses.