POL SCI 140L Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Democratic Centralism, Maoism, Millenarianism
9 Mar 2018
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Democratic centralism : lots of discussion within cadres, but then one unified decision. These days seen negatively, but really a pretty democratic leadership . Failure of things are blamed on bureaucratism. Strategic: stalin could use this as an excuse! Enables suspension of disbelief, boosts cohesion and legitimacy. See russia participating in the provisional govt. Do not want to participate in prov gov. Both small movements, factions of the same umbrella movement but . Mensheviks were much larger, had tamer ideas and policies. If you push the will hard enough, you can do anything. Huge quotas: people come together to work hard. During stalin"s purge, people just waited their turn. Liu xiaoqi and zhou enlai: technocratic rationalists (ie. let"s not go overboard) Though now, he"s not ubiquitous (whereas mao"s face is in many places in china) In russia, you had bukharin and trotsky, not just lenin and stalin! Mao based a lot of his version of communism on a stalinist template.
