POLI SCI 106 Study Guide - Nikita Khrushchev, Nuclear Technology, Glasnost
30 Oct 2014
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Many different nationalities and religious groups: multinational empire- no single national identity (remains true today) no democracy (remains true today) czars not constrained by constitution, magna carta, etc. Part of history, a norm to them doesn"t mean democracy isn"t possible church and state closely allied. Weak modernization- difficult geography and climate- hard to furnish industry: 60% illiterate 1914 (today almost 100%), small middle class. Beginning of 19th century: discontent, want democracy, lose war to japan, depression, failed revolution of 1905, enter wwi. 1917-1921: civil war: lenin & communism vs. tsar forces. Authority vested solely in the communist party, which controlled all government and state. Powerful secret police and system of labor camps. Collectivization of agriculture: collectivization, ukrainian famine : central-planning bureaucracy was created to allocate resources and distribute goods. Farmers destroyed livestock and crops rather than surrender to the state. Agricultural production collapsed, 7 million lives lost in the resulting famine. Great terror and purges, stalin turns on party members.
