POLS 264 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Moscow Canal, Class War, Planned Economy
11 Apr 2018
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Planned economy took place of free market. Racial assimilation gave way to racial persecution. Hitler was relative late comer to the war. Ww ii began in 1937 in china. Financial burdens of war compounded by governments raising tariffs and taxes. Depression revealed limits of american way and any economy that traded/borrowed from us. Only way out of crisis was new government. Stalin"s 5 year plan = realized dream of state socialism. Class and race are not distinct concepts in stalin"s regime. Herditary attributes of class (farmer = farmer) Stalin regard certain ethnic groups as inherently unreliable. Gulag is broken down by nationality = pols (particularly targeted by regime) American system produce franklin roosevelt, germany produce hitler. Hitler national humiliation redemption and economic recovery. German speakers outside reich were to be brought home to a greater germany. Rise of intermarriage of jews between germans. German community feared judaism in germany would die out.
