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Lenin theme 1
- constituent assembly 1918
- ban factions
- democratic centralism
- Marxism and proletariat dictatorship
- Chistka
- civil war
- terror
Stalin theme 1
- opposition battle
- shifting power
- 1936 constitution most democratic
- kept structure and nomenklatura
- Chistka
- 1930 purges of party
- Kirov and show trials
- trial of 16.17.21 shakhty
- red army and secret police purges
- doctors plot
Khrushchev theme 1
- Beria rival
- decentralised power
- tenure limits
- presidium, regular meetings, debate
- twenty second party congress 1961
- 1/2 central committtee purges
- released prisoners
Brezhnev theme 1
- oligarchy, gerontocracy, corrupt
- sidelined rivals
- undid tenure, factions
- centralised power
- trust in cadres
- 1977 constitution could criticise
- first among equals 1966
- congress of silence
Lenin theme 2
State capitalism:
-land workers peace decre. Nationalisation.
War communism:
-rationing, harsh, requsitioning, Tambov Kronstadt disease famine
NEP:
-private, corruption black market etc
Stalin theme 2
-five year plans:
Prestige projects, quantity, unskilled, cities, invasion, defence spending
-collectivisation:
-Delulakisation, collectives,MTS, famine 1932-33
WW2: bad defence se being, homeless, places destroyed, industry destroyed
4th 5th and post war agriculture
-reconstruction. Nuclear. Bad recovery in agriculture
Khrushchev theme 2:
- removed harsh labour laws
- focus on light industry
- Lieberman plan
- 7year plan boasted over take west, Sputnik, space, consumer goods abundant
- virgin lands scheme
- collectives given more power, MTS abolished, planned state purchases instead of requisitioning
Brezhnev theme 2:
- Kosygin reforms 1962 sidelines
- 1973 science and industry
- targets further centralised
- ninth five year plan consumer goods 👍
- agriculture increased investment, reversed Khrushchev, shortages. Continued imports
Andropov
Campaign against alcoholism and absenteeism
Lenin theme 3:
- Pravda, Izvestia, loud speakers, radio, printing press nationalised
- cult created by Stalin
- religion opium of masses, 1918 decreee freedom on conscience, civil war attacked religion
- Cheka, 1921-22 red terror, labour camps opened
- enjoyed traditional culture, prolekult, avant garde
Stalin theme 3:
- propaganda
- cult images, Lenin, biographies, childhood shrine, birthday, gulag wept
- churches closed, priests were kulaks, Islam (rmspcr) lessened anti religion during war
- yagoda, yezhov, Beria, torture, camps, red army and secret police, economic output in camps under Beria
- RAPP Cult of little man, socialist realism, CR, Stalinist baroque
Khrushchev theme 4:
- tv 3 mill sets 1958
- condemned cults but had one
- anti religious shut 10,000 churches in 4 years
- shut gulags, 1960 criminal code,
- allowed previously banned culture, nonconformity,
Brezhnev theme 3:
- left out events Moscow fire
- first among equals, cult
- religious tolerance, Christianity rebel thing
- Andropov suppression of dissidents
- nationalism, culture loosened but limits Joseph Brodsky etc
Andropov theme 3:
- accommodated for some pop music
- surveillance of dissidents not real issue
- crackdown alcohol and absenteeism
Lenin theme 4
- employment fell then rose
- houses confiscated not equal
- compulsory vaccination
- work cards, ration cards, paid disability and maternity. Not peasants
- women right to vote, zhenotdel, equal pay, 1918 family code abortion issues contraception
- commissariat for education, quota, no resources, free education, liquidation of illiteracy
