Russia Historiography Flashcards
“the systematic regimentation of consumption in a besieged fortress”
Trotsky on War communism
“comrade card-index”
Hoskin on Stalin
“Unscrupulous intriguer”
Bukharin on Stalin
“Stalin had luck on his side”
McCauley
“Willful and sly but shabby and inarticulate man in the background”
Deutscher
“the economic problems of 1936-41 amd the Great Purges appear to inexorably linked”
Manning
“Stalin had a need to rid himself of the old Bolshevik party”
Cohen
“gives the impression of a large and crude claylike figure, a golem, into which a demonic spark has been instilled.”
Conquest on Stalin
Believes that stalin purposely caused the famine in Ukraine
Conquest
Building socialism was “hard to distinguish from the actual building of factories and towns”
Fitzpatrick
the mass terror was more a product of local departments than centralised orders from lenin, but this does not mean lenin disapproved of the methods of his agents
Service
“making economic concessions to avoid political concessions”
Lenin justifying NEP
‘peace at any price’
Lenin
“peace, bread, land”
Lenin
“This was the first attempt at the comprehensive planning of a major economy”
Davies on the five year plan
