Russian National Study Flashcards
The Soviet states implementation of Bolshevik ideology
Was to some extent maintained, particularly in the early years of the Soviet union.
A 2
Stalins consolidation of power and creation of totalitarianism
A3
Stalin economic and political transformation and social cultural
A1
Lenin’s maintenance and deviance
Bolshevik revolution
Oct 1917
AJP Taylor
Revolution was made for the proletariat not by it
Peace land bread
Slogan
Marxist philosophy
Advocates for free egalitarian society and dictatorship of teh proletariat
Peace decree land decree decree on workers control
Oct 26
Small soviets
Centralised committees across Soviet Union
Self determination
All power to the soviets
War communism
June 1918 til march 1921
Nep
March 1921 -1928
Lenin’s death
Jan 1924
Power vacuum
Between Stalin and Trotsky
Most capable man in the party
Lenin
Stalin supporteed the - then -
Left then right
Khelevnik 2015
The primary forces driving the power struggle were the personal ambitions of Lenin’s heirs
Five points of totalitarianms
Carle friedrich
Ideology
Single party
System of terror
Control of media
Armed forces control
Control of economy
Ban factions
1921
Cult of Stalin
Embodied the nation
The great terror
1936 - 39
Political transformation
Gulags show trials deportations
Rewards
Censorship
Propaganda
Cult
Teror
Censorship example
Editing out of key figures