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command economy

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controlled completely by state incl. 5 year plan & collectivisation

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5 year plans

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economic autarky

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collectivisation

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1928-9 - grouping of small farms into bigger ones (alongside liquidation of kulaks blamed for hoarding)

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gosplan

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state planning commission; set targets (little guidance)

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comecon

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integrate EE economy

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cominform

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ideological unity

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nkvd

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Stalins secret police; headed by Yezhov it led purges

later purged itself of 20,000

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purges

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1930s. removal of critics mid thirties membership down by 1/3

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doctors plot

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Stalin accused jewish doctors of trying to poison him. death shortly afterwards prevented LT impat

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new soviet man

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ideal soviet citizen

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stakhanovite movement

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named after miner who produced above quota. incentive scheme (holidays, flats & money)

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leningrad affair

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1948; purge of Zhdanov supporters

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great terror

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1936-39 mass arrests & execution. also enroced war communism, labour codes, kulak liquidat

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socialist realism

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1934 official representation under state guidelines

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georgian affair

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mishandling of georgian nationalism. drew criticism of stalin

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bukharin

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removed from pos as head of Comintern was anti collectivisation

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cominfternq

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communist international body; spread overseas

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great turn

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post NEP

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kolkhozy

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collectivised farm where farmers aren’t employed by state

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solkhozy

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collectivised farm where farmers are employed by state

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MTS

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Machine and tractor station - used on Kolkhozy

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urals-siberation method

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encouragement to denounce grain hoarders during 1928 famine

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1932-4 famine

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poor weather & collectivisation; repression (death penalty & censorship)

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scorched earth policy

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WW2. burning of own land

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united oposition group

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trotsky, kamenev & zinoviev internal opposition(against NEP)

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