Stalin quotes Flashcards
“Stalin’s rule…
“Stalin’s rule was seen as a little more than an inevitable product- indeed, a continuation, a fruition- of Leninist Bolshevism.” - Henry Reichman
Richard Lowenthal interpreted…
Richard Lowenthal interpreted the evolution of communist states in terms of an irresolvable tension between utopian and developmental aims.
“The Soviet Union is…
“The Soviet Union is a contradictory society halfway between capitalism and socialism.” - Leon Trotsky
Tony Cliff concluded…
Tony Cliff concluded that under Stalin’s leadership a new capitalist ruling class had come to power in the Soviet Union.
After the Civil War…
After the Civil War “Bolshevism acquired a social basis it did not want and did not immediately recognise- the bureaucracy.”
“There was no…
“There was no self-confident tyrant in charge of a smoothly functioning totalitarian machine, but a sickly old man; unpredictable, dangerous, lied to by terrified subordinates, presiding over a ramshackle bureaucracy and raging against failure and mortality.” - Stephen Ward
“The Cold War was not…
“The Cold War was not a competition of equals: rather it was an unequal struggle between one strong regime, the US, and one fragile regime: the Soviet Union.” - Stephen Lee
“A large backlog of…
“A large backlog of unexploited economic potential and more efficient repression were two sources of post-war Soviet economic resilience.” - Mark Harrison
“After WW2 the Soviet economy…
“After WW2 the Soviet economy was permanently more focussed on militarisation in preparation for war.”
“It was easier to attribute…
“It was easier to attribute…to Stalin’s personal shortcomings than to the deficiencies of the system itself.” - Stephen Lee
“The 1930s was an era…
“The 1930s was an era of great social mobility, but for too many the direction was down, not up.” - Moshe Lewvin
The Great Patriotic War…
The Great Patriotic War “pulled the country together, partly through the massive patriotic response to the…German invasion and partly because the military success had prevented it from disintegrating again once the the emergency was over.” - Stephen Lee
