Stats + Quotes Flashcards
what did Stalin want to create in terms of communism?
“impregnable fortress of Communism.”
what did Lenin do in terms of defining Leninism
“eschewed giving a definition” (Service)
polling of Bolsheviks in first elections
Bolsheviks only poll @ 24% (25 Oct 1917)
brest litovsk m/y
March 1918
brest litovsk: Rus lost how much territory (fraction), how much reparation
- lost 1/2 european territory
- pay 6bil marks reparations
harvest of 1918 success?
no, Harvest of 1918 less than 1/10th of 1916
post-WAR COMMUNISM grain harvest increase
After WAR COMMUNISM: Grain harvest increased by over 10 mil tons 1921-1924
times NEP were implemented
1921-1928
Lenin charcterisation of NEP
“tactical retreat” - some random person
Stalin ability to use position
As the Chairman of the Secretariat, and the only Politburo member in the Orgburo, he could promote his friends and dismiss opponents (Figes)
similarities between leaders quote service
“Each… believed in the one-party… one-ideology state, … and terror” (Service)
stalin’s tac… fle…
“tactical flexibility” - Kotkin
Aims of Stalin’s 5YPs quote
“total centralization and state control” (service)
canal
The 227 km White Sea Canal was Stalin’s “greatest propaganda success” (Figes), built with labor from 100k gulag inmates, opened 1933
5 year plan timeline
5YP 1: 1928-1932, 2: 1933-1937, 3: 1938-1941
White Sea Canal constraints
- made shallower due to cost + time constraints of 2st 5YP = 5YPs too fast + quantity > quality
1932-1933 famine
up to 7 million people died, direct result of inefficient rationing + industrialisation
collectivisation start
1928
collectivisation success
early 1930s = 91% of agricultural land collectivized, but
Stalin goal for socialism
create “future socialist utopia” - Figes
party growth 1921-1930
The party grew by nearly a million between 1921-1930!
when trial of 21? who killed?
1938 - RIP rykov, bukharin
height of great terror years, how many people imprisoned/shot
37-38, 1.3 million imprisoned, half of these shot
oil, gas, steel production almost ___ between which years
1928-1938: oil, gas, and steel production more than doubled
grain harvest increase under 1st 5YP
grain harvest increased by 2 mil tonnes
date of communist victories for cambodia, vietnam, laos (chronological)
Khmer Rouge 15 April 1975, Viet Cong 30 April 1975, December 1975
