Theme 2 Key Words Flashcards
Command economy
An economy that is controlled and directed by the state. It is a common feature of communist economies, where many businesses and industries are owned by the state in the interests of the people.
State capitalism
The transitional stage between the old bourgeois economy and a new proletariat one.
Bartering
Paying for goods with other goods rather than money.
MIR
An organisation made up of village elders that controlled the peasants and heir agricultural work.
Nepmen
Abuse used by bolsheviks to describe those private business people and traders who profited from the NEP.
Socialism in one country
The slogan used to describe the policy of industrialising the USSR and moving towards socialism by using the resources of the Soviet Union.
Bourgeois experts
A term used by Bolsheviks to describe former managers and owners of industry who were given jobs after nationalisation because they possessed skills and expertise that were desperately needed.
Superindustrialisers
Those within the communist party who believed that agriculture surpluses should be seized by the state in order to invest in industry.
Gulag
A vast system of forced labour camps whose appalling conditions have it the nickname the ‘meat grinder’.
Dekulakisation squads/ twenty-five thousanders
Groups of loyal party members who were sent into the countryside to forced the peasant collectives.
Holodomor
Murder by starvation.
The Cold War
The deterioration in relations between the USSR and the West.
Light industry
Industries that are involved in manufacturing dogs offering household products such as clothing, shoes and furniture.
Military-industrial complex
The term given to the powerful bloc created by links between the armed forces and those sectors of the economy involved in the manufacture of military products.
Supply and demand
Principle by which prices are decided in a free-market economy
