Totalitarian States Flashcards
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War Communism
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Tightly regulated system of economic controls used by the communists during the civil war in Russia
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Nikolai Lenin
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Leader of Bolsheviks
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Duma
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Russian National Assembly
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Soviet
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Workers council
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New Economic Policy
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Temporary retreat from communism to rescue the Russian economy which introduced elements of capitalism
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Marx’s view
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Story of class struggle The nature of all institutions and ideas are determined by the exploiting class
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Marx and the Industrial Revolution
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Man becomes the appendage of the machine and disposable
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Goal of communism
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Formation of proletariat into class
Overthrow bourgeois supremacy
Conquest of political power
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Weakness of communism
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Only attained by forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions
