Stalin and the U.S.S.R.
War Communism Campaign to extract “surplus” wheat Campaign against “Kulaks” Results – –Grain decline from 78 million tons (1913) to 48 million (1920) –Kronsdat Naval Base mutiny 1921 –Famine kills 5 million plus –Helps success of Civil War
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Post Civil War challenges Famine Reluctance of peasants to collectivize Industrial backwardness
Lenin’s Policies New Economic Policy Comintern
Joseph Stalin Djugashvili Head of communist party secretariat
Leon Trotsky
Stalin’s Ascension How did Stalin achieve power? –General Secretary of Party –Party “nomenclature” –Isolates Trotsky –Isolates Kamenev and Zinoviev
Competing Visions Trotsky Communist International (Comintern) Stalin “Socialism in One Country”
Lenin’s concerns: “Stalin is too rude, and his fault… becomes unbearable in the office of General Secretary. Therefore, I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint it to another man.”
“Socialism in One Country” What would Stalin need to do to strengthen the Soviet Union?
Collectivization End of New Economic Policy 1928 …join a kolkhoz or face deportation or death...
Results Destruction of animals / crops Targetting kulaks / others 14 million dead Ukrainian famine 1933
Industrialization: The 5 year plans “We are 50 to 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in 10 years…or we shall be crushed”
5 year plans What would be the most important goals for industrial development? How could the Soviet Union achieve them?
Propaganda
Aleksei Stakhanov
Gulags
Degree of Success of 5 year plans / collectivization Take notes on plans Write a paragraph expressing an opinion TWE the policies were successful /15 Due: