1. The 1920s Part Two CANADA AND THE WORLD HISTORY 3040 Dr. Curtis Cole
Trent University in Oshawa
December 27, 2009

2. The 1920s: Part Two
The New Soviet Union

3. The Russian Revolution
The 1920s: Part Two
The Russian Revolution

4. The 1920s: Part Two
KARL MARX

5. THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, 1848
The 1920s: Part Two
KARL MARX
FRIEDRICH ENGELS
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, 1848

6. THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, 1848
The 1920s: Part Two
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, 1848
unified German republic
democratic suffrage
universal free education
arming the people
progressive income tax
limitations on inheritance
state ownership of banks, railroads, canals, mines, etc.
collectivized agriculture

7. The 1920s: Part Two
KARL MARX
DAS KAPITAL, 1867

8. MARXISM The 1920s: Part Two DAS KAPITAL, 1867 French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
German philosophy
Social and Economic Equality
Personal Liberty
Alienation
KARL MARX
DAS KAPITAL, 1867

9. MARXISM Classes The 1920s: Part Two DAS KAPITAL, 1867 Feudal Bourgeois
Class Conflict
Revolution
England, 1642
France, 1789
Germany 1848
KARL MARX
DAS KAPITAL, 1867

10. MARXISM Dialectic Social Revolution Classes
The 1920s: Part Two
MARXISM
Aristotle
Classes
Bourgeois
Proletariat
Dialectic
Social Revolution
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
KARL MARX
DAS KAPITAL, 1867

11. Russia, 1917 The 1920s: Part Two top down, not bottom up
Government by “Soviets”
top down, not bottom up
Lenin

12. New Constitution: July 19, 1918 local Soviets
The 1920s: Part Two
New Constitution: July 19, 1918
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
local Soviets
provincial Congress of Soviets
All Russian Congress of Soviets
Executive Committee
People’s Commissars
open elections
Lenin

13. The 1920s: Part Two Communist Party Central Committee Political Bureau
ruled country
Lenin

14. New Constitution: July 19, 1918 Part One:
The 1920s: Part Two
New Constitution: July 19, 1918
Part One:
Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited Peoples
Lenin

15. Soviet Democracy The 1920s: Part Two New Constitution: July 19, 1918
All Russian Congress
Central Executive Committee
Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom)
Soviet Democracy
= Communist Party
Monopoly
Lenin

16. New Constitution: July 19, 1918 disenfranchised:
The 1920s: Part Two
New Constitution: July 19, 1918
disenfranchised:
exploiters
private business people
clergy
pre-revolutionary police
royalty
mentally unfit
criminals
“enemies of the people”
Lenin

17. New Constitution: July 19, 1918 disproportionate urban vote
The 1920s: Part Two
New Constitution: July 19, 1918
disproportionate urban vote
1 urban vote = 5 rural votes
federal constitution
Communist Party born March 1918
membership restricted
First Purge, 1921
Lenin

18. Politburo Orgburo Secretariat The 1920s: Part Two
All-Union Congress of Soviets
Central Committee
Politburo
Orgburo
Secretariat
Lenin

19. Original Politburo Members
The 1920s: Part Two
Original Politburo Members
Lenin
Stalin
Trotsky

20. The 1920s: Part Two
Lenin
died January, 1924

21. The 1920s: Part Two
Lenin’s Successors?
Trotsky
Stalin

22. The 1920s: Part Two Trotsky Leon Bronstein - born 1879
Chairman, St. Petersburg Soviet, 1905
joined Bolsheviks 1917
Commissar for War
Lenin considered him “heir-apparent”
Trotsky

23. The 1920s: Part Two
born 1879
born in Georgia
Stalin

24. The 1920s: Part Two

25. The 1920s: Part Two
born 1879
born in Georgia
Josip Djugashvili
Stalin

26. The 1920s: Part Two
“Comrade Stalin, having become General Secretary, has concentrated enormous power in his hands, and I am not sure he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution....
Lenin’s
“Testament”

27. Not published for 30 years!
The 1920s: Part Two
“Stalin is too rude, and this fault, acceptable among us Communists, is intolerable in the office of General Secretary. Therefore I propose to the Comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it a man who is... more patient, more loyal, more polite, and more attentive to comrades, less capricious.…”
Not published for 30 years!
Lenin’s
“Testament”

28. The 1920s: Part Two
Stalin

29. The 1920s: Part Two
Stalin with Molotov

30. Molotov, Stalin and Voroshilov
The 1920s: Part Two
Molotov, Stalin and Voroshilov

31. The 1920s: Part Two
Trotsky

32. The 1920s: Part Two
Lev Kamenev
Grigorii Zinoviev

33. The 1920s: Part Two
Lev Kamenev
Leon Trotsky
Grigorii Zinoviev

34. Assassinated, Mexico City, 1940
The 1920s: Part Two
Trotsky
Assassinated, Mexico City, 1940

35. CANADA AND THE WORLD The 1930s Part One NEXT CLASS: January 11, 2010
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The 1930s
Part One
Reading:
Stacey, vol. II, pp