GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: High Modernism, War Communism, Social Order
Document Summary
Outline james scot"s concept of authoritarian high modernism. Consider the program and pracices of farm collecivizaion under stalin. A strong version of the beliefs in scieniic and technical. Idealized versions of modern noions of progress and percepions of science. Assumed the virtues of: coninued linear progress, development of scieniic and technical knowledge, expansion of producion, raional design of the social order, growing saisfacion of human needs, an increasing control over nature(including human nature) Regimes adoping ahm principles applied the full powers of the state to order nature and society. In a range of destabilized states in the 20th century, a weakened civil society had diiculty resising. Reality that conforms to ideas of high modernism. Former soviet structures were eroded, instability in local context. The assault on private property; theory and pracice. State had assumed authority over land, banking system, the economy etc. Temporary restoraion of market economy: small business returned, peasants could sell surplus, restore aspects of the market economy.
