AHSS 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Consequentialism, Asymmetric Warfare, Walter Duranty
18 Jun 2018
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Human Disorder and World Disorder Week 10 March 21st 2017
Unit 8 Stalin: Belief and Terror
(S2) Reign of Stalin
Mandelstam: “this was really done by people?!”
(S3) The Trap of Terror
Aristotle: “preserve tyranny… keep down the people who are ambitious…knock down anyone who does
not submit…”
How to stay away from an uprising ; keep the citizens dumb and strangers to themselves…
wedel language down so that the only way to express yourself is saying “yes.”
(S4-5) Terror & Atomization
Stalin didn’t start the Soviet terror but he raised it to a new level and universalized terror’s reach
Society was atomized as never before
Resistance was paralysed by lack of trust
people could not combine against the terror b/c things said to more than a few would be herd
by an informer
The terror fed on itself
Fear led some to establish their own credentials by informing on others
Those who did nothing might still be denounced by those arrested and put under pressure to
name ‘accomplices’
People were denounce by enemies or by those who wanted their jobs or houses
“even a hint of stepping out of line could bring drastic retribution”
(S6) Belief
“Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him…” (Alexander
Solzhenitsyn)
(Stalin built the most extravagant subway to say screw you to the Americans.)
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Document Summary
Unit 8 stalin: belief and terror (s2) reign of stalin. Mandelstam: this was really done by people? (s3) the trap of terror. Aristotle: preserve tyranny keep down the people who are ambitious knock down anyone who does not submit . How to stay away from an uprising ; keep the citizens dumb and strangers to themselves wedel language down so that the only way to express yourself is saying yes. (s4-5) terror & atomization. Stalin didn"t start the soviet terror but he raised it to a new level and universalized terror"s reach. Resistance was paralysed by lack of trust. People could not combine against the terror b/c things said to more than a few would be herd by an informer. Fear led some to establish their own credentials by informing on others. Those who did nothing might still be denounced by those arrested and put under pressure to name accomplices".
