HIS2117 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Desalination, Staling, Society 1
24 Mar 2017
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Vyssotsky - song played at the begging of the class. A metaphor for the restrictions of a conformist society. The wolf is a proud wild beast that breaks through the limits of the society. Overcoming conservative society: assessment of khrushchev"s reforms. The degrees of success of his desalinization. In 1964 was voted out of power. Shows the limits of the ability to reform the system. More direct decision making brought down to the level of the citizens. Attacked the entrenched interests of the powerful men. Was not shot or put in jail. Says that stalin would have shot them all. One of the reasons he was voted out, = he failed in performance. A lot of his reforms had been disasters because he had not consulted enough with experts, wanted the will and optimism to win them over. In this way he was still using stalins methods.
