CGS SS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ak-47, Lev Kamenev, The Great Terror
4 Apr 2016
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90% of test will be on first four weeks. 10% of test will be on stalin week. A dozen short answers (1 point each) 50% of test essay divided into parts (answer everything) Keep in mind certain themes: russian problems (backwards, serfdom, reform tried to fix it beginning with emancipation and stolypin. What were those reforms and how did they work: revolutionaries what did they want, marxist and to winners (bolsheviks/lenin, tsar regime collapses in wake of wwi with democratic regime only survive 8 months. By late 1920"s, most peasants living same way w/ little industrial progress: marxist says need industrial advance to have socialism, russia recovered under nep. By 1929, stalin triumph politically launched industrialization drive: transform country, within 10 years, became major industrial power by end of 1930s. Collectivized agriculture peasants have farms taken away and work on state-run farm: strictly under control of state. The great purge stalin launch killings.
