AG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Justice Society Of America, Totalitarianism, Scapegoating

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: AG - Agriculture
• Course: AG 105
• Professor: Bond

Document Summary

Stalinism =the system and the values of soviet politics and society as created by stalin in the. Stalinism is at the heart of soviet history (kenez) >absurd contrast between terror and transformation: topics: 1) terror, 2)soc-econ, 3)cult-ideol, 4)foreign policy. 1934: the 17th pc, congress of victors and the murder of sergei kirov -> turning point of history. Congress of self-congratulation, party members reunited to cheer stalin -> he also points out the intensi cation of class struggle: kirov=the ideal of young communist, the helping hand , was killed by an extremist . > it is still a mystery, for us, who really did it. It was, for russia, like the killing of the archduke ferdinand. The more powerful the members were, the more they were in danger: people at trials were the heroes of the rst years of the revolution, lenin"s comrades, etc . Stalin"s personal motifs of: distrust, ghting opposition, scapegoating and security reasons.