PSCI 256 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-4: Great Purge, Patrimonialism
31 Jan 2017
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State of emergency all the time * war economic development/ harsh climate. Stalin"s regime: mass terror, forced industrialization p. 38 the party was to set goals, resolve conflicts, and monitor all basic political process, including political socialization, elite recruitment, and policy implementation. Maintain their national cultures but to do so without challenging the center"s power. Goods such as housing, med care, education, cars were under distribution system. No agreed mechanism for deciding when and how power would be transferred. Stalinist state p. 34 nee to find a way forward for a backward country seeking industrialization: industrialization, collectivization -> resulted in civil war in the countryside and famine, political developments -> resulted in the stalinist system. Always compared themselves to french revolution, wondering if there is gonna be a bonaparte. Cult of lenin - symbol of unity; a mask. Nep - rebuild the trade between town and country, ownership private and private agriculture. (1923-
