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1- GOVERNMENT - LENIN COMMUNIST 1- GOVERNMENT
RUSSIA
.Forming the troika to remove
.IN 1917 the Bolsheviks only had 300,000 Trotsky
members .Stalin attacks Bukharin & Rykov
.Military Coup > Proletariat revolution 1929
.Treaty Of Brest- Litovsk ( Russia lost 54% of .Approximately 220,000
Industry ,32% agriculture) Bolshevik members were purged
.Civil War (Tambov and Kronstadt rebellion ) or left
. TRIANGLES .Party Congress 1934 –Kirov won
.Lenin's testament (discontent with Stalin) vote – Kirov assassinated 1934
.28,000 executions per year from 1917-1922 .One million executed between
1937-8
.DOCTORS PLOT
1- GOVERNMENT – KHRUSHCHEV 1-.Mingrelian
GOVERNMENT -
Affair
BREZHNEV
.Politburo renamed Presidium .Era of Stagnation
.Executed Beria + Removed Malenkov .Politburo name changed back in PA
.Socialist Legality 1966
.1956 Secret Speech .reverse destalinization
.3 year limit to membership .’trust in Cadres’ L
.Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 .Article 6 1977 = Party> state
.By 1960 the USSR reached 42 million hectares .Between 1964 and 1971 only two
of new cultivated land people where promoted to
politburo
.Average age of Politburo 1972 ,
62yrs
, 2-INDUSTRY + AGRICULTU
2-INDUSTRY + AGRICULTURE – STALIN
FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN= 1928-32
LENIN
State Capitalism F.Y.P = 1933-37
3rd F.Y.P= 1938-42. 4th F.Y.P=
-The Land Decree 1917
50
-Decree On Workers’ control
.Siberian Railway completed
-Peoples bank nationalized
Gosplan set quotas
-Vesenkka
.Magnitogorosk
WAR COMMUNISM
.Full week work
-Ban on Private Trade
.Moscow university 1932
-60% of bread produced in black market
.Moscow –Volga canal 1937
-1920 Kronsdat rebellion
.1928-32 coal production increase
-6 million dead to famine (grain requisitioning)
84%
Industrial workforce declined from 3 mill 1917
.14.5 million killed during collectiv
to 1.2 mill in 1922
.By 1941, 99% of USSR farms whe
NEP
collectivized
-1921
.22.6 million tones of grain in 1933
-private ownership of land 2- INDUSTRY + AGRI
.Industrial output increased by 80%
-End of Grain requisitioning .250% increase in farm incomes in 1956
.Increased1945-50
agricultural investment to 12.8% from 1954-59
-NEPMEN growth
.2.7
to 2% a year million new homes created aft
in 1960
-From 1926 -28 the industrial economy .Virgin Lands Scheme
.88%of investment to heavy indus
plateaued .Converted farms expanded from 18.2 million hectares in
mill 1956
-Scissors crisis .First satellite into orbit 1957
.Factories where allowed to keep 40% of profits
.Increase military spending to 11%
.Seven Year plan
.60% increase in production of consumer goods
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