1. Chapter 35 Day 2
Age of Anxiety

2. War Communism, (?)
Rapid collectivization
Confiscations
Massively unpopular, Lenin backtracks in 1921
New Economic Policy (NEP) partial privatization of the economy- WHY?
The Bolshevik Revolution (2nd Russ Rev)
October/November 1917 (Peace, Land and Bread)
Lenin & Soviets take over
Disband Constituent Assembly
“All Power to the Soviets!”

3. New Economic Policy (NEP)
Promotion of Agriculture
Promotion of Industry
“Kulaks” and speculation
“one step backward, two steps forward”

4. Lenin’s Death Lenin’s Stroke (1922) and death (1924) Body on display
Triumvirate:
Stalin
Bukharin
Trotsky

5. Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) Yosef Vissarionovich Dzugashvili Georgian
Nom de guerre: “man of Steel,”
Georgian
Mother’s influence leads to Orthodox seminary education
Leads Soviet Union by 1928

6. Stalin and Industrialization
the “Great Leap Forward”
Socialism in One Country
Massive collectivization of agriculture

7. The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33
a Terror-Famine?
Ukrainians
Don Region
De-kulakization
The Law of Socialist Property
“when you cut down a forest, splinters will fly”

8. Massive scope: 8 million Soviet citizens in labor camps by 1939
The Purges
mechanics of a purge
“confession”
the show-trial
punishment
Massive scope: 8 million Soviet citizens in labor camps by 1939
euphemisms: “wreckers, saboteurs”

9. Life in the Gulag internal exile the possibility of escape
forced labor
living conditions
trial and re-trial