1. The Soviet Experiment: Stalin’s Revolution
HST 112
Lecture 15 (3/15/04)
Ethan Pollock

2. Prologue: Alternative Modernities
EUROPE AFTER 1919
I. Fascism and Nazism
II. Communism
III. Challenges to Liberal Democracy

3. The Soviet Experiment
I. LENIN: Civil War, War Communism and the New Economic Policy (NEP)
II. Stalin’s Rise to Power
III. The Great Break: Collectivization and Industrialization
IV. The Cultural Front
V. The Purges

4. I. Lenin (ruled 1917-1924) A. Civil War and War Communism
Timeline:
Civil War
1924 Death of Lenin
NEP
The Great Break
Famine
Great Purges
A. Civil War and War Communism
B. New Economic Policy (NEP)
C. Repression
D. Lenin’s Death

6. II. Stalin’s Rise to Power
Timeline:
Civil War
1924 Death of Lenin
NEP
The Great Break
Famine
Great Purges
A. General Secretary: The Party Bureaucracy
B. Trotsky and the “Left Opposition”
C. Bukharin and the “Right Opposition”

10. III. The Great Break
Timeline:
Civil War
1924 Death of Lenin
NEP
The Great Break
Famine
Great Purges
A. Collectivization and the Elimination of “Kulaks” as a class
B. Industrialization and the Five-Year Plans
C. Modernization and the Planned Economy

12. IV. The Cultural Front A. Cultural Revolution B. Upward Mobility
Timeline:
Civil War
1924 Death of Lenin
NEP
The Great Break
Famine
Great Purges
A. Cultural Revolution
B. Upward Mobility
C. Cult of Personality
D. Propaganda

15. V. The Purges A. Kirov Assassination B. Show Trials C. The GULAG
Timeline:
Civil War
1924 Death of Lenin
NEP
The Great Break
Famine
Great Purges
A. Kirov Assassination
B. Show Trials
C. The GULAG
D. Terror and the Soviet System