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Cult of personality. Stalin became omnipresent by means of propaganda. There were pictures of him everywhere. He was the father, the husband, the grandfather of
every Russian. This presence was reinforced by the
World War II.
The Party. During Stalinism, the only way to be promoted, th
e only way of being
someone was by strict adherence to the ideas of the
Communist Party
The terror
. Stalin set up a secret service network that contr
olled every citizen of the
Soviet Union. -
In 1929 Stalin began collectivising all farms (kolkhos). Another
type of collectivisation were the state farms (sovk
hos): owned completely by the state,
peasants worked as labourers, so they received wage
s even if the farm did badly. -
A Five-Year Plan set targets for all basic industri
al factories and workers. They started in
1928. -
Trostky was isolated and thrown out of the Communist Party (1927)
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Each republic had a government but they all had to be co
mmunist, and the system was run
centrally by the Politburo (senior council) -
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The Bolsheviks expected communist revolutions to br
eak out all over Europe but, except for a
small one in Germany, they did not -
In 1921 Lenin introduced a New Economic Policy to r
estore order and increase prosperity
after the chaos of Revolution, Civil War, and War
Communism. -
White Russians:. The counterrevolutionary elements,
The Red Army. At the beginning of the civil war Len
in asked Leon Trotsky, a young
Bolshevik leader, to create a new army from the Red
Guards, an army of workers.
Trosky created one of the best armies in history th
rough discipline, organization and
ideology. Futhermore, war communism was introduced.
This meant the nationalization
of industry, the collectivization of lands’ and req
uisition of all rural production. -
In 1917 Russia happens to have a provisional status
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The bourgeois wanted a liberal state and that the lands were private property
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The Tsar created a parl
iament called the Duma with the
promise of a more democratic government, but this d
id not happen -
In 1905 Russia ́s
defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion -
He wanted:
the end of the capitalist war.
power for the soviets: elected committees of worker
s, peasants and soldiers.
A revolution against the Provisional Government as
soon as possible (he adapted
Marx ́s ideas to the Russian context, this was calle
d marxismleninism
