Saturday, February 15, 2014
In Soviet Russia, Blog writes You!
This reading contains quite a bit of history in just a few pages, but again it should be review for you. Consider how tumultuous Russia was from the Bolshevik revolution to the end of Brezhnev's presidency. To what extent was communism always in crisis, even during Lenin's leadership? How did the 20th century Russian leaders try to prove communism's legitimacy? How did these strategies evolve over time?
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It does seem like communism was always in crisis, even at early stages with Lenin. In many ways this is obvious. We see that one of Lenin's first policies is actually called War Communism. In this he abolished currency and private property, forced all people to abide by movement decisions, and more. He overthrew, seized and changed so many things in such a quick amount of time that chaos was inevitable. So even though communism was winning in the broad sense, it was surely in crisis in reality.
ReplyDelete"It does seem like communism was always in crisis, even at early stages with Lenin. In many ways this is obvious. We see that one of Lenin's first policies is actually called War Communism. In this he abolished currency and private property, forced all people to abide by movement decisions, and more. He overthrew, seized and changed so many things in such a quick amount of time that chaos was inevitable. So even though communism was winning in the broad sense, it was surely in crisis in reality." - Nicki Lamberti
ReplyDelete^ agreed
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