“Socialism in One Country”
Notes:
- Power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky
- “Guns or Butter” debate = Heavy Industry(Stalins Idea) or Consumer goods
- Struggle continues for 3 years
- Stalin is successful- General secretary- he appointed people that were loyal to him throughout his rain so when it came to voting he already had the votes. He was also in charge of propaganda 1927
- Expels Trotsky from Soviet Union
- Later to be put on trial in abstentia for treason
- Hunted down and assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 (Ice pick)
- Stalin to follow “Socialism in One Country” slogan
SUMMARY :
After coming out victorious from the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky, Stalin replaced Lenin's New economic policy with the centralized command economy. Which pushed the USSR into a industrialization and collectivization power.
Quotes:
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
-Stalin
-Stalin
Subjunctive questions:
What would have happened if Stalin had wanted "fascism in one country"
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