S.S. Tutorial
Just wanted to say thanks to Brett Mazza for submitting this to me, as I was unable to attend the tutorial today. YOU ROCK! :)
SS Tutorial
- Order #1
- Asked soldiers to stop obeying their commanding officers
- Call them by a different name (Mr.)
- Function of order was to undermine czar’s control over military
- Written by the Petrograd Soviet
- Asked soldiers to stop obeying their commanding officers
- Reading #15 (Verdict Against Pyatakov)
- Implies innocent workers were tried on bogus, trumped-up charges
- Siding with Trotsky
- Attempting to overthrow the government
- Demonstration of public news
- Implies innocent workers were tried on bogus, trumped-up charges
- War Communism
- Goal – to win the Civil War
- Military draft
- Food requisitions
- Forced labor
- Ended in 1921 with the establishment of the NEP, 10th Party Congress
- 2nd Party Congress
- Split social democratic party between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
- “What is to be done?” is voted on
- 10th Party Congress
- Khronsted
- NEP
- 20th Party Congress
- Khrushchev gives “secret speech”
- Beginning of Destalinization
- “Socialism in one country”
- Policy associated with Stalin
- Wanted international recognition of new country – USSR
- Abandon Lenin’s ideas of permanent revolution, international revolution
- Commterm – 1919
- Sent agents around to different parts of the world to assist any countries who were setting up or trying to set up socialist governments
- Policy associated with Stalin
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Responsible for the downfall of Khrushchev
- Mendelstein Poem – “We Live, Not Feeling”
- What it’s like to live under Stalin, terror
