Source: http://soviethistory.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/336788140.jpg Above is a photograph from the meeting that officially dissolved the Warsaw Pact, an alliance between Eastern European states that existed for almost forty years and played an … Continue reading →
Week 10 Posts
Creating Choice in a Planned Economy
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Goods For The People Above is an article from Pravda that addresses the inability of the USSR’s planned economy to meet consumer needs when it came to luxuries such as … Continue reading →
Comrades' Corner, Week 7 Posts
Stalin’s Reaction to “the Iron Curtain”
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Stalin on Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech Linked above is an interview in the USSR’s state newspaper, Pravda, in which Stalin discusses Winston Churchill’s now famous “Iron Curtain” speech. This primary source … Continue reading →
Students' Choice, Week 5 Posts
Stalin’s Reflection On The First Of The Five Years
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This is Stalin’s reflection on what he called “A Year of Great Change,” the first year of the Five Year Plan. The Five Year Plan is referred to as the Great … Continue reading →
Comrades' Corner, Week 4 Posts
Rules for Being Bolshevik
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Party Membership Rules Pictured above is the 9th Congress of the Bolshevik party. The link above contains the rules to being a party member that were promulgated a year before … Continue reading →
Red Star, Week 2 Posts
Lenin’s Relationship with Democracy
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When Marx’s new brand of historiography emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, the idea was novel. Using the Hegelian dialectic (the idea that competing forces synthesize to affect to passage of … Continue reading →
Comrades' Corner, Week 1 Posts
Early Industrialization in Russia
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Above is a photograph of a factory in Russia’s city of Kamensk-Uralsky. The picture was taken in 1910. The Kamensk-Uralsky factory is one of many such buildings that bore the … Continue reading →
