Apr. 20

The Russian Revolution: From Lenin to Stalin

I. The program of the new government.

A. Peace without annexations or indemnities.
B. Land turned over to village soviets.
C. Workers control of industry.
D. Nationalities given right of self-determination.
E. Constitutional convention.

II. Civil War 1918-20.

A. A war fought on many fronts, including against Allied intervention.
B. The exercise of terror.
C. Trotsky organizes the Red Army.
D. War Communism--the complete nationalization of the economy and the abolition of markets.
E. Victory by the winter of 1920-21.

III. The shift to the New Economic Policy mid-1921.

A. How to develop socialism?
B. International isolation.
C. Leadership conflicts.
D. Stalin's emergence.

IV. The Stalinist program from late 1928.

A. Grain requisitions.
B. Forced collectivization.
C. Rapid industrialization.
D. Great Terror.