History 328
History of the Soviet Union since 1917
War Communism
Propaganda streetcar, 1920
History 328
History of the Soviet Union since 1917
War Communism
Propaganda streetcar, 1920
I. Socialism under the Soviets
A. Definitions
B. Design
C. Improvisation
II. Constraints in building socialism
A. scarcity
B. weak state
C. ideological coverups
III. Soviet socialism as economic system ("Communism")
A. Land reform
1. Decreed
2. In practice
B. Ban on private manufacture
C. Ban on trade
D. Seizure of surplus grain
E. Elimination of money economy
IV. Soviet socialism in an armed camp ("War")
A. Red terror
B. Hierarchy and centralization
V. Culture of militarism
Lenin in Red Square (Trotsky at lower right was later airbrushed out of this picture)
(See David King, The Commissar Vanishes(Metropolitan Books, 1997) for example.)
Music: "Budennyi march," from Russian Revolutionary Songs (Melodia)
"The voice of Lenin," from Best of Communism (Hungaroton)
