Chapter 27 - The Interwar Years: The Challenge of Dictators and Depression

Marxist Leninist theory

The had far greater worldwide appeal than Fascist nationalism and Nazi hatred.

State Planning Commission

The , or Gosplan, established output targets in all areas of economic activity and endeavored to arrange the economy to reach them.

Italy

The Bolsheviks faced an economy that was far less industrialized than that of or Germany.

1928

Stalin's organizational vehicle for industrialisation, beginning in , was a succession of five- year plans.

Popular Front

Despite significant opposition from corporate and conservative organizations, the implemented substantial social and economic changes including as the forty- hour workweek, paid vacations for employees, and mandatory arbitration of labor disputes.

massive economic disturbance

The Gosplan caused by constructing power plants, steel mills, and increasing mine production.

Communist Party

The was neither a populist nor a nationalist organization.

Bolshevik Revolution

The in Russia produced the most widespread and long- lasting authoritarian government of the twentieth century.

Soviet Union

From 1917 to the end of 1991, the Communist Party of the held power, and its presence shaped the political history of Europe and much of the rest of the globe in ways that no other single force did.

Popular Front Ministry

The , which took office in 1936, was France's most significant interwar political experiment.

Soviet Union

Stalin's ambition was for the to surpass the creative power of its adversaries, the capitalist countries.