Modern History - Stalin sources

economic sources

Million Kulaks had 96 collective alexei’s that slaughtered cattle in the holodomor, giving russia the second largest share.

- Soviet Union’s share of world manufacturing rose from 5% to 17.6% → second largest share in the world (1939)

• 1 mil Kulaks dispossesed by 1929

• 96% farms collectivisde by 1940

• alexei stakhanov

• 50% slaughtered cattle

• holodomor: 6-8 mil died, 3-5 from Ukraine/Kuban

political sources

the 1936 constitution decrees against the 14 million deaths of Lenin’s general staff, war commissars and the arrested population

• 1936 constitution: appeared to be democratic but really was just power given in hands of stalin

• decree against terrortist acts: NKVD gets full control to arrest

Great Purges (1936-39):

• 14 mil deaths, 12 mil from labour camps

• Lenin’s General Staff poster - all dead except for Stalin

• All 11 War Commissars removed from their position

• 1/8 of the population had been arrested

societal sources

millions of proletariats sang chatushki, while ethnic minorities saw the posters, churches, and falsification of sources.

• 1.5 mil proletariats moved into office in 1 5yp

• chastushki: subversive songs, anecdotes, jokes about government

• greater than 30% execution of ethnic minorities

• “Lenin and Stalin” posters

• only 500 churches in 1940 (1% of 1917)

• falsification of historical sources

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