23: Riding The Storm Out

The segments of this dynamomic lecture are:

• 23a: Riding The Storm Out
• 23b: Cult of Personality
• 23c: The Time of Terror
• 23d: The Great Patriotic War
  
• 23e: Conclusions
  

 Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events:

Lenin's Political Testament, Socialism in One Country, Permanent Revolution, League of the Militant Godless, Leningrad, kulaks, Five-Year Plan, collectivization, NKVD, Great Purges, GULag, Spanish Civil War, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Blitzkrieg, Winter War, Operation Barbarossa

Questions for consideration:

1. What political and economic concerns provoked Stalin's genocidal murders from 1929-1932?
2. How did the terror of 1934-1939 differ, in target and scope, from the terror of 1929-1932?
3. What were the Soviet Union's motivations for joining (of all things) the Anti-Comintern Pact?