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