Stalin's Soviet Union, 192741

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Stalin's Soviet Union, 1927-41

• IDs Five-Year Plan
• kulak
• Show trials
• Fascism
• Holocaust

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I. Introduction Stalinism and Nazism

• 19th-c. Ideological Roots
• Industrial Growth and Modernity
• State Terror
• Hitler's Rise to Power
• Stalin's Rise to Power

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Collectivization and the Five-Year Plans

• Post-Lenin Leadership
• Stalin Defeats the Trotskyite Opposition (1927)
• How to finance industrialization?
• Collectivization of Agriculture
• The First Five-Year Plan (1928-32)
• Terror-famine in the Ukraine

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III. The Great Purges, 1936-38

• Congress of Victors, 1934
• The Kirov Murder
• The Terror Begins
• Why did Stalin turn to terror?

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IV. Soviet Union on the Eve of WWII

• Industrial achievements
• Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939)
• Nazi Invasion of Soviet Union
• The Human Cost