1. Creating and Developing a Communist State 1917-1953
Under Lenin industrialisation was initialised by aiming to recover the economy from the toils of war and the necessary policy of War communism. NEP was Lenin's response to the economic depression caused by War communism. Shortly after the introduction of NEP the effects of War communism became evident, the great famine of 1921-22 caused some 5 million deaths. ... A precursor to Stalin's five year plans, Lenin is famously quoted in saying "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.... As a result it is nearly impossible to not see Stalin as a definin...
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