Not only was the revolution un-Marxist in character, as David Christian discusses, it was meticulously carried out by a small group of trained revolutionaries to initiate secure control of Russia – the Military Revolutionary Committee led by Trotsky. ... These extreme authoritarian measures were necessary for developing a new coercive machinery of power. ... War Communism comprised of centralized control over both urban and rural economies with the compulsory requisitioning of grain (prodrazverstska) and the nationalization of banks, transport, and heavy industry, reinforced in Lenin'...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

Although Stalin's drastic doctrinal oscillations were completely out of character for the immovable dictator, the changes in Jewish administration were not the only exceptions in his etiology that Stalin made from WWII to his death. ... Stalin's "wildly escalated targets, menacing exhortations, recurrent crises, makeshift measures, and wasteful imbalances" were somehow effective in producing some desired results. ... "Stalin brought about the end of the NEP by the use of draconian measures." ...

• Word Count: 1534
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Although Stalin's drastic doctrinal oscillations were completely out of character for the immovable dictator, the changes in Jewish administration were not the only exceptions in his etiology that Stalin made from WWII to his death. ... Stalin's "wildly escalated targets, menacing exhortations, recurrent crises, makeshift measures, and wasteful imbalances" were somehow effective in producing some desired results. ... "Stalin brought about the end of the NEP by the use of draconian measures." ...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate