As the country swirled around in the violent whirlpool of dishonesty, corruption, and the darker sides of Capitalism, enlightenment sparked a roaring bonfire in the souls of certain men who upset the political apple cart with their new and revolutionary ideas of Socialism. ...
If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a successful war effort. Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the...
Internationaly the European situation was a stressor, the Great War had only just ended and the revolution in Russia was still occurring. The situation at home had been altered by the war experience. ... Economic and social pressures pent up by the war were now being released into society. The example of the Russian Revolution, the brave new worlds and peaceful utopias of wartime oratory and idealism, had bred in many an unquestioning belief that peace would bring a different and far better Canada in which government would do vastly more for them than it had ever done before (Creighton, 1970...
