Marx's stages and jumping ahead
- Think about the future - more long-term - different concept of time
- Marx believed capitalism is exploitative - so at some point inevitably rise up and socialism brought in
- Problem Russia not at capitalism - still at feudalism
- So people thought the revolution would lead onto to capitalism and wait to develop
- Lenin made a speech to continue the revolution into socialism - wanted to simulate a capitalist system
- October was jumping ahead in time about 100 years
- Focus on future but they weren't sure what that was - Marx wasn't very clear
Stalin's economy
- 1928 - create an advanced economy over the next five years - Stalin's first Five Year Plan
- Idea to collect peasants into collectives
- Leading to an industrial society of the worker
- "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us..."
- Stalin said this in 1931, at the beginning of the rapid industrialization campaign. Ten years later, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
- A culture of targets
- Took the US and Britain 50 years to industrialise, it took the USSR 10
- Khrushchev set a date when communism would come - Reaching new heights - construction, technology, sputnik
Socialist people
- Creating socialist people - manual worker, educated, communal, selfless, rational
- Lenin wanted to artificially create these people
- 1961 "moral code of the builder of communism" written - set out the socialist future person
- Also negative side - removing those that don't belong - "former people"
- - Purges looking for those that didn't fit in - Stalin
Women as socialist people
- New person meant to be gender neutral
- 1920s idea that women became more like men
- Break bonds from family and work
- Backfires women start to work instead - birth rate drops
- 1930s work and household - but no politics because at home
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