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Historical Geography #8
Historical Geography #9
Historical Geography #10
Growth of the Russian (European) Empire
1533-1598
Russian EmpireÕs March across Siberia
RussiaÕs turn westward
Catherine II (Òthe GreatÓ)
Catherine IIÕs successors
19th century economic transformation
Fig 1.13 Industrial Geography of European Russia 1913.
Table 1.2 Russian industrial output
Table 1.3 National income in 1913: Russia & other selected countries
Table 1.4 Russian economic indicators, 1890-1914
MarxÕs Historical Materialism
Primitive communism
Slavery
Feudalism
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism

Soviet economic history
Revolution
War Communism
New Economic Policy
Industrialization Debate
Scissors crisis
Soviet Economic Development Model

Early Economic History
Civil War (1917-1920)
War Communism (approx. 1917-1921)
New Economic Policy (NEP) (1921-1928)
Industrialization Debate (1924-1928)
First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932)
Second 5-Yr Plan (1933-1937)
Third 5-Yr Plan disrupted (1938-1942)
Fourth 5-Yr Plan (1946-1950)

Early Economic History
Civil War (1917-1920)
War Communism (approx. 1917-1921)
New Economic Policy (NEP) (1921-1928)
Industrialization Debate (1924-1928)
First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932)
Second 5-Yr Plan (1933-1937)
Third 5-Yr Plan disrupted (1938-1942)
Fourth 5-Yr Plan (1946-1950)

Key Polices of War Communism
Nationalization of all businesses with 5 or more employees
Elimination of markets in agriculture and retail trade
Agriculture remained in private ownership & control
Massive spontaneous peasant land seizures and land redistribution in 1917
Industrial labor conscripted
Labor receives payments-in-kind from state stores
Requisitioned agriculture produce
Demonetized economic environment
Tax-in-kind of peasants
Practically all food stuffs rationed

Tensions during War Communism
Passive peasant resistance–>
Famine of 1921
Kronstadt Naval Revolt 1921
Lenin calls for tactical retreat 1921
NEP comes into effect in 1922

No.2 banks  & No 3 ind. enterprises
No. 4 Foreign trade & No  5 Inheritance
No. 6 large ind & No 7 real estate
No. 8 Constitution - Chapter 2
Fig 2.1 USSR about 1923.
NEP policies
Revival of private ownership & market economy
BUT small & medium industries and transport facilities remained nationalized
Reason: create incentive for peasants to produce
NEP –> spectacularly rapid increases in output, I.e., restoring production
Improve smyshka between peasants & proletariat
By 1926 significant class wealth division in countryside - kulaks
Scissors crisis worsens

No, 9 NEP
Industrialization Debates
Question of pace and source of investment
Question of sectoral distribution of investment
Question of pace of industrialization
Right - gradualist
Bukharin, Stalin, slow, emphasis on agriculture
Left - intensive industrialization, rapid pace
- Preobrazhensky, Trotsky
Backdrop for political power struggle after Lenin dies in 1924
Irony - according to Marxism, primitive capitalist accumulation, with concomitant increasing misery of the working class, was to provide the material basis for socialism
Right - ÒnaturalÓ socioeconomic development
Left - violation of Marxist doctrine
By 1928 Stalin had a free hand and embarked on decisive, radically new policies.

No. 10 - output 1913-1928
End of NEP
Deteriorating economic conditions of 1927-28
December 1929 Stalin issues collectivization orders
By March 1930 - over 50% of agriculture labor force in collectives.
Arguments for collectivization:
1) increase marketed share of agriculture production
2) shift resources from consumption into industrial investments
3) eliminate private ownership of land
4) vanquish the kulak opposition to StalinÕs regime

No. 16 - Dizzy with Success