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
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–Backdrop for political power struggle after Lenin dies in 1924
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–Irony - according to Marxism, primitive capitalist accumulation, with concomitant increasing misery of the working class, was to provide the material basis for socialism
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–Right - ÒnaturalÓ socioeconomic development
–Left - violation of Marxist doctrine
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–By 1928 Stalin had a free hand and embarked on decisive, radically new policies.