The Party of Lenin

The Tenth Party Congress

• prodrazverstka (grain requisitioning)
• “War Communism”
• Kronstadt uprising
• Workers’ Opposition
• New Economic Policy
• “Scissors Crisis”

Building Bolshevism

• Fordson tractors
• Frederick Winslow Taylor
• Scientific Organization of Labor (N.O.T.)
• Alexei Gastev
• State Electrification of Russia (GOELRO)
• Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

Assuming Lenin’s Mantle

The Cult of Lenin

• Lenin Mausoleum
• Lenin Institute
• Lenin Levy

The Industrial Debates

• Nikolai Bukharin
• “socialist accumulation”
• “permanent revolution”
• democratic centralism
• red directors
• Joseph Stalin

Man of Steel

Stalin as GenSek

• Politburo
• Iakov Sverdlov
• Secretariat
• partiinost’

The Great Break, 1928–29

• rural soviets
• Ural-Siberian method
• Shakhty Trial (1928)
• kulaks
• colletivization
• Five-Year Plan