Early Soviet Union WebQuest
Part II
Part II
New Economic PolicyNew Economic Policy (NEP), official economic reconstruction program of the USSR from 1921 to 1928. It replaced the economic policies of war Communism (1918–21), an emergency program established by Lenin during the civil war.
First Five Year PlanIn the Soviet Union, the first Five-Year Plan (1928–32), implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods.
Permanent RevolutionThe state or condition, envisaged by Leon Trotsky, of a country's continuing revolutionary progress being dependent on a continuing process of spreading socialist revolution to other countries.
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Collectivization / Collective FarmingCollectivization was a policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms called “kolkhozes” as carried out by the Soviet government in the late 1920's - early 1930's.
Socialism In One CountryRefers to the policies adopted by the USSR in the aftermath of the failed revolutions of 1917-1923. Once it seemed unlikely to be able to spread socialism worldwide, the Soviets set about modernizing and industrializing the USSR itself.
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