Donald, Christian, and Connor sit down to discuss the political economic conditions of the Soviet Union during the period of the New Economic Policy. Over the course of the episode, they cover War Communism, the intellectual currents and debates within the Party, the importance of the peasant question, the geopolitics of isolation, and the NEP’s long term viability.
References:
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R. W. Davies - Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev
R. W. Davies - The Socialist Offensive: The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-1930
R. B. Day - Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation
A. Ehrlich – The Soviet Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928
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