The ‘Great Turn’ (AQA A-Level History): Flashcards
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Great Turn timeframe & meaning
Great Turn timeframe & meaning
1927-29: End of NEP, start of rapid industrialisation
What Great Turn marked politically
What Great Turn marked politically
End of Leninist phase, beginning of Stalinism
NEP (New Economic Policy)
NEP (New Economic Policy)
1921 compromise: limited capitalism & free markets under state
Kolkhoz
Kolkhoz
People's farm: ~75 families, collective ownership
Sovkhoz
Sovkhoz
State farm: state-run, peasants as workers
1927-28 grain procurement crisis
1927-28 grain procurement crisis
25% less grain purchased; peasants accused of hoarding
% peasants on collective farms by 1928
% peasants on collective farms by 1928
Less than 5%
When NEP ended officially
When NEP ended officially
December 1927 at Fifteenth Party Congress
Bukharin's policy view (April 1925)
Bukharin's policy view (April 1925)
Encourage all peasants to enrich themselves & develop farms
R.W. Davies on NEP (1998)
R.W. Davies on NEP (1998)
Rescued economy but couldn't enable large-scale industrialisation