goalkeeper
7th February 2013, 17:35
How popular was the "Great Break" (collectivisation, industrialisation) etc among the Soviet population?
I know "Marxist-Leninist's" are going to say yes (and if you do, point to some works and evidence)
What about Trotskyists etc and people who see the revolution as being betrayed by Stalin? Do you agree with the liberal historian view that Stalin's policies were not popular? What do you say to the revisionist historians that have tried to show that there was some popular support?
I don't want this to turn into a debate on whether or not the USSR was still revolutionary/building socialism or whatever, but popular responses to Stalin "great break". Popular support does not necessarily make it socialist or revolutionary.
I know "Marxist-Leninist's" are going to say yes (and if you do, point to some works and evidence)
What about Trotskyists etc and people who see the revolution as being betrayed by Stalin? Do you agree with the liberal historian view that Stalin's policies were not popular? What do you say to the revisionist historians that have tried to show that there was some popular support?
I don't want this to turn into a debate on whether or not the USSR was still revolutionary/building socialism or whatever, but popular responses to Stalin "great break". Popular support does not necessarily make it socialist or revolutionary.