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miércoles, 6 de julio de 2011

Answering questions

1) If Hitler hadn't broken the Nazi-Soviet Pact and hadn't launched Operation Barbarossa, the UUSR would've probably fought against the Allies, right?
Not really. If the pact hadn`t been broken the USSR & Germany would obviously not have fought one another. However, Nazism & Communism were as ideologically incompatible and the same way as capitalism and communism were. Stalin did not want to fight at all. In fact, he distrusted UK & France because he thought they expected USSR & Germany to tear each other to pieces in the East. This is sth he did not want.

2) Cold War: how could the Policy of Containment be carried out? We understand that the US wanted to prevent the spread of Communism, so the US adopted two approaches, right? One approach was military, the other was economic. Was the Marshall Plan the economic side of this Policy of Containment?
If by military you mean the US actually fought, with the exception of Korea & Vietnam the US did not actually fight. Never the USSR openly. If by military you mean providing military aid, personnel and advice to other countries the answer is yes.
Aid to Turkey and Greece, as promised in the Truman doctrine is economic, so is ERP (Marshall Aid).
3) WWII: Where did the Germans take the money from to rearm if they were bankrupt? Did the US provide loans to Germany? Germany was forgiven the payment of reparations. In 1923 the Dawes Plan eased conditions for Germany. So did the Young Plan 1929-30.

4) Which was the difference between Lenin's and Stalin's aims? Did Lenin want to spread Communism all over the world, and did he want the proletarian revolution that Marx & Engels had written about in, for example, the Communist Manifesto? It’s not a question of what Lenin or Stalin wanted, it’s a question of communist ideology which is by definition revolutionary and international in character.
Was Stalin a nationalist? No he was not. Communism and nationalism are ideologically incompatible. Nationalism is a bourgeois ideology from the French Revolution. Communism is internationalist. In order to consider the initial world nature of the Bolshevik Revolution you should find out what Trotsky’s aims were.
Wasn’t Stalin interested in spreading Communism to other parts of the globe? It’s not a question of his being interested or not. It’s a question of what the USSR was able to do. Reread Hobsbawm when he explains how the Bolshevik revolution took place in a country that was not manifestly ready for it according to Marxist theory. Stalin proposed the slogan “Socialism in one country” to indicate the fact that, for the time being, the USSR would not seek to spread revolution across the world. Hence his split with Trotsky

5) How did the Russian Revolution save the USSR from the Great Depression? Was it because of the Five Year Plan implemented by Stalin? Wait a second, the Bolshevik Revolution took place in 1917 and the Great Depression started in 1930. When the Slump started the Revolution was over. What “saved” the USSR was the fact that it did not have a capitalist economy. The Five-Year Plans were merely the expression of a communist economy. Think in terms of theories and ideologies.

2 comentarios:

  1. LOS ESTUDIANTES DE HUMADIDADES GANAMOS!!!
    de La Unidad Humanidades, el jueves, 07 de julio de 2011 a las 11:16

    EN LA SESION DEL CONSEJO SUPERIOR QUE TODAVIA SE ESTA REALIZANDO SE APROBO LA NULIDAD DE LOS PROCESAMIENTOS A LOS 11 ESTUDIANTES, ES DECIR QUE SE DIERON DE BAJA LOS SUMARIOS INICIADOS A LOS COMPAÑEROS. AGRADECMOS LA PARTICIPACION Y LA SOLIDARIDAD DE TODOS LOS QUE NOS BANCARON DURANTE ESTOS 10 DIAS DE TOMA DE LA FACULTAD Y EN LAS ACTIVIDADES REALIZADAS EN ESTE PERIODO.

    ESTAMOS MUY CONTENTOS DE DECIR QUE GANAMOS, SOLO FUE POSIBLE CON LA UNIDAD DE TODOS LOS ESTUDIANTES DE LA FACU CON OTRAS FACULTADES, Y CON LA SOLIDARIDAD DE MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES, POLITICOS, DE DERECHOS HUMANOS, GREMIOS DE TRABAJADORES, ETC.

    HOY HAY ASAMBLEA INTERCLAUSTROS DE HUMANIDADES EN LA QUE SE HARA UN BALANCE DE LA TOMA Y DEL TRIUNFO CONSEGUIDO, Y TAMBIEN DE COMO SEGUIR DE AHORA EN MAS, YA QUE HAY PARCIALES Y FINALES QUE RENDIR.

    LOS ESPERAMOS A TODOS/AS HOY A LAS 16 EN EL AULA 60.

    ES NECESARIO LA PARTICIPACION DE TODOS PARA DEFENDER LO CONSEGUIDO Y AVANZAR EN LA LUCHA POR LO NECESARIO.

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  2. GANAMOS EL DESPROCESAMIENTO!!!
    de Agrupación Nicolás Guillén, el jueves, 07 de julio de 2011 a las 12:05

    En la sesión del Consejo Superior de hoy a la mañana se obtuvo la nulidad de los expedientes y el DESPROCESAMIENTO DE LOS 11 COMPAÑEROS DE HUMANIDADES!!! Consideramos que esta es una gran victoria de todxs los estudiantes que apoyamos la toma durante estos días y que sienta un precedente que demuestra que en la facultad de Humanidades no se va a sancionar a nadie por luchar por sus derechos! Respecto a la OCS 822 (régimen de discplina) quedó en comisiones para que la comunidad universitaria en su conjunto elabore un marco normativo de convivencia que suplante al actual régimen de disciplina..

    Creemos que la lucha no fue en vano y que los estudiantes hemos conseguido una gran victoria, por eso es momento de que podamos levantar la toma y que todxs podamos rendir los parciales y los finales que nos quedaron.. Desde algunos sectores plantean que lo conseguido no es suficiente y que es necesario mantener la medida de fuerza en la facultad..

    Por eso vení a participar de la ASAMBLEA DE HUMANIDADES HOY A LAS 16HS EN EL AULA 60!!!



    PORQUE LOS ESTUDIANTES ORGANIZADOS PODEMOS DEFENDER NUESTROS DERECHOS Y LUCHAR POR UNA UNIVERSIDAD PÚBLICA AL SERVICIO DEL PUEBLO!!!!

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