Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Revolution from above
- Theoretically, the 1917 revolution had been a revolution from below
- Bukharin and the right used this notion to argue that since the USSR was
now a proletarian society the economy should be left to develop by itself, however Stalin's economic reforms ended this thinking
- Lenin had created a central planning agency known as Gosplan, however under Stalin state control would be total so the scale and thoroughness became much greater.
- There was an important political aspect to this; he confirmed his authority over Party and government
- Stalin compared the significance his economic changes to Lenin's sanction of the October revolution
- This was obviously in order to enhance his status as a revolutionary leader