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15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s
The Making of Modern Ukraine
How to Build Socialism in One Country
The trick to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is that it was never meant to be a Russian revolution. It only became a Russian revolution in retrospect after it failed to be a world revolution. So, you have a world revolution which doesn't happen, and you have then the need for socialism in one country. Now that there's not a world revolution, how do you carry out your own blueprint on the scale of the Soviet Union? You barricade yourself off from the rest of the world. And as we're going to see over the course of this lecture, these borders will become stronger and stronger and stronger. One way to do this is to not let the outside in, not let the bourgeois
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