The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
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Three Communism and the Second Republic 1931–1934
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Published:10 April 2004
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This chapter discusses the second major phase of radicalization for the Soviet Union as Stalin consolidated his personal power and undertook new and major socialist initiatives, beginning with the collectivization of agriculture in 1928. Creating a sense of domestic and international crisis was fundamental to the new radicalization. Events of the preceding year had stimulated such an atmosphere, for in 1927 the Chinese Communists suffered catastrophe when their erstwhile Nationalist allies turned on them and drove them underground, while the Soviet government artificially contrived a war scare with Britain. By 1929, Stalin declared that the Soviet Union must develop a world-class military establishment as soon as possible to avoid being, as he put it, “crushed.”
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