IB History Topic Consolidation and Maintenance: Stalin's Nature and Extent of the Opposition Revision Notes (SL/HL)

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Nature and extent of the opposition

As we have already seen, Stalin saw opposition everywhere, but that doesn’t mean opposition was real.
According to historians like Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Conquest, people in the USSR hated Stalin, but there were no channels for them to express themselves.
Stalin faced (or considered) opposition from within the party and from a particular group within the peasantry, the kulaks.
The opposition within the party was neutralized or eliminated during his rise to power and the Great Purge.

Note

See the section on Methods in the emergence to power and the one on Use of Terror.

Note

Who Were the Kulaks?
- Kulak (originally): affluent peasants with more land/livestock in late Imperial Russia
- Under Stalin: term became politicized, labeling peasants resisting grain requisition, hiring labor, or holding surplus
- Portrayed as class enemies of socialism and the proletariat
- Fitzpatrick: term was arbitrary, inconsistent, and a “floating signifier” to justify repression
- Used to stigmatize a broad section of rural society

Peasant Resistance and Dekulakization

Widespread peasant resistance to collectivization, seen as a return to serfdom

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Nature and extent of the opposition

As we have already seen, Stalin saw opposition everywhere, but that doesn’t mean opposition was real.
According to historians like Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Conquest, people in the USSR hated Stalin, but there were no channels for them to express themselves.
Stalin faced (or considered) opposition from within the party and from a particular group within the peasantry, the kulaks.
The opposition within the party was neutralized or eliminated during his rise to power and the Great Purge.

Note

See the section on Methods in the emergence to power and the one on Use of Terror.

Note

Who Were the Kulaks?
- Kulak (originally): affluent peasants with more land/livestock in late Imperial Russia
- Under Stalin: term became politicized, labeling peasants resisting grain requisition, hiring labor, or holding surplus
- Portrayed as class enemies of socialism and the proletariat
- Fitzpatrick: term was arbitrary, inconsistent, and a “floating signifier” to justify repression
- Used to stigmatize a broad section of rural society

Peasant Resistance and Dekulakization

Widespread peasant resistance to collectivization, seen as a return to serfdom

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Paper 1 - Rights and Protest6 subtopics

Paper 1 - Conflict and Intervention6 subtopics

Paper 2 - Independence Movements5 subtopics

Paper 2 - Emergence and Development of Democratic States5 subtopics

Paper 2 - Authoritarian States7 subtopics

Paper 2 - Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars4 subtopics

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Paper 3 - History of Europe18 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of the Americas18 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of Asia and Oceania18 subtopics

IB History Consolidation and Maintenance: Stalin's Nature and Extent of the Opposition Notes

Paper 1 - The Move to Global War6 subtopics

Paper 1 - Rights and Protest6 subtopics

Paper 1 - Conflict and Intervention6 subtopics

Paper 2 - Independence Movements5 subtopics

Paper 2 - Emergence and Development of Democratic States5 subtopics

Paper 2 - Authoritarian States7 subtopics

Paper 2 - Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars4 subtopics

Paper 2 - The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries4 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of Europe18 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of the Americas18 subtopics

Paper 3 - History of Asia and Oceania18 subtopics

Nature and extent of the opposition

Peasant Resistance and Dekulakization

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Nature and extent of the opposition

Peasant Resistance and Dekulakization

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