Progress Against Tradition. A Brief Course of 20th Century Russian History For Top Management

#10. Time-out?

The socialist camp headed by the Soviet Union did not appear as a relapse of the world revolution, but as a defensive reaction of Moscow after theoretical errors of the Soviet leadership and hard resistance of the West.

Progress Against Tradition. A Brief Course of 20th Century Russian History For Top Management

#9. Plus-minus 40

The Kremlin was left no choice but to return to a policy of “colonization of the village”, which was held earlier by S.J. Vitte while realizing industrialization — in other ways it was repeated in the 1930-s. But from 1947 till 1949 a series of measures were undertaken that made the peasants’ situation mournful.

Progress vs. Tradition. A Brief Course of 20th Century Russian History For Top Management

#7-8. Burning Ground

The ferocity of battles had brought Hitler to the decision, which he expressed on July, 4 at a military conference in the Belarussian town of Borisov: to destroy Moscow with its inhabitants

Progress vs. Tradition. Brief Course of 20th Century Russian History for Top Management

#3. Somewhere in Between

In September 1922 the forced expulsion of prominent representatives of Russian intelligentsia abroad began. Thus intellectual basis of regime opposition was abolished.