New Economic Policy: Leonid Brezhnev Analysis

Q1. New Economic Policy: Leonid Brezhnev During the 1920’s, Vladimir Lenin was in charge of what he had recently renamed, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This was a time of distress for the people of the USSR. Famine had struck and the majority of the population was starving in many cases it even led to death. Lenin’s response in aiding the economic situation was to implement his “New Economic Policy”. Although Lenin’s ideologies truly lied in communism, he was willing to leave his ideologies behind for the good of Communist Russia. The New Economic Policy was more of a capitalist policy as it allowed for some private ownership of small businesses and it reformed agricultural policies (Wood,5,5). Leonid Brezhnev was a communist …show more content…
He was born in Germany, in 1818, and died 65 years later, in 1883. During his life, he wrote many philosophies but he is most known for his work on the Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto explains Marx’s world view and his predictions for how society will progress to one day naturally become communist. Marx grew up in a time were capitalism was just beginning to emerge. Marx’s saw the flaws in the system and wanted to find a way so that there would not be class system, land and business would be publically owned and everyone would be treated well and act for the good of the society. He did not like the way that the bourgeoisie class, the land and factory owners, mistreated the proletariat class, the industrial laborers. Although Marx wanted the end result to be a communist society, he believed that society would naturally progress through from an agrarian society, to a capitalist society, then to a socialist society, and then finally to a communist society. He did not want to lead the people he believed that the people will rise and overthrow the government when were ready too even if this meant it would happen long after his …show more content…
Since the fact that Stalin was obsessed with power and security, I think that if the Limited Test Ban Treaty was proposed to Stalin he would have signed it because by signing it, it would have meant that he was able to control the development of the nuclear weapons better. Also, I believe that he would have agreed with the clause that states that a country with nuclear capabilities is not allowed to disclose any nuclear secrets with a country that does not have nuclear capabilities because it would of assured that no more countries can threaten the well being of Soviet Russia. Although, I do not think that Stalin would of enjoyed caving into the pressures of the western