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7.4 SAQ Lenin Letter 8/11/1918

Use the passage to answer all parts of the question that follows:

Comrades! The revolt by the five kulaks [a derogatory term referring to the class of prosperous peasants] volosts [ a territorial/administrative unit consisting of a few villages & surrounding land] must be suppressed without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this because we have now before us our final decisive battle with the kulaks. We need to set an example.

  1. You need to hang – hang without fail, and do it so that the public sees – at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers.
  2. Publish their names.
  3. Take away all of their grain.
  4. Execute the hostages – in accordance with yesterday’s telegram.

This needs to be accomplished in such a way that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know, and scream out: let’s choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks.

Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this.”

Lenin

P.S. Use your toughest people for this

Telegram, August 11th, 1918 from Vladimir Lenin to fellow communist party supporters.

Question 1

Short answer

Explain one historical development after 1900 that reflects the Soviet hanging order from Vladimir Lenin.

Question 2

Short answer

Explain one way in which government economic intervention in Russia is similar to government economic interaction in the United States after 1900.

Question 3

Short answer

Explain one way in which government economic intervention in Russia differs from that in Germany after 1900.

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