Bolshevik Ideology: the great industrialisation debate

ECONOMIC AND IDEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

• Anticipated that the 1st successful rev would occur in advanced industrial economy
• how it should be done split the party

LEFT: DICTATORSHIP OF INDUSTRY

• High taxes for peasants to fund
• collective farms to increase productivity
• rapid state-funded industrialisation

RIGHT: NEP

• low taxes for peasants fund gradual industrialisation
• peasants & workers - free market to ensure popularity
• slow state-funded industrialisation

THE RISE…