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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- The Russian Civil War 1918-1922 by David Bullock
- “War Communism to NEP: The Road from Serfdom” by Sheldon Richman describes the beneficial impact of the reinstitution of free exchange and property rights in Russia in the 1920s.
- Wendy McElroy’s article “A Webb of Lies” discusses the cover-up of Soviet crimes abetted by Western intellectuals.
- “What Is Fascism?” by John T. Flynn
- “Mises on Fascism, Democracy, and Other Questions” by Ralph Raico
- “Hitler’s Economics” by Lew Rockwell
- “The Source of Hitler’s Success” by Ludwig von Mises
Fascism and the Road to World War II – Quiz
- Identify the two sides in the Russian Civil War.
- Identify at least three of the members of the original Politburo.
- Explain how Stalin changed the USSR’s economic policy once he seized power.
- Explain the basic tenets of fascism.
- Identify Adolf Hitler’s major policy goals upon coming to power in Germany.
- Explain the process by which Hitler undermined and revised the Treaty of Versailles between 1936 and 1939.
- Whites and Reds
- Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin, Joseph Stalin
- He ended the New Economic Policy and reinstituted central planning with a bias toward developing heavy industry. This included the collectivization of agriculture.
- Socialist economics, hyper-nationalism, and an appeal to traditional institutions such as the army
- repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles, autarky for Germany, and eastward expansion for the acquisition of “living space” for the German nation
- 1936—remilitarization of the Rhineland; 1938—occupation of Austria; 1938—occupation of the Sudetenland; 1939—occupation of Czechoslovakia; 1939—invasion of Poland