Foundations 099-10 'Russia and the Internet'
The Russians Chapter 3
Gorbachëv and Khrushchëv
Professor Robert Beard

 


  1. What sort of man is Gorbachev?
    1. open
    2. curious
    3. loves public
    4. hates inefficiency
    5. willing to experiment

  2. Descended from cossacks (grandfather Gopkolo)

  3. Descended from kulak (also Gopkolo) who volunteered for collectivization

  4. What effect the World War II have on Gorbachev and the Soviet peoples?

  5. How did Gorbachev do in school?

 

 

 

Cossacks: Peasants who fled 'to the periphery' (u krai) )rather than be indentured to the land 13th-15th centuries.

Collectivization: Stalin's program of 1929-1930 forcing all farmers and peasants into large collective farms where they owned only their homes and a small garden plot.

Kulak: A wealthy peasant who purchased his own land during the Stolypin land reforms immediately preceding the 1917 revolution. There were also 'poor peasants' and 'middle peasants'. Only the poor peasants survived Stalin's purges.

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