Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Union in the context of "Great Break (USSR)"

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⭐ Core Definition: Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Union

The cultural revolution was a set of activities carried out in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, aimed at a radical restructuring of the cultural and ideological life of society. The goal was to form a new type of culture as part of the building of a socialist society, including an increase in the proportion of people from proletarian classes in the social composition of the intelligentsia.

The cultural revolution in the Soviet Union as a focused program for the transformation of national culture in practice often stalled and was massively implemented only during the first five-year plans. As a result, in modern historiography there is a traditional, but contested, correlation of the cultural revolution in the Soviet Union only with the 1928–1931 period. The cultural revolution in the 1930s was understood as part of a major transformation of society and the national economy, along with industrialization and collectivization. Also, in the course of the cultural revolution, the organization of scientific activity in the Soviet Union underwent considerable restructuring and reorganization.

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👉 Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Union in the context of Great Break (USSR)

The Great Break (Russian: Великий перелом), also called the Great Turn, was the radical change in the economic policy of the USSR from 1928 to 1929, primarily consisting of the process by which the New Economic Policy (NEP) of 1921 was abandoned in favor of the acceleration of collectivization and industrialization and also a cultural revolution. The term came from the title of Joseph Stalin's article "Year of the Great Turn: Toward the 12th Anniversary of October" («Год великого перелома: к XII годовщине Октября») published on 7 November 1929, the 12th anniversary of the October Revolution. David R. Marples argues that the era of the Great Break lasted until 1934.

One of the factors that directly contributed to the Great Break was the war scare of 1926–27. Because Stalin and other senior leaders believed in the imminent threat of a Western invasion (particularly from the British Empire and Poland), they decided that the gradualism of the NEP years had to be replaced by a fast-paced policy, aiming to transform the country into an industrial powerhouse with a strong military.

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