Russian Revolution

• Russia’s Problems in 1916   * Most Russian are poor     * 90% peasant farmers     * 10% factory workers in cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg   * Not enough industrialization     * Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany each produce more goods than Russia   * Russia is losing WWI because of lack of guns, cannons, and supplies for soldiers
• The Bolsheviks   * A political party in the Russian Revolution led by Vladimir Lenin that took control of the Revolution in 1917     * Pulled Russia out of WWI     * Renamed Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics       * Also known as the Soviet Union     * Made the economy a Communist system
• Vladimir Lenin - Plans   * War Communism     * 1917-1921     * Russia left WWI       * Gave Germany land     * Bolshevik government controlled farms, resources, and factories       * Strikes were illegal       * Food was taken from peasant farms and given to urban workers   * New Economic Plan     * 1921-1928       * Gave peasants their own land       * Allowed them to buy and sell in markets
• Lenin Dies   * 1924   * Joseph Stalin took over
• Joseph Stalin - Economic Plans   * Stalin’s economic policy was called the Five-Year Plan     * Forced peasants to move to large “collective farms”     * Forced workers to industrialize quickly       * Build factories and produce goods
• Joseph Stalin - Government Power   * Totalitarian Dictatorship     * One person in charge of a government that controls people’s daily lives       * Food, media, entertainment, images, and goods   * Secret Police (KGB) used to spy on people   * No freedom of speech   * Purges     * 1936 and 1938     * Stalin had millions killed because he thought they were against him and the Communist Party

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