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Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 5: Revolutions
Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
Unit 7: Global Conflict
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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
Note
5.0(2)
AP World History: Modern Study Guides
AP World History: Modern Ultimate Guide
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 5: Revolutions
Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
Unit 7: Global Conflict
Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 9: Globalization
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