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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