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Attempted reform hit problems
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The ‘February’ Revolution of 1917
The February Revolution of 1917 was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. It was centered on Petrograd, then the capital. The revolution, confined to the capital and its vicinity and lasting less than a week, involved mass demonstrations and armed clashes with police and gendarmes, the last loyal forces of the Russian monarchy. In the last days mutinous Russian Army forces sided with the revolutionaries----->Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II -
The ‘October’ Revolution of 1917
The October Revolution was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd.
The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings. The following day, the Winter Palace , was captured. -
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The Civil War
The communists had seized power suddenly and repressed the elected National Assembly
Anti-Communist army officers were no longer fighting Germany and now they could attack the Communists
Communism gcsewanted a world revolution –the Comintern (Third International) was formed under the Bolshevik Zinoviev to promote revolution abroad and to encourage friendly governments in nearby European countries
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The New Economic Policy (NEP)
Lenin decided to change Communist policy so he reverse the War Communis and implanted the NEP. It was thought to help the small business to have their own money. -
Lenin died
Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death.
Lenin died at 18.50 hrs, Moscow time, on 21 January 1924, aged 53, at his estate at Gorki settlement.
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The First Five-Year Plan
The objective of the first Five-year plan is lift heavy industry of the USSR without resorting to the help of foreign countries. But the Soviet Union was still an agrarian country, so it must be done before a major land reform.
The collectivization of land, provided for the formation of collective farms would be considered property of the peasants. This collectivization caused conflicts between the state and the peasant proprietors especially media owners (kulaks) -
Stalin began cellectivising all farms
Food production had to be increased so Stalin began collectivising all farms but there were problems with collectivization. -
Collectivization began again
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The famine continue
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Second Five-Year Plan was started
The second plan is focused on improving the living conditions of the population and emphasized self-sufficiency, especially heavy industry, essential to war production. Industrial growth during the first ten years of planning, was spectacular: the iron and steel production quadrupled and coal for three and a half. He played a leading role in their opposition to fascism and the preparation of the Second World War. -
Purges
Purges consisted in killing lots of people because they were against Stalin. -
The Soviet union joins the League of Nations
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939
Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II; the Soviet Union was awarded land, including parts of Poland and the Baltic States. -
World War II begins
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The Soviet union is expelled from the League of Nations
The Soviet union is expelled from the League of Nations for invasion of Finnish territory -
Germany attacked
The pact was broken when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union less than two years later.
