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Bolshevik Revolution
KEY PLAYERS: Lenin, Soviet government, Bolsheviks and Trotsky
DESCRIPTION: A planned attack, the Bolsheviks arrested the provisional government with Trotsky.
SIGNIFICANCE: This revolution is a major milestone to bringing Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power, They gain control of Petrograd and Moscow. -
Treaty of Brest-Litvosk
KEY PLAYERS: Lenin and Germany
DESCRIPTION: A treaty with Germany should be made, Russia is willing to exchange peace for land. Lenin knows, Russia is still too young for war.
SIGNIFICANCE: Try to avoid world war by making peace with Germany, which in turn gives Germany a one front war. -
War Communism
KEY PLAYERS: Lenin
DESCRIPTION: To force rationing and state ownership of industry.
SIGNIFICANCE: Introuces the New Economic Plan. -
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Civil War
KEY PLAYERS: Reds (Bolsheviks), Whites ( tsar's army, bourgeousie)
DESCRIPTION: Whites get strength from Allies while reds victory due to control of industry and military supplies.
SIGNIFICANCE: Would decide if Communism would rule Russia, Trotsky gets most of Russia behind communism. Known as USSR. -
New Government
KEY PLAYER: Lenin, Bolsheviks, Trotsky and Soviets
DESCRIPTION: Lenin sets up his new government, and sets idealistic goals for Russia. Decides that war should be ended immediately, and peasants should seize the land.
SIGNIFICANCE: Lenin has full control as leader and takes his first steps toward communism. -
New Economic Policy (NEP)
KEY PLAYERS: Lenin
DESCRIPTION: The NEP gave access to some private trade and capitalist idea. Lenin had to be flexible in his marxist views to improv production.
SIGNIFICANCE: Lenin created some capitalist production in Russia to flourish through the NEP. -
Treaty of Rapallo
KEY PLAYERS: U.S.S.R and Germany
DESCRIPTION: Agreed that the USSR would manufacture illegal war mateials for Germany, forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles.
SIGNIFICANCE: Germany and the USSR became close, and in exchange Germany gave steel manufacturing. -
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Five Year Plan #1
KEY PLAYERS: Stalin
DESCRIPTION: To force industrilization, by using a command economy, collectivization, and heavy industry.
SIGNIFICANCE: Radically improved productin, however caused the russian's to suffer. Failures on the plan were always blames on subservises and never unrealistic goals. The Gulags (forced labour camps) also grew in number and would become a permanent fixture in Russian society. -
Kellogg- Briand Pact
KEY PLAYERS: USSR and USA
DESCRIPTION: Decide to denounce war as a method of solving disputes.
SIGNIFICANCE: Try to make peace and start normalization. -
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Normalization
KEY PLAYERS: USSR, the other countries.
DESCRIPTION: Recovering fromthe disastrous effects of the First World War and the Civil War, the USSR starts to socialize more with the outside world.
SIGNIFICANCE: Startes to create peace treaties and non aggression pacts with other European countries, joins the League of Nations, -
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Five Year Plan #2
KEY PLAYERS: Stalin
DESCRIPTION: The second Five Year Plan, proved to be too severe and had to be modified in 1934.
SIGNIFICANCE: Stalin feeling the pressure from party officials begins his Purges, to kill of all of the old gaurd who had been instrumental in the 1917 revolution. -
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The Purges
KEY PLAYERS: Stalin
DESCRIPTION: The OGPU was renamed the NKVD and became Stalin's instrument for removing his enemies. Old heroes of the revolution were charged with treason and executed for "plotting to overthrow the government" -
League of Nations
KEY PLAYERS: USSR and the Allies
DESCRIPTION: USSR joins the League of Nations to protect herself from the rising power of Germany and Japan. -
The revision of the 2nd Five Year Plan
KEY PLAYERS: Stalin
DESCRIPTION: Due too the harshness of the first plan, it had to be modified in 1934. This revision was the result of the mini revolt amongst party officials against harshness of the first plan.
SIGNIFICANCE: The Purges begin.
