Russian RevolutionLenin and StalinCommunist policies

Strong pressures for change :A lot of reforms in the Crimiean War

( also the emancipation of the serfs ( Alexander 2nd )

Industrialization in western European lines Russia

Another military defeat by Japan lead to a revolution

Czar Nicholas 2nd had to introduce Russia‘s first constitution

The Duma ( Parliament) was to limit the power of the Czar but it didn‘t help

Then Russia entered in the World War really poor prepared

By the end of 1915 over two million Russian troops had been killed

Now the people woho supported the regime was asking themselves questions

Early 1917 a lot of troops abandoned

Duma is now the provisory government (supported by the public opinion)

Russians are disappointed from their government

March 1917: Czar should abdicate

Duma=Provisional government Soviets who were involved in the

revolution of 1905 now reappeared They had no legal standing Workers looked for their leader shipSoviets (Soviet of Workers’ and

Soldiers’ Deputies) Then Russia won the war and was

reorganize as a democratic state

Lenin wants to have that the Bolsheviks support the Soviets as the true government

Lenin saw the circumstances in Russia and he deal with them

Marxism By November: 300 of the 650

delegates chosen an All-Russian Congress of Soviets

Scheduled to meet on November 7th 1917 were Bolsheviks supporters

By mid-1917 the situation was deteriorating at the front and at the home

The whites were anti-Bolshevik supporters of the former Tsarist government, landowners and generals

When the Brest-Litovsk signed in the west was very anti-Lenin

The white army was never a united force

they fought separate campaigns against Trotsky’s Red Army who were organized and concentrated in the industrial areas.

50,000 Russians died as a result of raids by the CHECHA (a secret police force who organized the Red Terror)

War Communism kept the Red Army fully supplied

Population suffered because of this policy

Lenin realized the extent of the damage to the people and institutes his New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1921.

He Allowed some private trade, and ownership of some land

relaxing of war communism Reds won the Civil war and had to

rebuild Russia Russia signed the Treaty of

Rapallo in 1922 (secret Russian German agreement)

the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was renamed by Russia in 1922

Leningrad was renamed by Petrogard

The government was communist. It included elected Soviets, a

Supreme Soviet and a council of ministers

As a result Lenin has achieved his dreams

He died in January 1924

Wladimir Iljitsch Uljanow (called Lenin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70zy6Yet6Nc

first used in 1924stalin used it first --> wasn't the

founder --> he was rather a defender of the Marxism

people thought it was the international communistic action

it first was a party founded in the 1920s

called Bolshevik , founded by Leninfirst he defended the Leninismmost important for the Stalin was the

Socialismafter people spoke about two

different topics thought that Stalinism made more sense and were more academically

After the first world war ended there was the contract of Versailles and the allies wanted Germany to pay for everything they damaged and all those things in the first world war

After Hitler came to power the German paid less and less of what they should.

There were also all communistic people killed

That was the totally difference between Germany and Russia

They were called as the enemy of the Bolsheviks

In the contract of Versailles there were lots of land taken away from the Germans

Hitler wanted to get that back. indirect declaration of war to Russia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isUWdCD2yvc

Internet:BBC Historyhttp://www.gmu.edu/

departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/his1e.htm

http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/history20/unit1/sec6_08.html

Wikipedia.com Youtube.com http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=70zy6Yet6Nc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isUWdCD2yvc

Books: The West and the

World (Arthur

Habermann/ Adrian Shubert)