1. why was lenin’s leadership crucial to the success of the russian revolution? thesis bolsheviks
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1. Why was Lenin’s leadership crucial to the success of the Russian Revolution? Thesis Bolsheviks Provisional Government Lenin’s return The Communist Party Peace, Land, Bread Starvation Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Farmland After the Revolution Civil war New Economic Policy (NEP) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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• 1. Why was Lenin’s leadership crucial to the success of the Russian Revolution?
• Thesis• Bolsheviks
– Provisional Government – Lenin’s return– The Communist Party
• Peace, Land, Bread– Starvation– Treaty of Brest-Litovsk– Farmland
• After the Revolution– Civil war– New Economic Policy (NEP)– USSR
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Provisional Government
• Gov of Russia after Czar abdicates in 1917
• Makes decision to keep fighting in the war
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Lenin’s Return
• Leader of the Bolshevik party
• Snuck into Russia by Germans
• His goal was a communist revolution against the provisional government
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The Communist Party • After Bolsheviks
successfully rebel they rename themselves the Communist Party
• Takes over the country of Russia
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Starvation
• Women in Petrograd led a citywide strike over lack of food
• Soldiers who ordered to shoot at them refused and joined the strike
• Czar Nicholas II abdicates
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Treaty of Brest Litovsk
• Slogan of the Bolsheviks
• Ends the Great War
• Russians give up territory
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Farmland
• Land taken from wealthy
• Redistributed to the poor
• Shocks capitalists in Western Europe and the USA
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Russian Civil War
• Battle between Reds and Whites from 1918 to 1920
• Whites are anyone who is against communists
• Reds successfully led by Leon Trotsky
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New Economic Policy (NEP)
• Developed by Lenin• Ironically allowed
capitalism • Peasants could sell
surplus crops on open market
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USSR
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• In honor of local councils that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution
• Tried to promote communism around the world