lenin’s russia
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Lenin’s Russia. Lenin Seizes power & builds an Empire 1917-1924. Reform Movement in Russia. Existed long before the Revolution began in 1917 1891-92 famine produced “social awakening” among educated classes People, however, did not agree on the type of change needed - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Lenin’s Russia
Lenin Seizes power & builds an Empire
1917-1924
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Reform Movement in Russia
• Existed long before the Revolution began in 1917– 1891-92 famine produced “social awakening” among educated classes
– People, however, did not agree on the type of change needed
• Duma included “moderates” seeking a constitutional monarchy
• Czar rule was destined to change => yet the outcome of the revolution was unpredictable in 1917
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Bolsheviks• What: Russian Marxist group
• Leader: Vladimir Lenin
• Goal: communist revolution in Russia
• How: have a small group of committed revolutionaries force radical social/political change on Russia
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What is Marxism? (Reading…)
Means of production
Private Property
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Fall of Czar Rule
March 1917: Nicholas II steps down, family executed 1918
March 1917: Textile workers strike in Petrograd
Leaders of Duma form Provisional Government
Soviets are formed (local councils consisting of workers, peasants & soldiers)
April 1917 Lenin returns to Russia
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“All Power to Soviets”
Lenin promises a new way to govern:
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Lenin Seizes Power
• Lenin and his Bolsheviks seize power in November 1917– Lenin seizes power through violence (at gunpoint)
– He then moved to ruthlessly destroy opposition
• Lenin distributes land to peasants and factories to workers– Will Marxism work?
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What is to be done?
• Primary Source Reading
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Lenin takes power in 1917
Russia falls into Civil War 1918-20
Signs treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
TIMELINE
15 million people die! (war, famine, disease)
Economy destroyed!
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Economic Reforms
New Economic Policy 1921
Encouraged foreign investment
Allowed some Capitalism
Lenin is victorious in Civil War 1920
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Political Reforms
1922 named Russia the USSR
Organized Russia into self-ruling Republics
(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Bolsheviks rename party the Communist Party
Became a dictatorship of the Communist Party
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Lenin dies in 1924
53-Years old
Who would take his place?
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Joseph Stalin
Power StruggleLeon Trotsky
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