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Soviet Union – Product of Russian Revolution and WWI
Flag Symbols Hammer - Hard work needed to be done by the
factory workersSickle – Hard work done by farmers
“Welcome Comrades”
Comrades
= Friends
Vladimir Lenin
Communism• Political, social and economic idea that
promotes the establishment of a classless society based on common ownership of property
• Why might people want a communist system?
Everyone “equal,” everyone works together, everyone has a housing/job!
Bolsheviks• Communist Group that over threw the
government during the Russian Revolution
• Leader – Vladimir Lenin
Bolsheviks speaking at a meeting of workers and soldiers in Petrograd in 1917
Communism Cartoon
• What is this cartoon trying to show?
Lenin sweeping away all the rich (kings, bankers, etc)
Soviets• Governing body made up of workers who
made laws
• 15 Republics that made Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)
Lenin dies in 1923Lenin’s preserved body in Leningrad
Joseph Stalin• Brutal Leader of Soviet Union 1924-1953
• Led U.S.S.R. to victory during WWII, and after
• Made everything communist – Example?
• St Petersburg = Leningrad
Post WWIIIron Curtain
Soviet Union kept conquered land, total
control of these countries --- Why?
Policies of Communism1. Autarky - Country tries to produce
everything it needs
Problems?
A. Efficiency, product quality fell
B. Food production fell, starvation of peasants
2. Rationing - Soviet Bread Line
3. “Equal” Housing
• Ugly empty Soviet housing blocs. Not for Soviet party leadership
4. Eliminating Freedoms• Total control of press/thought• Sent “enemies” to labor camps
called gulags• Tried to stop religion
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral, once the most dominant landmark in Baku, was demolished in the 1930s under Stalin.
Terrible Tragedy of “communism”casualties for the Stalinist period –
8 to 61 million
Downfall of Soviet UnionSoviet Environmental Policies - basically
non existent, huge areas ruined by the pollution
Nuclear Disaster• Chernobyl Disaster
April 26th 1986
Communism Cartoon
Cold War – Against America1. Very high Military Spending
2. Soviet Policies - People revolted against communism
1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall – end of communism, end of “Cold War”
Former Soviet Union TodayFrom One, Many
Positives of the Soviet Union1. Education increased = 90% literacy rate
2. Health care “free” and available
3. Guaranteed Employment