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09/24 Primary Sources ( ReRead & WRITE!) Lecture & Chronology

09/24 Primary Sources ( ReRead & WRITE!) Lecture & Chronology OBJ: How do the Bolsheviks consolidate power bet. Oct 1917-1924? Practical realities facing Russia in 1918? Do Now: Quiz 10 mins  then Conflicts with ideology? SKIM p 1 of – “Number 1” Source &

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09/24 Primary Sources ( ReRead & WRITE!) Lecture & Chronology

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  1. 09/24 Primary Sources (ReRead & WRITE!) Lecture & Chronology OBJ: How do the Bolsheviks consolidate power bet. Oct 1917-1924? Practical realities facing Russia in 1918? Do Now: Quiz 10 mins then Conflicts with ideology? SKIM p 1 of – “Number 1” Source & carefully read p. 2 demands - What do they want? - Does this conflict with Lenin’s plans?

  2. Assess the contribution of Lenin to Feb/Oct Revolutions. How Marxist (or Communist) was Lenin’s ideology? How does history view Lenin? - Who’s history? By what criteria should Lenin be Assessed? There is no revolutionary movement out of revolutionary theory (1927)

  3. 1917 February Petrograd Strikes March Tsar Abdicates July Provisional Government PM = Alex. Kerensky Conflict with Soviets October Sovnarkom– Decrees (Laws!) Council of Peoples’ Commissars November Cheka[KGB] & Red Terror 1918 January Dissolution of Assembly March Treaty Brest-Litovsk (26%) July Execution of Romanovs Beginning – Civil War  1921 Timeline of Consolidation 1917-1918

  4. Peace, Land & Bread March 8th Women’s March 1918  Sovnarkom Decrees (Laws!) Council of Peoples’ Commissars Land Decree Workers’ Control Decree Rights of the People Decree But also . . . Red Terror Cheka & Nullified elections  Splits the Rev!

  5. Josef Stalin (1878-1953) Secretary 1922 - 5 year Plans Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938) Editor of Pravda Supporter of NEP Executed Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Bolshevik Architect of Russian Marxism Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Menshevik & Red Army Deported 1929; Executed

  6. Impacts of Civil War 1918-1921 War Deaths - 300,000 KIA - 450,000 Disease Executions - 250,000 (Cheka) - 100,000 (Ukranian Jews) - by White Army Deportations Decossackization - 300,000-500,000 Émigrés (White Russians) - 2 million People & the Army are One!

  7. WAR COMMUNISM • Nationalization of manufacturing • Bolsheviks take over the factories • Price controls • Prices set by Bolsheviks • Bolsheviks control of grain (bread) • Food for most… • Forced labor • Everybody works to win

  8. Conflicts of Ideology & Reality 1918 – 1921 WW 1  Deaths &Loss of Territories Civil War  Deaths & Loss of educated elite Industry  Nonexistent incl. Agriculture Peasants  Not “ideologically” ready War Communism  Famine & resistance Factions  Provisional Govt? Breaks with SRs & other Revs. Red Terror Bolshevik Freedom – Polish Resistance 1921

  9. Famine and Disease - 1921 • 3 million deaths •  typhus • 7 million • Homeless children • 5 million deaths • Drought & famine • Volga-Urals • So what is Lenin’s reality?

  10. Tues 9/24  HW # 9 – PRIMARY SOURCES & OPVL This is revised! • Review Lenin’s on War and Revolution from Monday • Re-Read the “War Communism” section (in Box) from weekend Handout • Add the Kronstadt declaration from class today • OPVL all three sources / answer the following Qs. COLLECTED! • 1. Compare and Contrast the evolution of the Bolshevik revolution in these 3 sources. What historical circumstances must be considered (This is your O and P). • 2. Considering the origin and purpose of each –asses the value and limitation of these sources in understanding the issues surrounding and the legitimacy of the Bolshevik state.

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