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1. Pages 724-729 By: Maddi Oliver 2nd hour World History

2. Stalin Gains Power. • The main Chief Contenders were Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. • Trotsky- a Markist thinker, architect of the Bolshevik Revolution. • Stalin- 1990 joined the Bolshevik underground and changed his name from Djugshvili to Stalin which mean the man of steel. • Organized most of the robberies to fund the group. • 1920’s became general secretary of the group • Lenin’s death set off a power struggle between the Communist powers. • Trotsky believed they should start a worldwide revolution and Stalin believed in building up socialism in the home first. • After Stalin won he put all of his followers in top ranks of the group and Trotsky was Stripped of his.

3. The Five-Year Plans. • In 1928 Stalin revealed his first of many Five-Year plans. • His first plan was to build big industries, improve transportation, and increase farm output. • The Soviet Union Created a Command Economy. Under the command economy the government would run all businesses. Verses in capital economy all businesses would be privately owned. • Between 1928-1939 large factories, Hydroelectric power stations, and huge industrial complexes were spreading a crossed the Soviet Union. • After all the changes the standard of living still remand poor. • During this era the economy failed majorly.

4. Revolution in Agriculture. • Stalin also took control of agriculture. • He forced peasants to give up their land, and live on state owned farms or on collectives (a big state owned farm that many groups of peasants worked on.) • They could keep personal belongings but had to turn over all farm animals and anything else related to the farm into the government. • On Collectives the government provided anything need to farm that land such as: tractors, fertilizers, and better seeds. • The government needed more food to supply the people working in the factories and who live in the city. • peasants reacted by killing farm animals, destroying tools, and burning crops. • Stalin targeted the Kulaks who were wealthy peasants< they took their lands and sent them to labor camps. In the labor camps many were executed or died from overwork. • The peasants revolted by only growing enough food for themselves. The government in response to all grain and left them to starve. • Millions of people died from a famine that continued from the government take all the grain.

5. The Great Purge. • Stalin became worried of what the opposing group was planning against him. • In 1934 Stalin launched the great purge. • With this he and police targeted old activist supporters, army heroes, industrial managers, writers, and ordinary citizens. • The people were charged with many crimes from counterrevolutionary plots to failure to reach production quotas. • Studies show that 4 million people were charged with a crime and of those 800,000 were executed.

6. Foreign Policy. • After the revolution Lenin organized a group called the Communist International or Comintern. • It helped out communist groups, and to rise up against the imperialist powers. • During the 1920’s the Soviet Union won back the western countries and increased their trade with them.