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Lenin In Charge (1917-1924): A Whole New Russia!!. Lenin Promises A New Day!. Land! Bread!. 1917: Lenin’s Decree on Land - Land to be redistributed to the people!. Peace! Russia Gets out of WWI!. 1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russian Empire becomes: U.S.S.R. Giotin : guillotine
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Lenin In Charge (1917-1924): A Whole New Russia!!
Land! Bread! 1917: Lenin’s Decree on Land - Land to be redistributed to the people!
Peace! Russia Gets out of WWI! 1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Giotin: guillotine Traktorina: tractor Arvil: army of Vladimir Lenin Dinamit: dynamite Engelina: Engels Melor: Marx, Engels, Lenin, October Revolution Parizhkommuna: Paris Commune Proletkarii: proletariat Robesper: Robespierre Marlen: Marx, Lenin Ateist: Atheist Barrikada: Barricade New names! Revolutsia - RevolutionLenina - Lenin; Stalina - Stalin; Oktyabrina - from October - month of Revolution in 1917; Vladlena - from VLADimir iLich LENin; Ninel - Lenin inside out.
Lenin creates single-party dictatorship • - Early 1918: Lenin holds elections for a new Parliament to be known as the Constituent Assembly. • Lenin’s Bolsheviks, renamed the Communist Party, runs in the elections • However, the Communists only won 175/700 seats • So, Lenin shuts down the Constituent Assembly after only one day! • All political parties EXCEPT the Communist Party are banned by Lenin • Single-party dictatorship begins
Peace? • Russian Civil War (1918-1922) • Red Army (commies) fight anti-communist White Army • Leon Trotsky: placed in command of Red Army
Land? Bread? War Communism • gov’t seizes control of land • Food is severely rationed to support Red Army • By 1921 @ 4 million Russians are dead from famine and war "Sometimes mothers and fathers feed their children human meat as a last resort. Sometimes a starving family eats the body of one of its junior members. Sometimes parents at night seize part of a body from a cemetery and feed it to their children”.
Oppression… 1921: Kronstadt Revolt • Angry sailors angry about war communism and civil war revolt • Trotsky orders Red Army to squash revolt • Hundreds of sailors killed and hundreds executed for rebellion
Post-civil war: A New Hope? New Economic Policy • Early 1920s • Soviet gov’t on brink of collapse • War communism ended • NEP: retreat from total communism to placate masses • Small businesses allowed • Peasants allowed to control own crops and sell them
BUT… 1924: Lenin dies - Leaving U.S.S.R. essentially a communist dictatorship