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Bolshevik Revolution
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Bolshevik Revolution
A planned Bolshevik revolution that occured on Ocober 13th in which the Bolsheviks gained Petrograd and Moscow. Lenin returned on the 23rd with Trotsky and the soviets, the Bolsheviks arrested the provisional government on November 7th. Thus seizing power and giving limited resistance. -
New Government
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New Government
New Soviet governemnt entitiled the "Council of the Peoples Camnisars." Lenin and Trotsky gave its militant ideology while Stalin was a hard-working party official. Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were the main leaders of the party. The government created steps to impose comunism. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lenin opened peace and negotiations with Germany based on a young government that couldnt afford to fight a foreign war and has problems within the country. Lenin was willing to give up huge portions of land in exchange for peace. Germany built military supplies in Russia while Russia received sonstruction technology. -
Civil War
Oposition groups of the Bolsheviks (Reds) were created and were called the Whites. The Whites contained Tsar nationalists, Cossasles, Bourgeosise, Allied forces, Kuwoski and outlawed political groups. The Whites controlled most of the countryside of Russia while the Reds controlled major cities in Russia. The Reds would win the war based on controlling the heart of Russia, unity in command, leadership of Trotsky, and the determination of the working class. -
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Civil War
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New Economic Policy
The New Economic Policy showed Lenin's felxability in the launch of a new governments economic policy. The policy allowed some private trad, Pesents were allowed to sell surplus, and small factories could be "purchased" under a co-opperative agrement, thus a form of private ownership going against marxism. -
Name Change
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Treaty of Rapallo
Germany and the U.S.S.R aggred that the U.S.S.R would manufactour illegal war material for Germany forbided by the Treaty of Versallis. The U.S.S.R in return would get steel manufacturing technology. -
The First Five Year Plan
The first Five Year Plan was based on Joesph Stalin's blueprint of a command economy, collectivization, and heavy industry. -
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Five Year Plan
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
An unformal treaty by the U.S.S.R, Germany, the United States of America and 15 other nations. The treaty simply denounced war as a method of solving disputes. -
The Purges
Stalin had many purges to kill old revolutionary heros based on "plotting to overthrow the government" or plotted to kill Stalin. Decisions were made by Stalin and he ended up killing 1 out of 5 officers in the Red Army and he sended a majority of them to the gulags. This ultimatley was Stalin's greatest mistake once World War 2 started because he had little officers for the Red Army. -
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The Purges
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Normalization
The U.S.S.R joined in many foregin affairs like the Kellogg-Briand Pact, League of Nations, and numerous non-agression pacts in Europe. The U.S.S.R was consirened with having a two-front war with forces in Europe and the growing Japanese empire. -
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Normalization
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League of Nations
One of Stalin's steps in imposing normalization in the U.S.S.R by joining the League. -
Rapprochement
Definition: A reestablishing of cordial relations, as between two countries.
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Nazi- Soviet Pact
On August 23, 1939, four days after the economic agreement was signed and a little over a week before the beginning of World War II, Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. This agreement stated that the two countries would not attack each other.
