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Second World War was started
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The collectivization was almost completed, kulaks had been eliminated and the peasants were afraid of Communist powers.
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Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a personal dictatorship where the communist ideal was still alive but filtered by his powerful personality. He ruled over the USSR using three tools:
-Cult of personality
-The party
-The terror -
Stalin began collectivising all farms. Another type of collectivisation were the state farms: owned completely by the state, peasants worked as labourers, so they received wages even if the farm did badly.
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Some peasants refused this change and did not want to give up lands, especially the kulaks (richer peasants). Stalin called them enemies of the people. Around 10 million were
shot or sent to Labour Camps, many died from starva
tion or cold. -
A Five-Year Plan set targets for all basic industri
al factories and workers. -
Stalin was content for Communism to stay
within just one country for the moment. Stalin cont
rolled the party. Trotsky was isolated
and thrown out of the Communist Party. -
A new constitution established the USSR
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The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War.
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Lenin introduced a New Economic Policy to r
estore order and increase prosperity
after the chaos of Revolution, Civil War, and War
Communism. -
Russia was divided into two factions:
-white russians
-the red army -
Riots broke out in Petrograd. The
Tsar lost support and control. -
the Tsar gave
up the throne (abdicated) -
The Bolsheviks, led by Len
in, attacked the winter Palace in St.
Petersburg and seized power. -
the Tsar himself took
control of the army -
The Russian Empire joined World War I.
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Russia ́s
defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion.
