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March Revolution
March Revolution key players were The Tsar, The Cossacks, and citizens. The citizens were protesting for the overthrow of the Tsar. The Tsar ordered The Cossacks to kill the protestiors. The Cossacks went against the Tsars orders and joined forces with the protestors. By The Cossacks denying the Tsars order, the revolution was successful. -
Provisional Government
In the provisional governmentnt the key players were, The Duma and The Tsar. The Duma and The Tsar teamed up and declared a provisional government. The Provisional government made sure tsarism was over, but they may have some troubles later. The Provisional government made a constitutional assembly with a secret ballot and to make strikes legal. -
The April Thesis
In the April thesis the key players were, Lenin, Bolsheviks and Soviets. Lenin arrived at Russia and was disappointed at the revolutionaries unwillingness on pushing the revolution against the provisional government. Lenin introduces the April Thesis which gave his slogan of "Peace, Bread and Land." Lenin then became the leader of the Bolsheviks and the Soviets. -
Kornilov Affair
The key players were, General Kornilov, Alexander Kerensky, and the Democratics. An alliance was formed between the social democratics, led by Kornilov, who were communists and the consitutional democratics, led by Kerensky who were liberals. The Democratics sent troops to petrograd. During this, Kornilov was betraying Kerensky, trying to remove him from his position as Prime Minister. -
Bolshevik Revolution
The key players were the Bolsheviks, The Soviets, The Trotsky and Lenin. The Bolsheviks led by Lenin, gained control of the Petrograd. A week and a half after, they took over Moscow. They joined forces with the Trotsky and The Soviets. On November 7th, the Bolsheviks took over the power of the provisional government. Lenin then led the government to follow Marxism, then Russia is no longer a republic. -
Civil War
In the Civil War the key players was the Bolsheviks. In the Civil War, the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds and the groups against them were called the Whites. The Whites never did well in areas like Petrograd, Moscow and Kiev, because they were controlled by the Bolsheviks. In the summer of 1918, the Whites thought they could take over Moscow by October but they were wrong. This was the reason for the Bolsheviks' victory. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lenin decided to open peace negotiations with Germany, against everyone. Lenin was willing to give up large pieces of land in exchange for peace with Germany. -
War Communism
War Communism started to get a definite shape. With war communism came the introduction of labour, and the handling of private trade. With all the new changes, there were unhappy peasants or civilizians who thought the new system was unfair. -
New Government
Lenin's government had two steps, the first one was that the war needed to end immediately, and the second one was that it be dealt with and the civilians should take hold of the land. In the Council of the People's Ministers, the Soviets made a new government. Within the first months there have been many changes made that led to the start of communism. -
New Economoic Policy
When it had became obvious that the War Communism would not put U.S.S.R on the road to recovery, in March 1921, the New Economic Policy was launched. The first successful compromise in Russian Government History was made. Lenin's ability to compromise with his ideals with the citizens of Russia, even if it some of it was a bit related to capitalism, played a huge part on how the policy turned out. -
Treaty of Rapallo
Lenin's agreement with Germany was a good idea for both sides. This helped to improve and fix the economic states of both countries, since both were affected by the First World War. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
This was the U.S.S.R's first appearance in western affairs. The pact strongly encouraged for security between the eastern and western nations. The U.S.S.R was able to get out of isolation, even with the fact that WW2 was blooming. -
Normalization
With the effects of the First World War and the Civil war, U.S.S.R started to build a strong military. Along with this the U.S.S.R signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact to publicize war as a way of solving disputes with other nations as well as joining the League of Nations. In Addition the U.S.S.R signed with other countries a lot of non-aggression pacts. -
The League of Nations
U.S.S.R had joined the other countries in the League of Nations. The U.S.S.R had added to the development of a Soviet Foreign Policy under the rule of Stalin. -
The Purges
Because of the shooting of Kirov by Stalin came the start of the Purges. There were secret police who were first called the OGPU and then later renamed to be the NKVD. The NKVD was Stalin's "plans" in annihilating his enemies. After Stalin lead the purge into the Red Army, he killed 1 of 5 officers in the army. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Germany and the U.S.S.R signed an agreement of neutrality even though the Soviets and the Nazis hate each other, in Moscow. They had also agreed to the division of Poland. Hitler was on war with the west, while Stalin had time to prepare. The two contries who suffered the most in the First World War, were about to begin the second world war.
