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Russia 1917-1924 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Capitalism and free markers were brought back to relax state control -> peasants had a reason to produce more food.
      - once peasants and shopkeepers could work for profit, goods appeared for sale -> living standard rose
      - Factory production increased by 200% between 1920 and 1923
- - - - Lost Lithuania, Livonia, Estonia
      - Semi-independent govt were established in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia
      - Lost 1/6 of population; 27% of farm land including the ‘grain basket’ of the Ukraine; 26% of railway lines and 74% of iron ore and coal reserves.
    - - Social Revolutionaries (SRs) -> organised anti-Bolshevik coup after Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    - - British -> sent aid to help the Whites against the Reds from spreading communism
      - French -> invested money bc Bolsheviks nationalised foreign owned industry w/o compensation
      - Japanese sent troops to Vladivostok to gain territory =/= US sent troops to prevent that
    - - Russians fought to maintain the Empire (they were appalled by the break up)
      - Newly independent countries fought to keep their self-govt
    - - Hunger among people -> workers out of industrial cities
      - The Greens -> peasants armies concerned to protect their own areas -> more enemies In the war