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5.6 THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION
1 THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION
After years of war and months of revolutionary upheaval
Economic situation in Russia was chaotic
Likewise
The opposition of certain political sectors to the revolutionary decrees
The Bolsheviks led to the emergence
The counterrevolutionary armed groups
These groups came to control large outlying and rural regions of Russia
Foreign powers saw the October Revolution as a serious threat
It aspired to create a communist society without social classes
The Soviets made no secret of their intention to extend the revolution to the whole world.
Lenin understood that his success could only be guaranteed in this way
All these factors led to a civil war
It was fought by two groups:
Red Army
Organised by the revolutionary government
White Army
Made up of counterrevolutionaries that had the backing of foreign powers
The discipline and revolutionary motivation of the Soviet troops
Changed the course of the war
A minor of troops clashes followed in Siberia and the Far East, lasting until 1923
2 THE SOVIET STATE
After chaos and enormous hardship the USSR or the Societ Union was formed
On a economic level
The response to the war situation was a policy called
War Communism
It meant that troops always had supplies and could win on the battlefield
BUT
Most people went hungry and protests spread even among members of the Communist Party.
To control the situation
the government consolidated a one-party dictatorship.
At the end of the civil war
The economic level was critical
The solution was the New Economic Policy (NEP)
From 1921-1928
There was a remarkable economic recovery
A considerable increase in agricultural production
the emergence of kulaks
Lenin died in January 1924
These were the candidates to become the heads of the Soviet State
Trotsky
Stalin
