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THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION - Coggle Diagram
THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION
THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION
Economic situation in Russia was chaotic
Opposition to the revolutionary decrees
Growing power of the Bolsheviks
Counterrevolutionary armed groups
Foreign powers saw the October Revolution = threat
Communist society without social classes
Russia’s exit from the war
Debts contracted by the tsar would not be paid
Soviets intention to extend the revolution
Several countries to intervene militarily in Russia
British, Americans, French and Japanese
Sent troops to support counterrevolutionaries in
civil war
Two groups
White Army
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Red Army
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THE SOVIET STATE
Political point
Civil war helped to consolidate the regime
Counterrevolutionary forces
By former aristocrats and landowners
Regain power and wealth
Presence of foreign armies
Perceived as an aggression
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) =
Soviet Union
formed1922
Economic point
War Communism
State militarised industry
Seized food
Imposed forced labour
Disastrous for the people
People went hungry and protests spread
Government consolidated a
one-party dictatorship
Congress of Soviets controlled by
Bolsheviks
Secret Police (the Cheka)
Persecuted dissidents, critics and counterrevolutionaries
Economic situation was critical
New Economic Policy
(NEP)
Mixed system: capitalism + socialism
Remarkable economic recovery
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THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (CPSU)
Social Democratic Party was transformed
Communist Party of Russia
USSR already formed
Renamed Communist Party of the Soviet Union
