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The Birth of the Soviet Union
The Russian Civil War
and Foreign Intervention
The revolutionary decrees and the growing power of the Bolsheviks...
Led to the emergence of counterrevolutionary armed groups
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
All these factors led several countries to intervene militarily in Russia to end the revolution
The British, Americans... sent troops to support the Russian counterrevolutionaries in a civil war
Teams
The White Army made up of counterrevolutionaries that had the backing of foreign powers
The Red Army organised by the revolutionary government
The Soviet State
Revolutionary institutions were consolidated and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union
On an economic level, the response to the war situation was a policy called War Communism
The state militarised industry, seized food and imposed forced labour
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 situation was critical
The solution was the New Economic Policy which was a mixed system combining elements of capitalism and socialism
There was a remarkable economic recovery
The emergence of wealthy agricultural owners known as kulaks
Lenin died in January 1924, and the first stage of Soviet history was closed
He expressed concern for the failure of the long-awaited world revolution and criticised the Soviet state he was leaving behind
