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06 THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION, Garazi García Anturejo, image, image,…
06 THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION
THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION
emergence of counterrevolutionary armed 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
Russia’s exit from the war
the announcement that the debts contracted by the tsar would not be paid
Harmful for the triple entente
several countries to intervene militarily in Russia to end the revolution
The British, Americans, French and Japanese sent troops to support the Russian counterrevolutionaries in a civil war
1918-1923 fought by two groups:
Reds
the revolutionary government
Whites
counterrevolutionaries
THE SOVIET STATE
revolutionary institutions were consolidated and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or the Soviet Union was formed in 1922
economic situation
was a policy called War Communism
The state militarised industry, seized food and imposed forced labour
Most people went hungry and protests spread
the dictatorship
To control the situation, the government consolidated a one-party dictatorship
The Congress of Soviets was controlled by the Bolsheviks
he Secret Police, the Cheka, persecuted dissidents, critics and counterrevolutionaries
At the end of the civil war
the economic situation was critical
solution
New Economic Policy (NEP)
mixed system combining elements of capitalism and socialism
There was a remarkable economic recovery
led to the emergence of wealthy agricultural owners known as kulaks
the electrification plan of the Soviet Union was carried out
Lenin died in January 1924
the first stage of Soviet history was closed
He warned about the problems that could arise with two of the most important members of the Soviet Government, Trotsky and Stalin
Garazi García Anturejo
