BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION

RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR & FOREIGN INTERVENTION

SOVIET STATE

counterrevolutionary armed groups image

communist society without social classes

debts contracted by the tsar would not be paid

detrimental to the Triple Entente allies

intention to extend the revolution to the whole world

Russian counterrevolutionaries in a civil war (1918–1923)

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Red Army image

counterrevolutionaries

backing of foreign powers

revolutionary government

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the counterrevolutionary forces

led by former aristocrats and landowners image

foreign armies was still perceived as an aggression

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) the Soviet Union

War Communism

militarised industry

seized food

imposed forced labour

one-party dictatorship

Congress of Soviets was controlled by

Bolsheviks

Secret Police, the Cheka image

solution was the New Economic Policy (NEP)

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