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06 THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION - Coggle Diagram
06 THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION
THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION
CHAOTIC economic situation
counterrevolutionary armed groups
control large bordering and rural regions of Russia
the October Revolution
serious threat for foreign powers
Foreign intervention, why?
detrimental to the Triple Entente allies
communist society without social classes
Russia’s exit from the war
the announcement of the rejection of the debts contracted by the tsar
several countries to intervene militarily in Russia to end the revolution
Great Britain
U.S.
France
Japan
sent troops to support the Russian counterrevolutionaries
in a civil war (1918–1923)
the White Army
counterrevolutionaries and foreign powers
Red Army
the revolutionary government
created by the Sovnarkom in order to
To confront the successful White Army
greatly reduced the size of the territory controlled by the Soviets
However, the Soviet troops changed the course of the war
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THE POLISH-SOVIET WAR (1920–1921)
where did it originate from
expansionist ambitions of the newly constituted Poland
Soviets’ wish to regain territories from the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
After the conflict
the Brest-Litovsk border route was maintained
end of the project to immediately extend the revolution beyond Russia
2 THE SOVIET STATE
civil war helped to consolidate the regime of the October Revolution
the counterrevolutionary forces were led by
former aristocrats
former landowners
the presence of foreign armies was still perceived as an aggression
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)/ Soviet Union
formed in 1922
On an economic level
War Communism
in response to the war
disastrous for the people
they went hungry
protests spread even among members of the Communist Party
militarised industry
seized food
imposed forced labour
to control the situation
one-party dictatorship
Congress of Soviets
controlled by
Bolsheviks
the Secret Police, the Cheka
persecuted dissidents, critics and counterrevolutionaries
At the end of the civil war,
the economic situation was critical
New Economic Policy (NEP)
mixed system
socialism
capitalism
lasted from 1921 to 1928
remarkable economic recovery
considerable increase in agricultural production
emergence of wealthy agricultural owners known as kulaks
electrification plan of the Soviet Union was carried out
key to the country’s economic transformation
Lenin died in January 1924
first stage of Soviet history was closed
he expressed concern for the failure of the long-awaited world revolution
criticised the Soviet state he was leaving behind
warned about the problems between
Trotsky
Stalin
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (CPSU)
In 1918
Social Democratic Party transformed into Communist Party of Russia
in 1925
renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
