THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION
The Russian civil war and foreign intervention
The Soviet State
countrarrevolutionary armed groups
opposition to Bolsheviks
Foreing powers
saw October revolution as a serious threat
because wanted to create
communist society
with out classes
Russia didn't want to pay tsars debt
Russia left Entente in war
several countries intervene military
British, American, French and Japanese
support countrarrevolutionaries
two sides in civil war
White army
Red army
Countrarrevolutionaries
foreing countries
revolutionary government
countrarrevolutionaries
led by
wished to regain
former aristocrats
former landowners
power
wealth
red saw foreing armies aggression
revolutionary institutions were consolidated
despite
chaos
enormous hardship
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
or Soviet Union 1922
War Communism
one-party dictatorship
state militarised industry
seized food
imposed force labour
troops always had supplies
could win
disastrous for people
protest expread
consolidated by government
Congress of Soviets controled by Bolsheviks
secret police
Cheka
persecuted dissidents
critics
counterrevolutionaries
New Economic Policy
mixed system combining
capitalism
socialism
1921-1928
remarkable economic recovery
increase in agricultural production
electrification plan was carried out
Leninn died
January 1924
probles betwen posible sucesors
Trotsky and Stalin
