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06 THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION
1 THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION
Fought by two groups:
Red Army
White Army
British, Americans, French and Japanese... sent troops to support the Russian counterrevolutionaries in civil war
OTHER REVOLUTIONS
Revolutions following the Soviet example developed in Germany and Hungary in 1919
Foreign powers aspired to create a communist society without social classes
THE POLISH-SOVIET WAR (1920–1921)
This conflict originated by the ambitions of Poland and in the Soviets’ wish to regain territories from Russian Empire that they had given up in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Bolsheviks led to the emergence of counterrevolutionary armed groups
2 THE SOVIET STATE
government consolidated a one-party dictatorship to control the situation
The solution to the economic situation at the end of the civil war was the New Economic Policy
response to the war situation was a policy called War Communism
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (CPSU)
1918: old Social Democratic Party transformed into the Communist Party of Russia
1925: Renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union was formed in 1922.
