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THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION
THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION
Counterrevolutionary armed groups
Foreign powers
Saw the October Revolution
As a serious threat
In the long term
Aspired to create
Communist society without social classes
More immediately
Russia’s exit from the war
The announcement
That the debts wouldn't be paid
Intervened militarily in Russia
To end the revolution
Sent troops to support
Russian counterrevolutionaries
In a civil war
Two groups
The White Army
Counterrevolutionaries
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The Red Army
The revolutionary government
The Soviets
Made no secret of their intention
To extend the revolution
THE SOVIET STATE
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Soviet Union was formed
War Communism
The state
Militarised industry
Seized food
Imposed forced labour
Troops always had supplies
Disastrous for the people
Most people went hungry
Protests spread
The government consolidated
A one-party dictatorship
Congress of Soviets
Controlled by the Bolsheviks
The Secret Police
Cheka
Persecuted counterrevolutionaries
New Economic Policy
A mixed system
Combining elements of
Capitalism
Socialism
Economic recovery
Increase in agricultural production
Emergence of wealthy agricultural owners
Kulaks
Electrification plan
Lenin died
Criticised the Soviet state
Warned about the problems that could arise
With two of the most important members
Trotsky
Lenin
