THE BIRTH OF THE SOVIET UNION
The Russian civil war and foreign intervention
Bolsheviks led to the emergence of counterrevolutionary armed groups
Russia’s exit from the war and the announcement that the debts contracted by the tsar would not be paid
Triple Entente allies were angry
The British, Americans, French and Japanese, among others, sent troops to support the Russian counterrevolutionaries in a civil war
2 groups
White army
Red army
The soviet state
Revolutionary institutions were consolidated and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union was formed in 1922.
The response to the war situation was a policy called War Communism
The state militarised industry, seized food and imposed forced labour.
To control the situation, the government consolidated a one-party dictatorship.
At the end of the civil war, the economic situation was critical.
The solution was the New Economic Policy which was a mixed system combining elements
Capitalism
Socialism
