Lenin Restores Order

New Economic policy

Political Reforms

In March 1921, Lenin temporarily put aside his
plan for a state-controlled economy.

Ruling by decree, Lenin's Sovnarkom introduced widespread reforms confiscating land for redistribution among the permitting non-Russian nations to declare themselves independent, improving labour rights, and increasing access to education

Communism

In 1922 the country was named the union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Communism: a political and economic system of organization

Lenin organized Russia into several self-governing republics under the central government

Bolshevik leaders saw nationalism as a threat to unity and party loyalty

Instead, he resorted to a small-scale
version of capitalism called the New Economic Policy (NEP).

the NEP allowed peasants to sell there crops instead of having to give them to the government.

Karl Marx - German Philsopher

shared by a community; this was hard to achieve

though that communism was THE WAY to replace capitalism

the government kept control of industries and banks, but let small businesses keep ownership

How did the Communist government prevent nationalism from threatening the new state created by the revolution

thought it had to be that way to continue the evolution of society's institutions

the government encouraged foreign investment.

"natural process" accordng to history

Lenin wanted to build on Marx's theories

Thanks to the new policies the country slowly recovered.

Lenin's communist state became a totalitarian system because of his actions

by 1928 Russias factories and farms were producing as much as they were before WW1.

Concept: Change the new government provided much needed change to the country for the better

How did Lenin's Communist party stray from Marx's original concept of Communism

Communism

WHy did people support Lenin?

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