1.
Agenda 2-4-2013
• BW – Define Communist Party
• Describe – New Economic Policy (pg.872)
• CW – Notes
• HW – Primary Source Reading on Lenin
• QOTD – “You can still dunk in the dark”
- Oreo

2.
What impact
did Vladimir
Lenin have
on Russia?
Notes #4-2

3.
• As the leader of the Bolsheviks, he
promised “Peace, Bread, and Land” to
gain popular support to overthrow the
Russian government.

4.
One Government out, the next
one in
• The Provisional Government Topples
In November 1917, workers take
control of the government
• Bolsheviks in Power
• Lenin gives land to peasants, puts
workers in control of factories

5.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Lenin had Russia sign a peace treaty
with Germany, ending its involvement
in WWI.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918

6.
Civil War
Civil War Rages in Russia
• Civil War between Bolsheviks’ Red Army
and loosely allied White Army
• Red Army wins three-year war that leaves
14 million dead
Comparing World Revolutions
• Russian, French Revolutions similar—both
attempt to remake society

7.
Political Reforms
• Lenin and the Communists politically
reorganized Russia,
• Creates self-governing republics (mini-
states) under national government
Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
(U.S.S.R.); 1922 – 1991

8.
Political Reforms (cont’d)
• In 1922, country renamed Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)
• Communist Party—new name taken by
Bolsheviks from writings of Marx
Flag of the
Russian Empire
Flag of the
Soviet Union

9.
COMMUNISM
• Lenin believed in the ideas of Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels and had the
Bolshevik Party change their name to the
Communist Party.

10.
The Communist Manifesto:
• Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels.
Karl Marx

Friedrich
Engels


11.
• According to Marx and Engels, history
can be viewed as a continuous struggle
between economic classes.
Working class (proletariat) vs. Wealthy class (capitalist class)

12.
• A main idea of The Communist
Manifesto was that the proletariat must
unite to overthrow the capitalist class.

13.
• This leads to private property ceasing
to exist and the people owning the
means of production, creating a system
of communism.

14.
• once communism emerges, the evils of
industrial society would disappear.

15.
New Economic Policy
• In March 1921, Lenin launches New
Economic Policy; (has some capitalism)
• NEP and peace restore economy
shattered by war, revolution
• By 1928, Russia’s farms, factories are
productive again

16.
A New Leader?
• Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin compete
to replace Lenin when he dies
• Joseph Stalin—cold, hard Communist
Party general secretary in 1922
Joseph
Stalin
Leon
Trotsky

17.
• Stalin gains power from
1922 to 1927
• Lenin dies in 1924
• Stalin gains complete
control in 1928; Trotsky
forced into exile
And the winner is……Stalin!

18.
• Communist Party was the only party
that ran the government, using violence
and terror to force control.
Only Party