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• 1. Why was Lenin’s leadership crucial to the success of the
Russian Revolution?
• Thesis
• Bolsheviks
– Provisional Government
– Lenin’s return
– The Communist Party
• Peace, Land, Bread
– Starvation
– Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
– Farmland
• After the Revolution
– Civil war
– New Economic Policy (NEP)
– USSR
Provisional Government
• Gov of Russia after
Czar abdicates in
1917
• Makes decision to
keep fighting in the
war
Lenin’s Return
• Leader of the
Bolshevik party
• Snuck into Russia by
Germans
• His goal was a
communist revolution
against the provisional
government
The Communist Party
• After Bolsheviks
successfully rebel they
rename themselves the
Communist Party
• Takes over the country
of Russia
Starvation
• Women in Petrograd led
a citywide strike over
lack of food
• Soldiers who ordered to
shoot at them refused
and joined the strike
• Czar Nicholas II
abdicates
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
• Slogan of the
Bolsheviks
• Ends the Great
War
• Russians give
up territory
Farmland
• Land taken from
wealthy
• Redistributed to
the poor
• Shocks capitalists
in Western
Europe and the
USA
Russian Civil War
• Battle between Reds
and Whites from 1918
to 1920
• Whites are anyone who
is against communists
• Reds successfully led by
Leon Trotsky
New Economic Policy (NEP)
• Developed by Lenin
• Ironically allowed
capitalism
• Peasants could sell
surplus crops on open
market
USSR
• Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics
• In honor of local
councils that helped
launch the Bolshevik
Revolution
• Tried to promote
communism around the
world