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After the Revolution…
Peace
• End to WWI w/
Treaty of BrestLitovsk
Council of People’s
Commissars
Communism
• Place factories under
soviet control
• Redistribute land
Civil War:
• Reds (Bolsheviks) vs. Whites
(Coalition of Mensheviks,
Czarists, Reformists) 1918-1921
Lenin’s
First
Steps
• Replaces Duma to
consolidate power
Cheka
• Secret Police to
maintain order over
citizens
Rule of Lenin 1920-1924
• Economic Reforms included the New
Economic Plan (NEP)
Attempt to
rebuild
economy &
agriculture
Mix of
Capitalism /
Socialism
Limited Free
Market
System
N.E.P
(Success)
Rule of Lenin 1920-1924
• Economic Reforms included the New
Economic Plan (NEP)
• Political Reforms
-Bolshevik party became Communist Party
-Russia becomes the United Soviet Socialist
Republics
Characteristics of a Totalitarian State
• Dictatorship- Absolute Authority
• Dynamic Leader- Vision for the nation
• State Control Over All Sectors of Society
– Business, Family Life, Labor, youth groups, housing,
religion, education, the arts
• State Control Over the Individual
– Obedience
– Denies basic liberties
• Organized Violence
– Uses force to crush opposition
Stalin’s Totalitarian State
• State Control of the Economy
–
5 year plan, collective farms
• Police Terror
– Great Purge, crush opposition
• Religious Persecution
– Control of the individual
• Propaganda (socialist realism)
– Molding peoples minds
• Education
– Controlled by the government
• Reorganize economy to catch up w/ the West
• Applied to Industry & Agriculture
• Collectivize farms: State takes proceeds
Goal
Problems
• Unrealistic production quotas w/ brutal enforcement methods
& poor working conditions
• Resistance to collectivization by peasants had to be crushed
• Decrease in urban standard of living / living conditions
(overcrowding/housing shortages).
• Preference to “megaprojects” made consumer goods
unavailable.
Stalin’s 5 Year Plans