After the War Begins

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After the War Begins

• A World in Crisis

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Your conclusions

• Chaos and resentment in Germany
• Shifting societal roles

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Global Fragmentation

• Wilsons self-determination
• Colonies to mandates
• Rise of new nations and frustrated old ones
• BUT, League of Nations

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Russia

• Nicholas II and Alexandra
• Autocratic government of largely agrarian society
• Marxism and a growing proletariat
• WWI resources drained
• Nicholas II, Alexandra, and Rasputin

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Bolshevik Revolution 1917

• Depleted resources
• Protests
• Troop refusal
• Abdication
• Setting up of soviets

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Lenin

• Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
• Seeds of anti-czarist sentiment
• Adaptation of Marx
• Dictatorship of the Proletariat or Bolsheviks
• Lenin and Trotsky Peace, Land, and Bread
• Winter Palace in Petrograd Kremlin in Moscow

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Bolshevik Reforms

• Ended private ownership
• Land reforms
• Proletariat control of factories and mines
• Hammer and sickle flag (worker and peasant)
• Immediate peace with Germany in exchange for land

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The USSR
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Joseph Stalin and totalitarianism

• Millions dead from war, famine, disease
• Lenins death 1924
• Ambition to become a major industrial power
• Command economic start
• Collectives (like enclosure) and resistance
• 1934-38 The Great Purge (est 4,000,000)

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Tools of Control

• Terror
• Propaganda
• Religious or Ideological Zeal