BOLSHEVIKS COME TO POWER

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BOLSHEVIKS COME TO POWER

• COUNCIL OF PEOPLES COMMISSARS
• LENIN (CHAIRMAN)
• TROTSKY (FOREIGN AFFAIRS)
• STALIN (NATIONALITY)
• LAND AND PEACE

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THE BOLSHEVIKS
LEON TROTSKY (1879-1940)
JOSEPH STALIN 1878-1953
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THE CIVIL WAR (1918-20)

• INTRODUCTION OF THE GREGORIAN CALENDER (February
  1, 1918)
• BREST-LITOVSK PEACE NEGOTIATIONS (November 20,
  1917 March 3, 1918)
• BRITISH INTERVENTION (March 1918)
• 14 ALLIED NATIONS
• EXECUTION OF NICHOLAS II AND HIS FAMILY (July 16,
  1918)
• BREAKAWAY NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS (1917-1918)
• RED ARMY (LEON TROTSKY)
• WHITE ARMIES
• THE DEFEAT OF GENERAL BARON PETER WRANGEL IN
  CRIMEA (November 17, 1920)
• THE BOLSHEVIK CONQUEST OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
  (1920-22)
• PROCLAMATION OF THE U.S.S.R. (December 30, 1922)
• LENINS DEATH (January 21, 1924)

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THE COMINTERN

• THE FIRST COMINTERN CONGRESS (March 2-6, 1919)

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GREGORY ZINOVIEV (1883-1936)
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THE SOVIET UNITED SOCCER TEAM
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STALIN COMES TO POWER

• THE ABSENCE OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION
• PARTY-SOVIET BUREAUCRACY (CADRE)
• GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE (April
  3, 1922)
• STALINS THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE TACTICS
  OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS (December 1924)
• THEORY OF SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY

JOSEPH STALIN 1878-1953
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THE UNITED LEFT OPPOSITION(APRIL 1926 DECEMBER
1927)
TROTSKY, LEV KAMENEV, ZINOVIEV
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STALINISM

• EXPULSION OF THE LEFT OPPOSITION MEMBERS
  (November December, 1927)
• TROTSKYS EXILE TO CENTRAL ASIA (January 16,
  1928)
• TROTSKYS EXPULSION FROM THE USSR (February 12,
  1929)
• STATISM
• COLLECTIVIZATION (1927-1930)
• KULAK (A FIST)
• INDUSTRIALIZATION
• FIVE-YEAR PLANS (1928-32 1933-7 1938-41)
• FAMINE (1932-3)
• VICTIMS (13 MILLION PEASANTS)
• TERROR
• CULT OF PERSONALITY
• MILITARISM
• ANTI-LIBERALISM
• EIGHT-HOUR WORKDAY
• PUBLIC WORKS
• WELFARE PROGRAM