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The Soviet Union
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The
Soviet Union
From 1922 to 1991
The Romanov
- Came to power in 1613
- Ruled until 1917
- 18 Romanovs took the throne
- Nicholas II was the last one
- The bolsheviks > The Romanovs
- Last imperial family was executed
The last imperial family
Russian
Revolution
1917
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
Send troops to fight Germany in WWI
- Intended to initiate the industrialization process
- Increased taxes
czar Nicolas II
- Fell into debt with the French banks
- Greater misery
czar Nicolas II (1868-1918)
Union of Soviet Socialists Republics
The USSR
U.S.S.R.
- In 1922 a treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Transcaucasia formed the USSR.
- It'd grow to contain 15 Soviet Republics.
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Belarus (Belorussia)
- Trancaucasia (Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan)
- Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan
- Kazakhastan & Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan
- Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia
- [Romania cedes] Bessarabia and North Bukovina (Molvova)
- 1922
- 1925
- 1929
- 1936.
- 1940
Map
1922 - Formal union & Germany recognises it.
1929/1933 - Lots of
deaths. The US recognises it.
1934 - League of
Nations.
1939/1940 - Russian Finnish
war / WWII
History
1924 -Constitution based on dictatorship and public ownership; Lenin dies, Stalin enters.
1928 - Adoption of first 5 year plan.
1936 - Leon Trotsky
- Took part in 1917 Russian Revolution
- Built the Red Army with Lenin
- Negociated peace with Germany in WWI - Outstanding leader
- Stalin isolated him because of his influence
- Exiled from Russia
- Arrives to Mexico
- Accused of treason by Stalin
- Assessinated by Ramon Mercader (a spy) in Mexico
When ruling the USSR he came out with 5 year plan to transform the USSR from a peasant society into an industrial superpower.
Good or Evil
- Control of economy
- Forced collectivization of agriculture
- Shot or exile whomever opposed to it
- Ending in millions of deaths (13%)
- Expanded powers of the secret police
- Established the Gulag system (18 million)
- Instituded the Great Purge (750K+)
- Cult of personality (Stalingrado)
- Censored photographs
- Attempted to rewrite history
- Controlled all media
- Pacted with Hitler
- Died of a stroke (responsible of 20M+ deaths)
1878 - 1953
Stalin
Iósif Stalin
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