April 20th, 2017

Study for your quiz on the Russian Revolution on MONDAY 4/24!!!

If you are missing notes, please get them from another classmate. Some notes are also available below.

Vladimir Lenin & the Bolshevik Party

• Vladimir Lenin was a communist and a Marxist who founded and lead the Bolshevik party (a political party)
• The Bolsheviks were responsible for the assasination of the Czar Nicholas Romanov II and his family during the February Revolution.
• The Bolsheviks took over the Russian government. After taking over, they issued several communist decrees (on work, education, agriculture, etc).
• Lenin served as the leader of the USSR/Russia from 1917-1924.

Stalin & Trotsky

• Stalin was a dictator of the USSR after Lenin's death from 1929-1953.
• He modernized, industrialized and militarized Russia.
• Trotsky was a communist who worked with Lenin and was primarily concerned with revolution.
• Stalin and Trotsky were close friends (at first), but political and idealogical differences caused them to fall apart.
• Trotsky wanted to continue the revolution and criticized Stalin. Stalin was a mass-murderer and a harsh dictator.
• Stalin exiled Trotsky from the USSR (kicked him out) and ordered his assassination.