Russia+1920-1930

Russia 1920-1930 1917 October - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government of Alexander Kerensky, with workers and sailors capturing government buildings and the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and eventually taking over Moscow. 1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brings war with Germany to an end, but at the cost of Russia ceding large tracts of territory; Tsar Nicholas killed; Baltic states, Finland and Poland cede as the Russian Empire collapses. 1918-22 - Civil war between the Red Army and White Russians, or anti-communists, who were aided by Britain, France and the US. 1922 - Union Treaty signed 1922-91 - Russia part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


 * 1922 - signing of union treaty by:
 * Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
 * Ukraine
 * Byelorussia
 * Transcaucasian Federation
 * Soviet Ideology
 * “friendship of the peoples”
 * “Soviet patriotism”
 * Vladimir Lenin held power
 * wanted to limit the number of people in gov’t
 * New Economic Policy
 * Hybrid of Marxism and Capitalism
 * Allowed peasants to have a chance at success
 * productionism
 * maximization of economic output as preliminary to building socialism
 * ideological concept
 * unbalanced use of resources
 * many suffered, but it brought weapons to help fight in WWII
 * Foreign Relations
 * U.S and G.B strongly against Russia’s Socialist ideas, but shared a common enemy - Germany

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