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The Russian Revolution and Soviet History

The Russian Revolution reshaped the 20th century, giving rise to the Soviet Union and decades of communist rule. This deck covers the fall of the Tsar, the Bolshevik seizure of power, and the leadership of Lenin and Stalin, including collectivization and the G...

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The Russian Revolution reshaped the 20th century, giving rise to the Soviet Union and decades of communist rule. This deck covers the fall of the Tsar, the Bolshevik seizure of power, and the leadership of Lenin and Stalin, including collectivization and the Great Purge. You'll also review the Soviet role in World War 2, the reforms of Gorbachev, and the USSR's eventual dissolution in 1991. Essential for world history students studying 20th-century political revolutions and the Cold War era.

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1917
The February Revolution and the October Revolution
Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown, ending centuries of Romanov rule
The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, seized power from the Provisional Government
The last emperor of Russia, overthrown in 1917
Vladimir Lenin
Marxism, adapted into Leninism
A conflict between the Bolshevik Red Army and anti-Bolshevik White Army forces (1917-1923)
The New Economic Policy (NEP)
Joseph Stalin
Programs aimed at rapidly industrializing the Soviet economy
The forced consolidation of individual farms into collective farms
A campaign of political repression and mass executions under Stalin in the 1930s
A man-made famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s under Stalin's policies
It fought against Nazi Germany, suffering massive casualties, and helped defeat the Axis powers
The first Soviet secret police organization
The NKVD, and later the KGB
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
1922
The principal policymaking committee of the Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
A Cold War confrontation involving Soviet missiles placed in Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev
Openness and increased transparency in government
Economic and political restructuring
1991
Russia and 14 other independent republics
It appealed to war-weary soldiers and peasants seeking land reform
A council of workers or soldiers that held local political power
It helped catalyze the Bolshevik seizure of power