Russia After the Revolution
The Death of Lenin
• After only 3-years as leader of Russia, Lenin
dies in 1924.
• A power struggle to see who will be the next
leader takes place between Leon Trotsky and
Joseph Stalin.
• Stalin is successful and Trotsky is forced to
leave the country.
• Eventually, Stalin has Trotsky assassinated
while he is living in Mexico.
Stalin’s Plans to Modernize Russia
• To Make the USSR more powerful by
becoming more industrialized.
• Stalin comes up with 5-Year Plans that set
5-year goals for production (1927-1932).
– The plans said how much a factory needed to
produce and how quickly.
What is good about the 5-Year
Plans
• The USSR builds lots of factories during
this time.
• By 1929, only Germany and the US are
more industrialized.
What is Bad About the 5-year plans
• Most of what they produce are things like
Tractors, trains, weapons, etc..
• No leisure products are produced so most
peoples lives are pretty basic—only
clothes, food, etc. (and not much choice
for clothes, food, and housing).
Soviet Propaganda
• Propaganda is used to tell people to work
hard now, and in the future they would
have more.
Examples of Propaganda
Review
Collectivization of Agriculture
• Stalin reorganizes Russian agriculture.
• All farmers are told to pool their land and
animals together into giant farms which
they will all work on.
Resistance to the Collectivization of
Agriculture
• The large farm owners (Kulaks) don’t like
this—they don’t think its fair—and many
Kill their animals or refuse.
• Stalin has the Kulaks that resist either
killed or sent to Siberia to forced labor
camps.
Effects of Collectivization of
Agriculture
• Because many Kulaks killed their animals and
destroyed their crops, a great famine hit Russia
in 1929.
• 4 to 6 million people died.
• Forced over 20 million peasants to move to the
city to be factory workers.
• Farming became more MODERN with the use
of tractors and HARVESTERS, etc.
• Quotas are set for the large farms.
• A Quota is a specific goals that needs to
be grown (a goal).
• Everything produced after the quota can
be sold by the farms for Profit.
• Soviet agriculture is never as successful
as it was in Industrializing .
Soviet Agriculture during the
Collectivization of Agriculture
(In Millions of metric tons)
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
3-D Column 1
1928
1932
oats
wheat
potatoes
Review Challenge
• The king of Russia was called what?
• What were some reasons that people were
unhappy before the Russian Revolution?
• When the Tsar left to lead the army during WWI,
who became the advisor to the Tsar’s wife?
• In 1917, the Tsar stepped down as leader of the
country. This is called doing what?
• When the Tsar stepped down in March, the new
government that took over was called what?
• Who was the leader of the new government?
• Why was the new government not very popular?
• What were the Russian communists called?
• Who was the leader of the Russian
communists?
• What did the communists promise the Russian
people?
• When the communists took over, they signed a
treaty with Germany that ended their
participation in WWI. What was the name of this
treaty?
• A civil war then broke out in Russia between the
communists who were called the _________
and the supporters of the Tsar who were the
_________.
• During the Civil War, when the communists tried
to take over all of the Means of production
(banks, stores, railroads, etc) and forced the
farmers to give all of their crops to the
government, it was called “__________
communism.”
• Lenin then adjusted things to allow for the
farmers to keep some of what they had grown
and allowed for some small businesses to be
privately owned. This was called his _________
_________ Plan.
• When Lenin died, a power struggle to
replace him took place between what 2
men?
• Who won the power struggle and became
the second communist leader of Russia?
• When the communists took over Russia,
what did they rename it?
• What was the name of Stalin’s plan to make
Russia more industrialized?
• What were some of the good things about this
plan?
• What were some of the bad things about this
plan?
• What was Stalin’s plan to reorganize Russian
farming called?
• What were the large farmers who resisted Stalin
reorganization of farming called?
• Was Stalin’s plan to reorganize Russian
Agriculture successful?