• 1. Why was Lenin’s leadership crucial to the success of the Russian Revolution?

• Thesis• Bolsheviks

– Provisional Government – Lenin’s return– The Communist Party

• Peace, Land, Bread– Starvation– Treaty of Brest-Litovsk– Farmland

• After the Revolution– Civil war– New Economic Policy (NEP)– USSR

Provisional Government

• Gov of Russia after Czar abdicates in 1917

• Makes decision to keep fighting in the war

Lenin’s Return

• Leader of the Bolshevik party

• Snuck into Russia by Germans

• His goal was a communist revolution against the provisional government

The Communist Party • After Bolsheviks

successfully rebel they rename themselves the Communist Party

• Takes over the country of Russia

Starvation

• Women in Petrograd led a citywide strike over lack of food

• Soldiers who ordered to shoot at them refused and joined the strike

• Czar Nicholas II abdicates

Treaty of Brest Litovsk

• Slogan of the Bolsheviks

• Ends the Great War

• Russians give up territory

Farmland

• Land taken from wealthy

• Redistributed to the poor

• Shocks capitalists in Western Europe and the USA

Russian Civil War

• Battle between Reds and Whites from 1918 to 1920

• Whites are anyone who is against communists

• Reds successfully led by Leon Trotsky

New Economic Policy (NEP)

• Developed by Lenin• Ironically allowed

capitalism • Peasants could sell

surplus crops on open market

USSR

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• In honor of local councils that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution

• Tried to promote communism around the world