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Soviet Union – Product of Russian Revolution and WWI
Flag Symbols Hammer - Hard work needed to be done by the
factory workersSickle – Hard work done by farmers
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“Welcome Comrades”
Comrades
= Friends
Vladimir Lenin
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Communism• Political, social and economic idea that
promotes the establishment of a classless society based on common ownership of property
• Why might people want a communist system?
Everyone “equal,” everyone works together, everyone has a housing/job!
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Bolsheviks• Communist Group that over threw the
government during the Russian Revolution
• Leader – Vladimir Lenin
Bolsheviks speaking at a meeting of workers and soldiers in Petrograd in 1917
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Communism Cartoon
• What is this cartoon trying to show?
Lenin sweeping away all the rich (kings, bankers, etc)
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Soviets• Governing body made up of workers who
made laws
• 15 Republics that made Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)
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Lenin dies in 1923Lenin’s preserved body in Leningrad
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Joseph Stalin• Brutal Leader of Soviet Union 1924-1953
• Led U.S.S.R. to victory during WWII, and after
• Made everything communist – Example?
• St Petersburg = Leningrad
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Post WWIIIron Curtain
Soviet Union kept conquered land, total
control of these countries --- Why?
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Policies of Communism1. Autarky - Country tries to produce
everything it needs
Problems?
A. Efficiency, product quality fell
B. Food production fell, starvation of peasants
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2. Rationing - Soviet Bread Line
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3. “Equal” Housing
• Ugly empty Soviet housing blocs. Not for Soviet party leadership
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4. Eliminating Freedoms• Total control of press/thought• Sent “enemies” to labor camps
called gulags• Tried to stop religion
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral, once the most dominant landmark in Baku, was demolished in the 1930s under Stalin.
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Terrible Tragedy of “communism”casualties for the Stalinist period –
8 to 61 million
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Downfall of Soviet UnionSoviet Environmental Policies - basically
non existent, huge areas ruined by the pollution
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Nuclear Disaster• Chernobyl Disaster
April 26th 1986
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Communism Cartoon
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Cold War – Against America1. Very high Military Spending
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2. Soviet Policies - People revolted against communism
1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall – end of communism, end of “Cold War”
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Former Soviet Union TodayFrom One, Many
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Positives of the Soviet Union1. Education increased = 90% literacy rate
2. Health care “free” and available
3. Guaranteed Employment