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Socialism Part 3
Socialism Part 3
Socialism Part 3
❖ Nationalism of Bank
4 1
Lenin also argued that
But the later Bolshevik party should
developments of the rename itself the
subsequent months Communist Party to
changed their attitude. indicate its new radical
aims.
3 2
They thought it was not
the right time for a Many in Bolshevik Party
socialist revolution and were initially surprised by
the Provisional the April Theses.
Government needed to
be supported
Growing Movement
2. Trade Unions
grew in number
1. Various 3. Soldier's
Factory Committees
Committees were also
were formed formed
As the Provisional Government saw growing
Bolshevik’s influence it decided to take stern
measure.
1 On 16 October 1917,
Lenin persuaded Soviet
& the Bolshevik Party to
agree to a socialist
seizure of power.
3 2
The date of the Under Leon Trotskii a
event was kept a Military Revolutionary
secret. Committee (MRC) was
appointed
24 October : The Uprising Began
3. Banned the
use of old titles
of aristocracy
❖ New Uniforms were designed for the army
and officials
Non-Bolsheviks
socialists, liberals
and supporters of
autocracy
condemned the
Bolshevik uprising
Socialist
Revolutionaries
Greens
Three
Main
groups
Pro-Tsarist
Bolsheviks
Whites
Reds
During 1918-1919, the ‘greens' and ‘whites'
controlled most of the Russian empire
Officials assessed
how the economy
could work and
set targets for a
five-year period In the first two
‘Plans' (1927-1932 &
1933-1938)
Government fixed
all prices to
promote industrial
growth
Advantages
❏ Centralised planning led to economic
growth
3. Workers lived
hard lives.
Reason : 550
stoppages of work
in the first year
alone.
Stalinism and Collectivisation
Disasters of the Collectivisation
of agriculture
By 1927-1928, the towns in Soviet
Russia were facing an acute
problem of grain supplies
The Bolshevik-founded
Comintern (an international
union of pro-Bolshevik
socialist parties).
Some recieved education in the
USSR’s Communist University of
the Workers of the East.