InNo+hyundoj2013+10.25.10+(Part+3+Notes)

Part 3 Notes Hyun do Jun

=__Awesome Part__= <- This is a picture of Karl Marx, who was the founder of the Communism ideology.

= = =__Notes on Part 3__= =**Lenin's Russia**= -The government which Lenin set up in November 1917 was called Sovnarkom, short for Council of Peoples Commissars. -After the November revolution, most of Russians took control of most of town and cities. -Lenin didn’t fully control the government. Only 14 out of 25 was the member of the Sovnarkom was Bolsheviks. -Lenin had to carry out the promise that he had promised during the April thesis, end the war against German, provide the food and giving the land to peasant. ='Peace at any Price"= -Sovnarkom, with Lenin as chairman, began issuing decrees, or orders, on the day it was created. -These decrees made great changes to Russia and to the Russian people. -In November 1917 elections were held for Russia's new parliament, the Constituent Assembly. -They were the first free elections in Russian history. -Bolsheviks were badly beaten in the election. -The Socialist Revolutionaries gained more seats in the Assembly than all the other parties put together. -Bolshevik Red Guards with machine guns killed and wounded more than a hundred people who demonstrated in support of the Assembly outside its meeting place. -The Red Guards then prevented the elected Deputies from entering the Assembly and closed it down permanently. -Lenin believed that a quick end to the war against Germany and Austria was needed if the Bolsheviks were to stay in power. -Leon Trotsky was Russia's Commissar, or minister, for Foreign Affairs. -The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Russia and Germany was one of the harshest treaties ever made. -So Russia was now at peace. Lenin said that peace would give the Bolsheviks a 'breating space' which would help them get a grip on the country. =Civil war and Foreign Intervention= -Serious fighting began in May 1918 when anti-Bolshevik soldiers took control of the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia's vital link between east and west. -During May 1918, 45,000 Czech prisoners of war were being taken across Russia on trains to Vladivostok. -The most important government was called Komuch, short name for Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly. -Enemies of the Bolsheviks rushed to join the Czech Legion. -Under Czech protection they set up their own governmnets and claimed that they ruled Russia. -Against the Red Army, or 'Reds' as they were known, was a great variety of enemies known as 'Whites'. -They were called Whites because white was the traditional colour of the Tsar. In fact, not all Whites were supporters of the Tsar. -The White Armies included anyone who opposed the Bolsheviks. -By the end of 1918 four white Armies were attacking the heartland of Russia which was held by the Bolsheviks. -Fighting between the Reds and Whites in the Russian Civil War was often very savage. Many people were killed, including civilians. -The Bolsheviks nearly lost their own leader in August 1918. -A Socialist Revolutionary named Fanya Kapla shot Lenin three times at point black range while he was getting into a car in Moscow. -A week after the shooting, Sovnarkom ordered the Cheka, the secret political police, to begin a 'Red Terror'. -In the Red Army Leon Trotsky carried out his own form of terror. -In 1918 he ordered his Army to who didn’t fully contributes to the army was to be shot. -Trotsky shot everyone who was unoccupied. ='One Step Backward...' War Communism and the NEP= -During the Civil War the Bolsheviks took strict measures to organize industry and food supplies in the areas under their control. -There were five aspects of War Communism. -The Red Army constantly supplied with the food and weapons, but it failed to share the equal wealth of other. -The peasant didn’t need the surplus food which lead to famine and killed many and many people. -In March 1921 there was a revolt of 10,000 sailors at Kronstadt, a naval base near Petrograd. -They were shot by checka or boomed. -It introduced the new economic policy. -Russia gained a new constitution and, with it, a new name. -The 1923 Constitution said that Russia was a 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics'. -The country was now a union of four republics; Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine and the Cuaasus they control over armed forces, industry, communication and secret police. -Lenin did not live to see the USSR grow to be one of the great powers of the twentieth century world. -Lenin suffered from stroke and in 1924 died at the age of 53. =__Summary__= In Russian Revolution, Lenin wanted peace at any price for the support of Armies but provoked civil war against the Whites. Lenin started to work Communism into the people of Russia but had to make some capitalism changes to improve plan, resulting to the NEP. Russia resulted the win of the Red Army and introduced the idea of Communism. And finally, Lenin died in 1924. =__**Questions**__= 1. How did Cheka support the Bolsheviks to get the power? 2. What is a Sovnarkom? 3. How did the battle between White and Red start in Russian Revolution? 4. Why did Lenin die, and how did he die? 5. What was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic?
 * The first decrees of Sovnarkom**
 * The Constituent Assembly**
 * The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk**
 * The Czech Legion**
 * Reds and Whites**
 * The Red Terror**
 * War Communism**
 * The New Economic Policy**
 * The 1923 Constitution**
 * Lenin's Death**