December 7, 2016 Global II Agenda: DO NOW: Term Matching NOTES #23: How did Vladimir Lenin impact Russia? CLASS ASSIGNMENT: “Lenin Rules Russia”

How did Vladimir Lenin impact Russia? Notes #23

(which the Bolsheviks later become)  During the Russian Revolution, the Russian peasants turned to a revolutionary group known as the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin Communist Party flag (which the Bolsheviks later become) 

Lenin and the Bolsheviks gained the peasants’ support by promising “Peace, Bread, and Land” and took over the Russian government in 1917.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) After taking control of Russia, Lenin had Russia sign a peace treaty with Germany, ending its involvement in World War I. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)

Lenin based his rule on the communist ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and later had the Bolsheviks change their name to the Communist Party.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991) Lenin and the Communists politically controlled and reorganized Russia, turning it into a federation of socialist republics, called the Soviet Union (or U.S.S.R.). Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)

Under Lenin, the Communists used violence to force control and eliminate any opposition in the Soviet Union.