1. Please take out your homework (Answers to the questions you created during yesterday’s Pause and Reflect Activity)

2. Wednesday, January 16th HW: Have a great day!
Aim: What role did Lenin play in the Bolshevik Revolution?
Do Now: Why did the Provisional Government that was created in March 1917 fail?

3. Vladimir Lenin got him exiled to Siberia Traveled Europe
Revolutionary activities
got him exiled to Siberia
Traveled Europe
Studied work of Karl Marx
Believed Russia needed a
communist state
Returned to Russia in
1917

4. Bolsheviks – a group of radical Socialist Revolutionaries who were committed to change.

5. What did Lenin promise the people?

6. Bolshevik Revolution (November 1917)
Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government

7. Bolsheviks establish a Communist state
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918): Withdrew Russia from WWI. Russia had to give a large amount of land to Germany.
Redistribution of land.
Government control of factories and mines.

8. VS. Russian Civil War (1918-1921) White Army Red Army
(Czarists, Democrats, Nationalists)
(Bolsheviks)

9. Red Army defeated White Army in 1921
14 million Russians died in Civil War and famine
Bolsheviks had complete control over Russia

10. SUMMARY Answer the five questions

11. Monday, January 28th HW: Read Case Study Stalinist Russia
pages Answer questions 1, 5,and 8.
* Due Tuesday!
Aim: How does a totalitarian state differ from a
Democratic state?
Do Now: Answer the following questions
Who won the Russian Civil War?
How do you think the Russian Civil War affected the economy?

12. New Economic Policy (1921)
Gov’t controlled major industries, banks, and means of communication
Allowed some small factories, businesses, and farms to operate under private ownership.

14. Soviets: self-governing Socialist republics.
Lenin formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922.

15. Bolshevik Party → Communist Party
Vladimir Lenin
Lenin’s Mausoleum
Red Square, Moscow

16. GOOD BAD Lenin’s Legacy Good Took Russia out of WWI
Censored published materials
Increased standard of living for many Russians
Secret Police (Cheka) carried out Red Terror
New Economic Policy restored economy

17. “Comrade Stalin… has concentrated enormous power in
Joseph Stalin
“Comrade Stalin… has concentrated enormous power in
his hands, and I am not sure that he always knows how
to use that power with sufficient caution.”
– Vladimir Lenin

18. Totalitarianism: government takes control
over every aspect of public and private life.

19. Summary
How does the life of an ordinary citizen in your fictional totalitarian state differ from the life of an ordinary citizen living in a democratic country such as the United States of America?