9.2.1 The Russian Revolution -TEACH-

• History
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

people in this lesson

Nicholas II

tsar (emperor)

Russia

Rasputin

mad wizard

Russia

Lenin

Communist leader

Soviet Union

Karl Marx

"father" of communism

Germany

CHAPTER 9.2

Chapter 9.2 is about the time between WW1 and WW2. We call this period (1919 - 1939) "the Interbellum". 

• We will learn how democracy was challenged when economic crises hit Europe. Several countries turned away from democracy and started their own political experiments, with devastating effects:

1. Communism in Russia
2. Fascism in Italy and Spain
   
3. National-Socialism in Germany.
   

• These new (dictatorial) ideologies would lead Europe to a new World War 

What is absolutism again?

The Russian Revolution (1917)

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What is socialism?

Homework

• Read the text 'Lenin'
•  Watch the first part of 'Oversimplified: Russian Revolution' in the text lesson

9. The Time of World Wars

INTERBELLUM

2.1 The Russian Revolution

What you will learn in 

this lesson

• what Russia was like before 1917.
• the causes for the February Revolution
• what marxists / communists are
• how Lenin and the Bolsheviks turned Russia into a communist state

Use these questions to make your own summary

What do you remember from the previous lesson?

The Russian Revolution

Back to Lenin.....

Lenin's plans met with a lot of resistance:

• - private owners of land and businesses (because the state took them away)
• - people who were still loyal to the czar (aristocrats, officers)
• - religious people (because the communists were anti- religion)

This led to a CIVIL WAR (1918 - 1922)

The Russian Revolution

CIVIL WAR (1918-1922)

Who fought against who?

     REDS: (communists)

• Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, Trotski, Stalin

     WHITES:(anti- communists)

• wealthy capitalists (business owners), landowners
  
• czarists (people who wanted the tsar back on the throne)
  
• armies from foreign anti-communist countries (France, UK, USA)
  

The outcome: The Whites were defeated. The czarist family was murdered.

COMMUNISM

• Communism is an ideology.
• An ideology is a system of ideas and ideals, which forms the basis of economic or political or even religious policy.

• Other ideologies we will learn about are fascism and national-socialism.

     CAPITALIST ECONOMY                        COMMUNIST ECONOMY

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Before you copy this overview, do the drag & drop task...

capitalist economy

communist economy

1 government controls the economy

1. minimal government interfere in economy

2. private ownership of businesses

2. state owned businesses

3. planned economy

3. free market economy

4. production targets set by the state

4. production determined by need or demand

5. you work for profit

5. you work for the good of the nation

6. companies compete with each other

6. no competition between companies

7. prices of products determined by the state

7. prices determined by supply and demand

8. commercials and adverts

8. no commercials and adverts needed

13. The timeline and the table below is divided in three parts. Drag the sentences underneath the right part:

Lenin arrives in Petrograd

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Founding Soviet Union

World War I is going badly for Russia (1)

World War I is going badly for Russia (2)

April theses

civil war

Tsar Nicholas is in power

Bolsheviks are in power

Homework

Finish the crossword puzzle and upload a print screen to LessonUp

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