HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 32 Outline of Last Lecture I March on Rome II Mussolini s rise to power A Broader context post war chaos B Radicalized peasantry and working class III The fascist party defender of property and power Outline of Current Lecture I Civil war and nep A Lenin s Bolsheviks seize power during the October revolution 1 Sent red guards to attack the winter palace 2 Provisional government falls 3 Lenin and followers declare a revolutionary state 4 Want to end poverty and wealth inequality and oppression B Treaty of Brest Litovsk 1 Russians surrender huge territories Finland Poland Baltic provinces Ukraine to Germany 2 Experienced as a great humiliation C Spring 1918 1 A number of armies form led by former generals of the czar s army to crush the Bolsheviks and restore a version of the czarist regime white army 2 Bolsheviks respond with the Red Army i Raised by Trotsky 3 This civil war lasts two and a half years 1918 1920 i A lot of death ii Agriculture ruined leads to famine at conclusion of war 1921 1922 iii Millions starved to death as a result of the civil war iv Bolsheviks win 4 British and Americans aided the White Army which increased fear that they had no allies made them paranoid and more isolated siege mentality D Bolsheviks 1 Authoritarian origins These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute II 2 Civil war militarizes the party 3 Suspicion and resulting to violence enforces isolation E New Economic Policy 1 Supposed to re allow private businesses private market to develop economic recovery 2 Want to encourage farmers to grow for urban areas and market towns not for subsistence kulaks successful profitable farmers who grow for profit The leadership struggle A Lenin 1 Paramount leader of the state 2 Began to have a series of strokes dies January 1924 3 Who will succeed Lenin B Joseph Stalin 1 1st candidate 2 From Georgia country 3 Had gone to seminary as a boy to become a priest but then devotes his life to the Bolshevik revolution 4 Not a great intellectual 5 Backroom politician had a whole system of support C Leon Trotsky 1 Serious intellectual writer 2 Great speaker 3 Architect of the Red Army 4 Had many enemies Jewish and arrogant D Stalin prevails 1 Goes after Trotsky s allies 2 Trotsky eventually forced to resign from government and then kicked out of the party and forced into exile ends up in Mexico
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