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

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?

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

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

What did Lenin promise the people?

Bolshevik Revolution (November 1917) Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government

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.

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

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

SUMMARY Answer the five questions

Monday, January 28th HW: Read Case Study Stalinist Russia pages 876-879. 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?

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.

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

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

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

“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

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

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?