1. Lenin In Charge ( ):
A Whole New Russia!!

2. Lenin Promises A New Day!

4. Land! Bread!
1917: Lenin’s Decree on Land - Land to be redistributed to the people!

5. Peace! Russia Gets out of WWI!
1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

6. Russian Empire becomes: U.S.S.R.

8. Giotin: guillotine
Traktorina: tractor
Arvil: army of Vladimir Lenin
Dinamit: dynamite
Engelina: Engels
Melor: Marx, Engels, Lenin, October Revolution
Parizhkommuna: Paris Commune
Proletkarii: proletariat
Robesper: Robespierre
Marlen: Marx, Lenin
Ateist: Atheist
Barrikada: Barricade
New names!
Revolutsia - Revolution Lenina - Lenin; Stalina - Stalin; Oktyabrina - from October - month of Revolution in 1917; Vladlena - from VLADimir iLich LENin; Ninel - Lenin inside out.

9. But…the seeds of dictatorship are also planted…

10. Lenin creates single-party dictatorship
- Early 1918: Lenin holds elections for a new Parliament to be known as the Constituent Assembly.
Lenin’s Bolsheviks, renamed the Communist Party, runs in the elections
However, the Communists only won 175/700 seats
So, Lenin shuts down the Constituent Assembly after only one day!
All political parties EXCEPT the Communist Party are banned by Lenin
Single-party dictatorship begins

11. Peace? Russian Civil War (1918-1922)
Red Army (commies) fight anti-communist White Army
Leon Trotsky: placed in command of Red Army

12. Royal Family Executed (July 1918)

13. Land? Bread? War Communism
gov’t seizes control of land
Food is severely rationed to support Red Army
By 4 million Russians are dead from famine and war
"Sometimes mothers and fathers feed their children human meat as a last resort. Sometimes a starving family eats the body of one of its junior members. Sometimes parents at night seize part of a body from a cemetery and feed it to their children”.

14. Oppression… 1921: Kronstadt Revolt
Angry sailors angry about war communism and civil war revolt
Trotsky orders Red Army to squash revolt
Hundreds of sailors killed and hundreds executed for rebellion

15. Enforced Atheism!

16. New Secret Police Force: CHEKA

17. Post-civil war: A New Hope?
New Economic Policy
Early 1920s
Soviet gov’t on brink of collapse
War communism ended
NEP: retreat from total communism to placate masses
Small businesses allowed
Peasants allowed to control own crops and sell them

18. - Leaving U.S.S.R. essentially a communist dictatorship
BUT…
1924: Lenin dies
- Leaving U.S.S.R. essentially a communist dictatorship