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 totalitarian rule are also planted…

10. Lenin creates single-party dictatorship
- Early 1918: 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
During civil war
gov’t seizes control of land
Food is severely rationed to support Red Army
By 4 million dead
"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. Enforced Atheism!

15. Secret Police Force Created: CHEKA

16. Post-civil war: A New Hope?
New Economic Policy
Early 1920s after civil war
War communism ended
NEP: land given back to peasants
Small businesses allowed
Peasants allowed to control own crops and sell them

17. - Leaving U.S.S.R. with the question…
BUT…
1924: Lenin dies
- Leaving U.S.S.R. with the question…