1. 1. Why was Lenin’s leadership crucial to the success of the Russian Revolution?
Thesis
Bolsheviks
Provisional Government
Lenin’s return
The Communist Party
Peace, Land, Bread
Starvation
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Farmland
After the Revolution
Civil war
New Economic Policy (NEP)
USSR

2. Provisional Government
Gov of Russia after Czar abdicates in 1917
Makes decision to keep fighting in the war

3. Lenin’s Return Leader of the Bolshevik party
Snuck into Russia by Germans
His goal was a communist revolution against the provisional government

4. The Communist Party
After Bolsheviks successfully rebel they rename themselves the Communist Party
Takes over the country of Russia

5. Starvation Women in Petrograd led a citywide strike over lack of food
Soldiers who ordered to shoot at them refused and joined the strike
Czar Nicholas II abdicates

6. Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Slogan of the Bolsheviks
Ends the Great War
Russians give up territory

7. Farmland Land taken from wealthy Redistributed to the poor
Shocks capitalists in Western Europe and the USA

8. Russian Civil War Battle between Reds and Whites from 1918 to 1920
Whites are anyone who is against communists
Reds successfully led by Leon Trotsky

9. New Economic Policy (NEP)
Developed by Lenin
Ironically allowed capitalism
Peasants could sell surplus crops on open market

10. USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
In honor of local councils that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution
Tried to promote communism around the world