1. From Lenin to Stalin
The New USSR

2. Lenin’s Economy NEP- New Economic Policy
Allow some small private businesses for profit. (Capitalism)
Only temporary, to revitalize economy.
Created kulaks- wealthy farmers and business people allowed to venture in capitalism.
Lenin dies in 1924.

3. Rise of Stalin: Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin struggle for power.
Wanted world-wide
communist revolution.
Wanted to focus on
communism in the
USSR.

4. Rise of Stalin: 1927- Trotsky exiled to Siberia, Stalin takes command.
1940- Trotsky assassinated in 1940 in Mexico by Stalin’s agents.

5. Stalin’s USSR Wanted USSR to be a world power.
Developed a command economy- gov’t makes all economic decisions.
USSR became wealthy and powerful, but standard of living was very poor.
Disliked the NEP. He forced kulaks to give up land and live on collectives- large farms owned and operated by large peasant groups.

6. Collective farms
Soviet propaganda for collective farms:

7. Stalin’s USSR 1934- Stalin launches the Great Purge:
Paranoid that other Soviet leaders were plotting against him.
Executed millions he suspected of opposing him- including his own government and military.