1. Lenin builds an Empire 1917-1924
Lenin’s Russia
Lenin builds an Empire

2. TIMELINE Lenin takes power in 1917 Signs treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
Russia falls into Civil War
15 million people die!
(war, famine, disease)
Economy destroyed!

3. Economic Reforms Lenin is victorious in Civil War 1920
New Economic Policy 1921
Allowed some Capitalism
Encouraged foreign investment

4. Political Reforms Organized Russia into self-ruling Republics
1922 named Russia the USSR
(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Bolsheviks rename party the Communist Party
Became a dictatorship of the Communist Party

6. Lenin dies in 1924
53-Years old
Who would take his place?

7. Power Struggle
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin