1. Lenin In Charge ( )
Does Lenin keep or betray the promise of Land, Peace, Bread?

2. 1917: Decree On Land Land taken from rich, church, royals
Land to be redistributed to the people

3. 1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Peace deal with Germany
Russia out of WWI
Russia cedes territory to Germany

4. 1923: Russia Becomes U.S.S.R.
New name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
New flag: red hammer and sickle flag replaces imperial flag

5. 1918: All parties are banned except Communists
- Early 1918: Lenin holds elections for a new parliament
Communists win 175/700 seats
Lenin shuts down parliament after only one day
All political parties EXCEPT the Communist Party are banned

6. Russian Civil War ( )
Red Army (commies) fight anti-communist White Army
@8 million casualties (mostly civilian)

7. 1918: Royal Family Executed
Lenin orders Tsar and entire family killed
Shot in a basement in Yekaterinburg

8. : War Communism
gov’t seizes control of land from people during civil war
Food is severely rationed to support Red Army
"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”.

9. 1917-1920s: State Atheism Church property confiscated
Priests arrested and executed
Atheist organizations formed to “encourage” atheism

10. 1921: Kronstadt Revolt
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

11. 1917: CHEKA created
“All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage”
Secret police force
Led by Felix Dzerzhinsky

12. 1922: New Economic Policy War communism ended Private property allowed
Small businesses allowed
Peasants allowed to control own crops and sell them