25 Chapter The soviet union under Lenin and stalin - Whites were the bolshevics opponents (the reds), they were mostly comprised of supporters from the past regime. - The greens joined in with the whites who opposed all central state power, comprised of mostly peasants - The bolshevics eventually won from greater support. - A general of the reds lead them to victory named Leon Trostky. - The civil war made the bolsheviks lean toward a more raical economic stance known as "war communism" The nep period -Because "war communism" was failing so terribly the Bolsheviks emabarked on a radically different course known as the New Economic Policy (NEP). -The nep reverted to the state capitalism that had been tried immediately after the rev. this allowed for soviet agriculture to bounce back -Lenin was replaced by Joseph Stalin a the leader of the USSR Stalin and the "Revolution from above" -Stalin was a master in political strategy and he was fast at getting Trosky out of the picture as he was a potential front runner in taking over the political scene after Lenin's death -Stalin revived the old "war communism" -in 1929 stalin made collectivization must a and forcefully put farmers in these collective groups The five-years plan -The five years plan increased national wealth and revived cities. New industries were created etc. created by stalin -gulag was the labor camp system implemented by stalin The Great Terror -Left nearly a million people dead from labor reasons occurred form 1937-1938. Stalin went after anyone who opposed him and swiftly crushed them mass repression -Stalin turned the soviet union into a communist state. The rise of Mussolini -he was the editor of Avanti the leading socilist daily and founded a new paper Il popolo d'italia -in October 28 fascist forces took over rome -Three things that the facsim doctine called for 1.Statism 2.Nationalism 3.Militarism -mussolini took dual positions as prime minister and party leader
Weimar Germany -two days after the armisice endin the first world war thousands of germans took over the gov calling for a popular elected gov and a new republic. The social democrtatic leader was Friedrich Edert -Freikorps were a right wing militia aiming to overthrow the gov. many nazi's in this party. -the great depression pushed the Weimar gov to the breaking point.