The document summarizes the growth of Soviet power from its origins in Kievan Rus in the 9th century through World War II. Major events included the Mongol invasion in the 13th century, Ivan the Great freeing Russia from Mongol influence in the 15th century, and Peter the Great expanding the Tsardom into a major European power in the 17th-18th centuries. The 1917 revolution established Bolshevik rule under Lenin and Trotsky, and the USSR was officially formed in 1923 under Stalin's leadership. Stalin instituted five-year plans, collectivization, and purges to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union. By the end of World War II, the USSR had emerged as one of the two superpowers alongside the United States

1. Growth of Soviet Power
BACKGROUND TO WWI I

2. Overview
 Briefly recap growth of US power from AS
 Explore the equivalent growth of Soviet power up to
WWII

3. Growth of US Power
 American Revolution late 18th century
 Manifest Destiny
 Expanding power in Latin America and the Pacific
 Entry into WWI - 1917
 Emergence as a major world power (reluctantly?)
 Entry into WWII after Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbour
 Post WWII emerged as one of two superpowers in a
bipolar world

4. Growth of Soviet Power - Background
 9th to 11th century: Viking influence - centred on Kiev
 1237-1395: Invasion by the Mongols
 1462 – 1505: Ivan III – frees Russia from the
influence of the Mongols – centred on Moscow
 1547 – 1584: Ivan the Terrible – strengthens and
centralises the administration
 1613: First of the Romanov Tsars
 1682-1725: Peter the Great – expanded the Tsardom
into a much larger empire that became a major
European power

5. Growth of Soviet Power - Background
 1713: Capital city moved from Moscow to St
Petersburg
 1762 – 1796: Catherine the Great – Russia grows
larger and stronger as a major European power
 1812: Russia invaded by Napoleon
 19th Century: Russian expansion in Asia
 1861: Emancipation of the serfs
 1894 – 1917: Reign of the last Romanov Tsar
Nicholas II

6. Growth of Soviet Power - Revolution
 1905: Bloody Sunday and 1905 Revolution
 1914: Russia enters WWI
 February 1917: Nicholas II abdicates
 Feb – Oct 1917: Provisional Government
 October 1917: Bolsheviks under Lenin and Trotsky
seize power
 March 1918: Treaty of Brest Litovsk – peace with
Germany and significant loss of land
 March 1918: Capital moved from St Petersburg back
to Moscow

7. Growth of Soviet Power - Stalin
 1918 – 1920: Russian Civil War
 1923: USSR officially comes into being
 1924: Death of Lenin
 1924-1929: Stalin outmanoeuvres political
opponents and establishes dictatorship
 1929 – 1939: Stalin introduces 5 year plans,
collectivised agriculture and engages in mass purging

8. Growth of Soviet Power – Foreign Relations
 1934: USSR joins League of Nations
 1939: Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact
 1939 – 1940: When Hitler attacks Poland from the
West, Stalin takes Eastern Poland and the Baltic
states
 1941 – 1943: Hitler invades the USSR – known to the
Soviets as the Great Patriotic War
 1944: US opens a second front against Hitler in the
West – Stalin had demanded one since 1942
 1945: End of WWII, post war negotiations begin