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Joseph Stalin came to power in the Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1922, winning a power struggle for control. In the decades prior to World War 2, Stalin instituted policies like collectivization, industrialization, and purges that strengthened the Soviet Union but also led to famines and gulags. During the war, the Soviet Union initially signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with Nazi Germany in 1939 and invaded neighboring countries, but was then invaded by Germany in 1941 in a massive operation called Operation Barbarossa. After enduring huge losses, the Soviet Union began pushing the Germans back starting in 1943 and eventually took Berlin in 1945, playing a major role in defeating Nazi Germany.
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Potsdam Conference
July 16 – August 2, 1945
• Leaders agreed that
Germany must be
defeated and de - Nazified
• Leaders disagreed over
post – war Germany and
Eastern Europe
• Britain and United States
wanted free elections
• Stalin feared anti – Soviet
governments in Eastern
Europe
Expansion of Communism
• Russia in 1917 due to revolution
• Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
Hungary, Poland and Romania following World War II
in 1945
• North Korea following World War II in 1945
• China in 1949 following World War II and civil war
• Cuba in 1959 following a revolution
• Vietnam in 1975 following the Vietnam War
Prelude to Russian Revolution
• By 1900, withdrawal of European investments in
Russia weakened industrial and economic
development
• Defeat in the Russo – Japanese War in 1905
devastated the Russian economy
• Worker strikes, peasant uprisings and military
mutinies spread across Russia in 1905
• Struggling industrial class resented the lack of
government action against unions and strikes
Bloody Sunday
• On January 22, 1905, in
St. Petersburg, around
3,000 workers marched
on the Winter Palace
• Imperial guards fired
upon and kill nearly 200
people
• Tsar Nicholas II was
blamed for the incident
• Initiated widespread
strikes and protest
Russia to World War I
• By 1907, political unrest led to the rise of new
political groups, including the Bolsheviks
• Widespread worker strikes stagnated industrial and
economic growth
• Unprepared for the outbreak of World War I
• Russian military was poorly led, armed, supplied
and trained
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morale in the military and the populace
The Russian Revolution
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protest over food
rationing erupted in St.
Petersburg
• On March 15, 1917, Tsar
Nicholas II was forced to
abdicate and a
provisional government is
installed
• In July 1917, Bolsheviks
under Lenin rose in revolt
and gained power by
October
Vladimir Lenin
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in south central Russia
• Trained as a lawyer
• Execution of his brother
in 1887 made him anti-
tsarists
• Became involved with a
Marxist group in St.
Petersburg in 1893
Vladimir Lenin
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• Exiled for three years to Siberia in 1897
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• Continued to print Marxist publications
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the party
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worker and military
support
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World War
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- 1. The Soviet Union in WWII
- 2. Joseph Stalin • Lenin suffered a stroke in 1922 and died • By the time Lenin died, he did not like Stalin • After Lenin died, there was a power struggle to see who would take over • Stalin won and was in power by the late 1920’s
- 3. USSR Prior to WWII • Russia drops out of WWII(1917) to fight Bolshevik Revolution • Russia became communist and changed name to USSR in 1922 • Purges and deportations to slave labor camps in Siberia(Gulags) • Strengthened the intelligence and secret service • Created a “Cult of Personality” • Nationalization and Collectivization of the Soviet economy • Industrialization of the Soviet economy • Five Year Plans • Policies led to famine in Ukraine(5-10 million died-considered a genocide by some) • Banned religion
- 4. USSR in WWII • Signed German-Soviet Non- Aggression Pact in 1939 leading to the invasion of Poland • Also invaded Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland in 1939 • Signed Neutrality Pact with Japan in 1941 • Invaded by Germany in June, 1941 • Stalin instituted his retreat and “scorched earth” policies • The Russian winter of 1941-42 changed the tide of the war
- 6. 1943-1944