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• 2.1 russian revolution

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• Give an explanation to why the Russian revolution started

  It started because Russia had internal problems which means that there was a huge gap between rich and poor. Russia also faced political problems with the Tsar. He lost support of his people and a revolution started when he used violence against the Russians during a peaceful demonstration.

• What revolution did Marx predict?

  A revolution in which the poor working class would revolt against the rich. They would take the power and form a society based on equality in which there were no individual possessions, so nobody would steal or feel hunger.

• What happened during the civil war?

  There was a red army fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism needed because there was a lot of resistance to Lenin's take over and a white army with the Pro-tsarists Russians who were against the peace treaty of Lenin. The red army won and a new country the SU was formed

• 2.1.1 Russia before 1917

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• Wat waren de interne promblemen van Rusland?

  Er was een enorme kloof tussen arm en rijk.

• Hoe regeerde Tsaar Nicolaas II Rusland?

  Met absolute macht, in de overtuiging dat God hem deze macht gegeven had.

• 2.1.4 Lenin

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• Wanneer arriveerde Lenin per trein in Petrograd?

  Op 16 april 1917.

• 2.2 The Soviet Union under Stalin

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• Gulag forced labour camps

  System of forced labour camps in which opponents of the SU were imprisoned and many people died.

• What led to a destruction of agriculture?

  The revolution, WW1 and the civil war.
  Lenin also forcefully confiscated food from the peasants to feed his red army

• What is the difference between Lenin's way of governing and Stalin's way of governing SU?

  Lenin wanted to govern su with capitalism which meant that peasants were allowed to produce for sell/themselves and businessman could own small industries so that the worst damage of the civil war could be restored. Stalin's way of governing su was turning the state into a totalitarian state. The government controls everything. He wanted to industrialise the soviet Union.

• Why/how did stalin wanted to turn the SU into an industrial superpower?

  He believed that he could outgrow the capitalist Western countries and he believed that if everybody participated as a well-oiled machine he could reach this goal.