Notes
- Lenin set up comintern (communist international) to spread the revolution worldwide
- Led to signing deals with countries to rebuild
- Treaty of Rapallo -Russians made war material for the Germans (against the Treaty of Versailles)
- received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
- 1022 Bolshecvik Party became the Communist Party
- russia became the Soviet Union (USSR)
Summary
After Lenin was shot in 1921, Trotsky and Stalin both fought for the higher power. This struggle went on for 3 years until Stalin took the power and expelled Trotsky from the Soviet Union.
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"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." -Joseph Stalin
Subjunctive Question
If Lenin wasn't murdered, how would he have impacted Russia?