HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: New Economic Policy, Red Army, Permanent Revolution
21 Feb 2017
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Had influence over the rest of the soviets. Controlled over most of the communists provisional government collapses. Appealed to soldiers, peasants- led to wide support: russian civil war. Lenin is setting up as the dictator of russia. Just pulled out of wwi and had a civil war on their hands. Civil war lasts until 1922 (reds vs. whites) Capitalist countries- (britain, us) helped whites because they feared a communist russia. International support backfired, seen as outsiders in a war that had nothing to do with them. More popular with the rank and file russians, middle class and aristocrats were seen as natural enemies. Lenin knows he needs to make the economy stable or they will not tolerate him get the economy moving again: new economic policy (nep) Wants to make economy more sufficient, then they can get the country on a path of.
