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Carlos Reina

Card 1• Source:

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/socialist_revolutionaries.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin

• Subject: Russia Moves to socialism• Keywords: Vladimir Lenin• Abstract: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21

January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system. This is about Vladimir Lenin the great leader of the Russian Revolution. This is a brief summary of all his life and what he did.

Card 2• Source: http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/events/revolution/index.htm• Subject: Russian Revolution• Keyword: Soviet Union• Abstract: In 1917 Russia went through two revolutions: February 24 - 29 and

October 24 - 25. The first revolution overthrew the tsarist government and replaced it with a Provisional Government of Duma members (mostly members of the Cadet party), who allowed a Contact Commission of the Petrograd Soviet to advise the government. Protests and strikes against the new government quickly grew as Russia's involvement in World War I lingered on, and the Provisional Government responded by establishing a Coalition Government with the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. The Russian revolution was divided in to parts the February and October Revolution. People did not like the Provincional Government and were against war world one. Later they made a civil war and the Bolshevik won and made a Soviet nation.

Card 3• Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/494046/Red-

Army• Subject: Russian Army• Key Word: Red Army• Abstract: The Russian imperial army and navy, together with other

imperial institutions of tsarist Russia, disintegrated after the outbreak of the revolutions of 1917. By a decree of Jan. 28 (Jan. 15, Old Style), 1918, the Council of People’s Commissars created a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army on a voluntary basis. The first units, fighting with a revolutionary fervor, distinguished themselves against the Germans at Narva and Pskov on Feb. 23, 1918, which became Soviet. This is how the Red Army was formed. They united in the civil war and defeated the white army. Later they formed as the biggest army in the world.

Card 4• Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)• Subject: War World 2• Keyword: Great Patriotic War• Abstract: The Eastern Front of World War II (Russian: Великая

Отечественная Война ("Great Patriotic War", or, literally, "Great Fatherland War"); German: die Ostfront 1941–1945, der Rußlandfeldzug 1941–1945 (Russian campaign) or der Ostfeldzug 1941–1945 (Eastern Campaign) was a theatre of war between the European Axis powers, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Croatia and Finland (not an Axis member), and the Soviet Union which encompassed northern, southern and eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It’s the Eastern Front of war world 2. Where the Soviet Union fought against Nazis. They suffered the biggest battles, but they won the war by invading Berlin.

Card 5• Source: Wikipedia• Subject: Joseph Stalin• Keyword: Stalin• Abstract: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb

Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Georgian or in Russian patronymic nomenclature Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; 18 December 1878– 5 March 1953) was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union. He was the Leader of the Soviet Union. The 3 Chairman of Councils of USSR. He won WW2 and made bigger the USSR.

Card 6• Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev• Subject: Nikita Khrushchev• Keyword: Khrushchev• Abstract: Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 15, 1894 – September 11,

1971) led the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev. He was the Secretary of the Chairman of Council of the USSR. He was in Russia during the cold war. He made a lot of progression in the USSR. He was a leader in WW2.