Communism

USSR

Soviet

Union

and Satellite Nations

1989: Tiananmen

Square in China

1950: Korean War

Timeline of Communism in the 20th Century

1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990

Communism in the USSR (1917 – 1989)

Communism in China (1949 – present)

“Cold War”

Communist Revolution in Russia (1917)

Communist Revolution in China (1949) 1966: China’s

“Cultural Revolution”

Vietnam War 1989:

Fall of Communism in the USSR

Origins of Communism

• Karl Marx: Father of Communism wrote Communist Manifesto

• Asked workers (proletariat) of the world to revolt and take control of the “means of production”

Communism

• Socialism: a type of economic system in which gov’t runs the economy for the entire society

• Communism: socialism with totalitarian dictatorship

• Marxism: communism with violent radical revolution – CLASS STRUGGLE

Communism comes to Russia

• Life under the Czar:• Too many poor peasants• Not enough land or food• Hate being involved in WW1

• By 1915, many soldiers do not have

weapons or ammunition

• Russia remained unindustrialized

No supplies for the troops (not enough railroads or factories)

Hello!

I FEEL RIGHT AT HOME!

MAMMA’S HAPPY!

Group of nobles

moika palace

WELCOME TO MY CRIB !

Prince Felix Yusupov

I’M FEELING OK !

I’M STILL

FEELING OK !

BAM !

BAM !

BAM !

FUNNY…MY

BACK IS ITCHY !

POW !

BAM !BOOM

!

SPLASH !

I DON’T FEEL SO HOT…

HELP !!!

!HELP… I’M

DROWNING !

I’LL BE BACK !

The Provisional Government

• Czar Nicholas II abdicated (gave up the throne)

• A moderate temporary gov’t was created

The Bolsheviks

• Name of the Communist Party in Russia• Began the Communist Revolution• Led by Vladimir Lenin - RADICAL• Offered the poor “Bread, land,

and peace”

1917 Revolution

• Bolsheviks overthrew provisional gov’t• Created new Communist nation USSR

Russian Civil War

• Red Army (communists) vs. White Army (supporters of Czar)

• Red Army won! Killed millions

Cheka (secret police)

Assassination of Czar & family

Lenin’s U.S.S.R.

• The U.S.S.R.• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – aka

“Soviet Union”

“The most striking thing was the utter unexpectedness of it, like a train crash in the night, like a bridge crumbling beneath your

feet, like a house falling down”

Bye!

Russia lost:

• Most of its land in Europe

•32% of its farmland

•34% of its population•54% of its industry

89% of its coalmines

• The Russian banks were all nationalized.• Control of the factories was given to the

soviets.• Private bank accounts were confiscated.• The Church's properties (including bank

accounts) were seized.• Wages were fixed at higher rates than during

the war and a shorter, eight-hour working day was introduced.

Decree on Land

Private Property

Treatment of the Wealthy

Princess Golitsyn sold homemade pies on the street

Baroness Wrangel sold knitwear

One baroness sold a diamond broach for 5,000 rubles (the cost of a bag of flour)

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New Economic Policy• Lenin’s plan to help the economy• The gov’t would control only major businesses• People could control small businesses and

earn profit (limited capitalism)

Stalin’s U.S.S.R.

• Joseph Stalin: Took over after Lenin’s death• Became a brutal dictator

Totalitarian State:

• Only one political party allowed → the Communist Party• Controlled all aspects of life• Put state concerns ahead of your own

Collectivization

• Stalin’s plan to improve farming• Eliminated small farms – they were “collected” onto large,

state-run farms • If you refused, you DIED

5-Year Plan

• Stalin’s plan to industrialize• Focused on heavy industry (military, steel, mining,

farm machines)• Not on consumer goods (things for people’s lives)

Purges

• Stalin’s attempt to eliminate anyone that could threaten his control

• Many government officials were imprisoned or executed

Ex. Trotsky exiled and killed

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World War II

• Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler

• Germany attacked the USSR → the USSR joined the “Allies”

The Cold WarI’ll help fight Japan and I’ll totally allow

free elections in Eastern European

countries soon.Yeah RIGHT

The Cold War

Roots of the Cold War:• There was a war of ideas between two sides (U.S. and

U.S.S.R.)• There was a great deal of mistrust after World War II• The way Europe was divided up after WW II caused an

uneasy tension

Cold War Terms:

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic

an "iron curtain" has descended across the Continent.

• Iron Curtain: name for the imaginary dividing line between the Democratic Western European nations and the Communist East European nations

Cold War Terms:

• Eastern Bloc: the group of nations – that were communist – in Eastern Europe (behind the “Iron Curtain”)

• “satellites”: Another name for the “Eastern Bloc” nations• Countries that were “controlled” by and near the USSR

The 2 SidesAlliance

Leading Nation

Foreign Policy

Economic System

Type of Government

N.A.T.O. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

The Warsaw Pact

USA USSR

Containment – stop the spread of communism

Marxism – spread Communism through rev

Market economyCommand economy

Republic Totalitarian (communist)

Command Economy

• “Central Planning”• State-control of production, quotas,

distributionAll economic decisions made by gov’t

• NO private business only GOV’T ownership

Containment

Events of the Cold War

• Marshall Plan / Truman Doctrine:

• U.S. offered billions of $ to help rebuild European nations after WW2 as long as they were NOT communist

You can go,But I’m not leaving!

Germany should stay weak!

Berlin Airlift

No road travel in or out of West Berlin

Help! We need food! We’re

starving!

Eventually, I Hope that Allies will just give up West Berlin

to the USSR

• Communists tried a blockade to force the allies out of Berlin (in East Germany)

Operation Little Vittles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_airlift#Operation_Little_Vittles

Fine!

Forcing Stalin to give up the blockade

Arms Race:

• a race between 2 “super powers” (U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.) to gather bigger, better and more weapons

MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction

Space Race

• A race for national pride mostly• It began when the Soviets put the first satellite,

“Sputnik” into orbit

Berlin Wall• The wall became the

symbol of the Cold War • The Communists put up a

wall to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin

Cuban Missile Crisis The Soviets put nuclear missiles in Cuba

U.S. President JFK ordered a blockade of Cuba and told the USSR to remove the missiles

The closest the world ever came to nuclear destruction

The Soviet Union backed down and pulled the missiles out

Brinksmanshipreplaced

By détente

• Détente: French noun– (a) relaxation of a

person; – release of a spring, – slackening of a rope, – easing of relations

A “warming” of tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. (1970’s – 1980’s)

Relieves Cold War tension!

President Nixon met with the leaders of

USSR and China

USSR and China

SALT I

(Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

reduce # of ICBMs and submarine missiles

reduce # of ICBMs and submarine missiles

Helsinki Accords

Treaties were signed that limited nuclear weapons in each nation (ex. SALT)

Fall of the USSR - CAUSES

• Changing of the Guard• A new, younger generation leader was chosen – Mikhail

Gorbechev

FALL OF THE USSR

• Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) symbol of the end of the Cold War

Fall of the USSR - CAUSES

• Glasnost: “openness” examples: some freedom of religion and press

• Perestroika: “restructuring” examples: allow some capitalism

Failure of the economy:

• Too much sacrificing “butter for guns” (too much military spending-not consumer!)

• Perestroika weakened an already poor economy

Challenges to the Soviet control of satellite nations

• Began with workers in Poland• Other “Eastern Bloc” nations did the same

It’s time tobreak free!

Break-up of the USSR

• After seeing Warsaw Pact nations end communism, Soviet citizens wanted the same thing

• Protests were not stopped and the Republics turned into separate independent nations

Results of the fall of the USSR• New nations formed:• Russia became the largest most important• Some of the Republics formed an economic alliance

called the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Results of the fall of the USSR

• Effects on world communism: other Communist nations suffered (no more support from the U.S.S.R.)

• Ending of the Cold War: no more U.S.S.R., no more cold war

Russia

Kazakhstan

KyrgyzstanTajikistan

Uzbekistan

Turkmenistan

Russia and neighbors after the fall of Communism

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Ukraine

Belarus

Lithuania

Latvia

Estonia