WH3.1.5 Stalin's USSR

Topic: Rise of Authoritarian Regimes - Stalin's USSR
Enquiry-question: Was the rise of Stalin inevitable?

Review: Were attempts to establish peace after WWI succeed?
1. the League of Nations:

• successes: conflict resolution, Locarno Pact, socio-economic improvements
• failures: invasion of the Ruhr, Italy in Abyssinia, Japan in Manchuria, Germany in the Rhineland

2. the role of the US:

• disarmament initiatives: Washington, Kellogg-Briand Pact
• economic loans: Dawes and Young Plans

Understanding Goals: When did authoritarianism emerge in Russia?
1. Russia before WWI:

• socio-economic conditions: poverty and revolt - is there a link?
  
• the rule of the Tsar: monarchy and misrule - who is to blame?
  
• Russo-Japanese War (1905) & Bloody Sunday (1910) - why no revolution?
  

2. Russia during WWI:

• Feb Revolution: Liberals under the Provisional Government - what went wrong?
  
• October Revolution: Lenin and the Bolsheviks - why did they succeed?
  
• Treaty of Brest-Litvosk: what were the gains and losses?
  

3. Russia after WWI:

• Russian Civil War: Red vs. Whites - who were involved and what was the significance?
  
• War Communism: the beginning of authoritarianism?
  
• New Economic Policy: reversal of communism?

Performances: Is it easy to start a revolution? Draw a mindmap to show the relationship between chapters 2 and 3.

Bolshevik Russia

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