Russian+War+Comparisons

Topic || The March Revolution || The November Revolution || Causes || # Heavy loss of lives in WWI Goals || # Overthrow the Czar Results || # End of Czarist rule Lenin 1917-1924 || Both || Stalin 1924-1953 || Policies || Effects || THE NEP || # Government controlled banks, foreign trader, and large industry THE FIVE YEAR PLAN || # Government made all economic decisions
 * 1) Food Shortages
 * 2) Military defeats
 * 3) Power-hungry rulers || # Continued loss of lives in WWI
 * 4) Continued food shortages
 * 5) Continued military defeats
 * 6) Return of Lenin ||
 * 1) Set up new Russian Republic || # Bolshevik overthrow of government
 * 2) Ideals of Karl Marx applied to Russia ||
 * 1) Beginnings of a constitution
 * 2) Continued war with Germany || # Bolshevik-run soviets control government
 * 3) End of private ownership of land
 * 4) Peace with Germany
 * 5) Outbreak of civil war ||
 * # Chief goal: to create a classless society with production in the hands of the people
 * 1) Allows some private business; lets some peasants hold land
 * 2) Standard of living rises for many workers and peasants || # Spent time in Siberian exile before 1917 revolution
 * 3) Became communist party leader
 * 4) Uses secret police to enforce communist will
 * 5) Wants to bring about a worldwide communist revolution || # Chief goal: to make USSR into a modern industrial power with all production under government control
 * 6) Creates a command economy
 * 7) Brings all agriculture under government control; forces peasant to live group farms
 * 8) Standard of living falls for most workers and peasants ||
 * 1) Small business allowed to reopen
 * 2) Peasants hold onto small plots of land and freely sold surplus crops. Not entirely true.
 * 3) Government takes a percentage of grain. || # Food production rose
 * 4) Industrial output rose
 * 5) Standard of living improved ||
 * 1) Private farms turned into collectives || # Industry grew
 * 2) Standard of Living remained low. Grew later. Grows with grain
 * 3) Central planning remained inefficient
 * 4) Resistance to collectivization resulted in famine and the deaths of millions
 * 5) Grain output increased but other foods in short supply
 * 6) People in constand fear of being imprisoned, water boarded, or worse. ||