Life in Lenin’s Russia Lesson Plan

Lesson Snapshot:

• Russia by 1918 appeared to be in the hands of the communists (the Bolshevik Party) led by Lenin.
• The Provisional Government had been overthrown and the Bolsheviks had appeared to have gained power in Russia and that the country’s problems seemed to be over.
• In fact, those problems had only just begun.
  What was life like?
• Life improved for many ordinary people in Lenin’s Russia. But Russia was now a dictatorship and anyone who openly criticised Communism risked losing their life.
• Five aspects of the communist state
• The Bolsheviks wanted to set up a Communist state. This comprised of five aspects:
• Peace – as promised, Lenin made the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in 1918. Russia was to lose a great deal of land which included 60 million people. The land also included 25% of her farming land and 75% of her iron ore and coal deposits.
• Communist economy – the Bolsheviks gave the land previously owned by the nobles to the peasants, and factories were handed over to workers’ committees.

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