22: Unite and Take Over!

The segments of this lecture are:

• 22a: Unite and Take Over!
• 22b: The Uncivilized Wars
• 22c: War Communism
• 22d: The Soviet Union Is Created
  
• 22e: Conclusions
  

 Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events:

Communist Party, Declaration of Rights, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, White Russian Movement, Greens, War Communism, Red Army, Central Committee, Kronshtadt Rebellion, Soviet Union, Comintern, New Economic Policy, smychka

Questions for consideration:

1. Compare the Declaration of Rights with the Preamble to the Constitution. What basic rights did each new government claim for its people?
   
2. What factors enabled the Bolsheviks to take on and defeat all of their opponents in the Russian Civil War?
3. What was the New Economic Policy, why was it necessary, and how well did it work?