3. VLADIMIR LENIN
Vladimir was the leader of the
Bolsheviks and had a
communist view of the world
Karl marx was the proletariate.
The NEP allowed small
business’s to reopen for private
profit, while the state
continued to control banks,
foreign trade, and large
industries.
4. STALIN
Stalin’s great purges were when he
went out and wiped out a group of
people for political reasons, an
example would be
“Yezhovshchina”.
Stalin’s 5-year plan was to basically
modernize Soviet Russia.
Collectivization: The organization
of a nation or an economy on the
basis of collectivism.
5. MAO ZEDONG
He was a leader in China
He was a Communist
revolutionary, a Guerilla
warfare strategist, and a
marxist political philosopher.
He defeated Chiang Kai Shek,
to grab power after the “long
march”.
6. MAO CONTINUED...
The cultural revolution was when
Mao tried to increase their
farming, the red-guards controlled
the country, and hurt anyone who
thought that Mao was a poor
leader.
His great leap forward was when
he tolled all of the educated people
to quit their jobs and join the
farms, this actually just weakened
their economy, and eco-system.
7. ADOLF HITLER
Mein Kampf was a book made by Hitler.
It was a autobiography with an
exposition of his own ideology.
After the fire at the Reichstag Hitler told
the President that the Communist were
planning to take over the government, so
he had all of the arrested.
The SS were originally tasked to defend
senior Nazis, then afterwords came to
control the concentration camps.