Notes
- Lenin set up comintern (communist international) spread the revolution worldwide
- Led to signing deals with countries
- Treaty of Rapallo with Germans (against treaty of Versailles) but Germans hate communism
- steel making tech. from Germany
- 1922 - Bolshevik = communist party
- Russia becomes USSR
- Lenin was shot in 1921 - never fully recovered
- Dies in Jan. 1924
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Summary
Lenin was shot in 1921 but he didn't die. He eventually died in Jan 1924. Stalin comes into control and takes over and follows the slogan "socialism in one country".
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. -Vladimir Lenin
Subjunctive Question
What would have happened if Lenin didn't die and stayed alive for many more years?