The First World War And Peace Settlement
Causes of The First World War;
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Experience of War;
The Impact of war on Great Britain;
The Treaty of Versailles. |
From Tsardom to Communism; Russia 1914 - 1924
Results of Bolsheviks seizure of power;
Decree on Land allows peasants to overthrow landlords. The Decree on Workers control allows workers to take over factories. 'War' on old ruling classes. Banks and Railways nationalised. The creation of the Cheka (secret police) and supression of political opponents. Constituent Assembly dissolved at gun point, January 1918, no further elections allowed and Russia now a effectively a one party state.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918 ends war with Germany. USSR enter a period of uneasy international relations with the west.
The Russian Civil war 1918 - 20
Decree on Land allows peasants to overthrow landlords. The Decree on Workers control allows workers to take over factories. 'War' on old ruling classes. Banks and Railways nationalised. The creation of the Cheka (secret police) and supression of political opponents. Constituent Assembly dissolved at gun point, January 1918, no further elections allowed and Russia now a effectively a one party state.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918 ends war with Germany. USSR enter a period of uneasy international relations with the west.
The Russian Civil war 1918 - 20
The Roaring Twenties; USA 1919 - 1929
Subject Knowledge
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