The Early Soviet Union Questions
- Do you think that conflict was inevitable between Western Powers and the USSR? Explain your answer.
- Why was Lenin's establishment of the New Economic Policy necessary? Explain your answer.
- How did the international situation effect the growth and development of the Russian Revolution / Early Soviet Union? Explain your answer.
- Do you think that the Soviet leadership's hopes of an international revolution harmed their own revolution at home? Explain your answer.
Group Question: Explain why and how the USSR represented such a challenge to the Western capitalist world in the 1920s and what effect this had on British/French/American foreign policy.
The Early Soviet Union Research
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Wiki: First Red Scare
Post-War Economies: Russian Empire / USSR
The Soviet Union and the World Economy
Isolation Spells the Death of the Revolution
International Isolation and the USSR
Lenin's Letter to American Workers
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History: The New Economic Policy
Lenin's New Economic Policy
New Economic Policy
History: USSR Established
British Spy Agency Files
Allied Intervention in Russia
Lessons from America's Intervention in the Russian Civil War
Allied Intervention in the Russian Revolution: Point/Counterpoint
The Russian Civil War: A Marxist Analysis
Wiki: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
Wiki: First Red Scare
Post-War Economies: Russian Empire / USSR
The Soviet Union and the World Economy
Isolation Spells the Death of the Revolution
International Isolation and the USSR
Lenin's Letter to American Workers
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History: The New Economic Policy
Lenin's New Economic Policy
New Economic Policy
History: USSR Established
British Spy Agency Files
Allied Intervention in Russia
Lessons from America's Intervention in the Russian Civil War
Allied Intervention in the Russian Revolution: Point/Counterpoint
The Russian Civil War: A Marxist Analysis
Wiki: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War