https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo Made with mirth en-us 2022-05-13 01:05:20 UTC 2022-06-29 00:58:12 UTC hello@padlet.com teaunglol https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2225579099 Stalin became supreme leader of the Soviet Union by 1929.]]> 2022-06-20 08:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2225579099 https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2225716956 This day marked the start of the first five-year plan. ]]> 2022-06-20 12:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2225716956 https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2226936486 the second five-year plan started. 
(focused on developing heavy industries)
there was an increase in the amount of coal, steel, oil and electricity produced]]> 2022-06-21 15:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2226936486 ithinkiforgot https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2227407278 The third five-year plan started.

 The Soviet Union generally witnessed an economic slowdown and industries such as oil and steel stopped growing, as emphasis was placed on greater planning and coordination.]]> 2022-06-22 03:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2227407278 https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2227449589 Start of the Great Terror that lasted until 1938
- characterised by show trials, purges, arrests, interrogations, widespread police surveillance and executions
- Purpose: To enable Stalin to consolidate his power and root out (potential) threats in the party]]> 2022-06-22 03:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2227449589 https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2228975935 the great famine happened in 1932 until 1934 because of collectivisation where the government controlled the use of agriculture for the people, thus 7 million peasants died due to starvation]]> 2022-06-23 15:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2228975935 https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2228983473 Trotsky returned to Russia from exile in Europe and joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks to urge the overthrow of the Provisional Government. ]]> 2022-06-23 15:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2228983473 Claresta https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2230519806 Russia went into civil war as the Bolsheviks and the Red Army competed for power against the ‘Whites’ or anti-communists with the collapse of the Provisional Government. The civil war lasted until October 1922 with victory to the Bolsheviks. Therefore, at the end of the civil war, Russia officially became a communist state.]]> 2022-06-26 05:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2230519806 https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2232811031 Russian provisional government could not control revolutionary forces sweeping Russia and was overthrown

Why: 
- provisional govt refused to pull out of WWI
- economic hardships
- political problems
- strikes, uprisings ]]> 2022-06-28 23:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2232811031 https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2232812641 Lenin died in January 1924, this was one of the reasons for the rise of Stalin. He warned in his testament that Stalin could not be trusted to use power wisely. However, the members of the party all agreed to not disclose the testament to the public as Lenin had criticised all of them in it. 
The party ignored Lenin’s warning and let Stalin keep his Secretary General post which he used to great effect during his rise to power. ]]> 2022-06-28 23:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2232812641 https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2232880411 the end of the third 5 year plan, which only ran for 3 and a half years. it ended when Germany invaded the Soviet Union during WW2.]]> 2022-06-29 00:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/law_huizhen_sha/mqjk0fgzc1cr2gdo/wish/2232880411