Tag: the 1905 revolution

• After the defeat of Kolchak, the Bolsheviks brought in a policy known as War Communism.
• As per the policy, factories were nationalised, food was rationed and strikes were made illegal.

• Nationalisation means when the factories are taken away from private owners and run by the state. The profits then belong to the state.
• All factories in Russia were nationalized as per the War Communism policies.

• Karl Marx argued that capitalism is a system in which those with money pay those without money to make things happen.
• They then sell these things for a profit i.e for more than they paid the workers to make them. They use this money to hire more people and so on.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Repuplics (USSR), or The Soviet Union, was formed in 1922 by The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR which legalized the unification of Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics that had occurred from 1918. 

Though Lenin was a socialist dictator and Stalin believed in communism, both ruled with an iron fist and they eliminated those who opposed them.

The Magnitogorsk Steel Plant was a part of Stalin's first five year plan, and he wanted a industry based town after the two American cities- Gary, Indiana and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .