World History › Section W · Between the wars › Topic W.2
The formation of the Soviet Union
In fifteen years the Bolsheviks won a civil war, built a union of Soviet republics and handed power to Joseph Stalin, who forced through industrialisation and collectivisation at a cost of millions of lives.
In this topic
- Civil war and war communism
- Retreat to the NEP and a new Union
- Stalin's rise
- The first Five-Year Plan
- Collectivisation and the kulaks
- Worked example: reading "Dizzy with Success"
- Famine, 1931 to 1933
- Worked example: was the Holodomor genocide?
- The Great Terror
- Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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