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NAME DATE: ACTIVITY 3: TEXT ANALYSIS ACTIVATED Directions: Analyze the texts below and complete the questions that follow. AIM: Why did Vladimir Lenin found the Soviet Union? VLADIMIR LENIN'S REASONS FOR CREATING THE SOVIET UNION (USSR) ACTIVITY 1: DO NOW According to Vladimir Lenin, how is a dictatorship in Russia really a democracy for the people? How were they excluded in society before? Directions: Answer the questions below. 2. According to the last paragraph, if you worked a high-paying job in Czar Nicholas' Russia such as for the police, the army, or the bureaucracy, what will be different about your salary in the USSR? "The dictatorship of the proletariat (working class), be, the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously How would the poor have a voice in the Soviet Union as opposed to Imperial with an immense expansion of democracy, Russia or in a capitalist state? CZAR NICHOLAS II VLADIMIR LENIN which for the first time becomes democracy it of the Russian Imponal Family. Propaganda picturing Lanin to promote the Russian Communist Party for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the 1. Recall: What were living cond conditions like for the people of Russia just before the revolution occurred there? dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists.. Who makes up the majority of Russia - the proletariat (the working class) or 2. How might week and starving people with terrible living conditions feel the leader on the left? What about the the rich? Why do you think he is trying so har to gain the proletariat's leader on the right? Who might they support after World War I? And so in capitalist society we have a support? democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will ACTIVITY 2: TEXT ANALYSIS or the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the Directions: Analyze the text below and complete the questions that follow, 5. Explain what Vladimir Lenin finds mm necessary suppression of the exploiters, of is wrong about a capitalist society. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 successfully forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate (give up p the throne). the minority..." a group of elected officials called the 'Duma' took con youa took control of the country. However, in November under the leadership of Viedimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks took control of the implemented a dictatorship that put Vladimir Lenin in absolute control of Russia "Abolition of the police, the army and the government where the le bureaucracy \\(as they were). The salaries of support from the in people because he promised them "peace, land, and bread. The Russians then all officials, all of whom are elective and signed a peace treaty with Germany which removed them from World War I before it was even over. displaceable at any time, not to exceed the 6. YOUR OPINION: Are the problems that Lenin finds with a capitalist society Of course, many Russians still supported the Czar. As a result, Russia entered a Civil War from 1917-1922. average wage of a competent worker." visible in American society today? Choose one quote from his writing and explain why it does or does NOT apply to the United States today. SOURCE: The State and Revolution - a 1917 book by Russia was renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (The USSR), aka, the Soviet Mladimir Lenin in which he describes the role of he State in society, the necessity of proletarian SOURCE : Cliff, Tony (1636). Building the Party: Lenin, 1383-1914. 3: Hill, Christopher (1471). Lenin and the Russian Revolution. acy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat (working class). What is a DICTATORSHIP? Was this a step forwards or backwards for Russia Last paragraph is from the April Theses, 1917 ACTIVITY 4: ASSESSMENT 2. How did Vladimir Lenin gain support for the creation of the first com + state? How was everyone equal in this new Russian Directions: Choose an option below and complete on looseleaf for an assessment grade. society? OPTION A OPTION B Create your own propaganda. Choose one paragraph from In a paragraph of 6-8 sentences, answer Lenin's writings in Activity 3 to base your propaganda on. You Lemin found the Soviet Union?" Why do you think Karl Marx's ideas for a comm ure (a'stick figure pieces of eviden from today's activities the Russian peasants have preferred? should have a figure toy bubble explaining what this figure would like to change about society. Bonus points if you make it dramatic