Notes
- Lenin set up the comintern (communist international) to spread the revolution worldwide
- Led to signing deals with countries to rebuild
- Treaty of Rapallo - Russians made war material for the Germans (against the Treaty of Versailles)
- Received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
- 1922 Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party
- Russia became the Soviet Union
- Lenin was shot in 1921 - never fully recovered
- Dies in January 1924
- Led to signing deals with countries to rebuild
- Treaty of Rapallo - Russians made war material for the Germans (against the Treaty of Versailles)
- Received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
- 1922 Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party
- Russia became the Soviet Union
- Lenin was shot in 1921 - never fully recovered
- Dies in January 1924
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Lenin officially declares Russia a communist state and dies in 1924. After his death, there was a power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.