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HIST 382V: MODERN RUSSIAREACTION PAPER #2READ: Suny textbook, chap. 3, 4
WRITE a 3 page (at least, about 1,000 words) reaction paper about these chapters. Some questions you may wish to consider include: Explain Suny’s summary of the three general positions that historians have taken concerning the origin of Soviet authoritarianism. Does Suny support one of these arguments, or does he try to build a consensus? Explain.Does Suny think that the Bolsheviks had specific detailed plans for what they would do once they were in power? Why do you think this might have influenced Bolshevik actions?Who “won” the elections to the Constituent Assembly, and what did the Bolsheviks do about it? Why? And why (according to Suny) was this action so significant?Suny defines three periods of Soviet economic policy from 1917 into the 1920s. What are these?Why and when did Lenin’s government begin using terror as a political tool? What was the Cheka?Why did Lenin and Trotsky want peace with Germany in 1918? What did the Germans want at Brest-Litovsk? Did all Bolsheviks agree with Lenin’s policy towards peace with Germany? How did Lenin justify this policy? Explain.What kinds of opposition did the Bolsheviks face in Spring 1918? How did they respond?As Russia headed toward Civil War, who were the “Reds”, the “Whites”? What groups fought against the Soviet government during the Civil War?How did Trotsky reorganize the Red Army during the Civil War? What was controversial about Trotsky’s military policies?Once the Reds had won the Civil War, were the Communists popular in the countryside? How does Suny explain the reasons that the Bolsheviks won the Civil War? What were the costs?
Were all subjects of the tsarist Russian Empire Russian? Explain.In chapter 4, what is Suny’s main point about the creation of independent states in Belorussia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?What is Suny’s main point in chapter 4 about the relationship between class struggles and nationalism before 1917, during 1917, and during the Civil War?

 
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