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1
Q

how was WWI destabilizing

A
  • postwar pessimism
  • people no longer trusted democracies
  • European countries in shambles
  • soldiers embraced political extremes
2
Q

Russia after WWI

A
  • enlisted men became antiwar and wanted Russian revolution

- procommunist

3
Q

Germany after WWI

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after street wars, Fascism became the popular belief

4
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France after WWI

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many people and soldiers became pacifist

5
Q

what lead to Russian revolution

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  • failure of populists
  • shift from reform to revolution
  • abruptness of industrialization
  • lack of middle class
  • destabilization due to effects of war
  • people hated old regime
  • Lenin was manipulative
6
Q

rough outline of Russian communism

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  • Russian revolution
  • civil war
  • from Lenin to stalin
  • Ukrainian Famine
7
Q

Key Russians

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  • Czar Nicholas II
  • Rasputin
  • Lenin
  • Trotsky