Government2-USSR

**__ GOVERNMENT __ >** **__U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) [1922-1991]__** 
 * Temporary government decides to continue fighting= people take matters into their own hands
 * In 1917 Czar Nicolas II takes control of leading the army to make it better but he was no different than before
 * The troops decided to go with the crowd on strikes and that hurts the government and forces the czar to step down
 * The communism included Russia and surrounding countries
 * The government had a very strong control over the economy
 * Vladimir Lenin died so Joseph Stalin became leader
 * Russia seized control from czars
 * forced czar Nicholas II to give up throne
 * a communist state was set up by Lenin
 * The capital was moved to Moscow
 * Russia became the largest and most powerful republic of the Soviet Union
 * 15 republics in the USSR
 * like the Russian empire, the government was rigid government
 * it was basically a dictatorship
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">very powerful more power than an American president
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">iron grip on economy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">it was a communist state
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Joseph Stalin was the leader
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">cold war happened
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">the great patriotic war occurred
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Joseph Stalin took control of all farming