Grade 8 Spring — The 20th-Century World, the Long Civil Rights Movement as Multi-Movement Struggle, and a Civics Deep-Dive (US + Global 1898–Present, K-8 History Capstone)
History · HIS
G8
hist.g8.s.his.russian_revolution_soviet_communism
Analyze Russian Revolution and rise of Soviet Communism 1917-1922: February + October Revolutions; USSR Dec 30 1922
Trace Feb Revolution March 8-16 1917 (Tsar Nicholas II abdication) + Provisional Government Kerensky; Oct Revolution Nov 7 1917 Bolshevik takeover Lenin; Treaty of Brest-Litovsk March 3 1918; Russian Civil War 1918-21 Red v. White; USSR formed Dec 30 1922; Stalin succession 1924; named: Lenin + Trotsky + Stalin + Aleksandra Kollontai (women's rights commissar) + Rosa Luxemburg (German Spartacist 1919 murdered).
Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
50
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Successors
No declared successors.
Common misconceptions
- Conflating Bolsheviks with all socialists or all Russians — Bolsheviks were minority faction; Mensheviks + SRs + Anarchists existed
- Treating Lenin as identical to Stalin — significant doctrinal + tactical differences; Stalin's Great Purges 1936-38 + Holodomor 1932-33 are distinct phenomena