RUSSIA’S REVOLUTION
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RUSSIA’S REVOLUTION By. Leslie Iljee
Causes of Russian Revolution-(1917)
Oppressive rule of 19th century czars Autocracy (total power)
Unfair governing Social inequalities
Peasants
Czar Alexander III – (1881) “Autocracy”“Orthodoxy
“Nationality” Wipe out
Revolutionaries Nationalism
Oppress of other national groups
Anti-Jewish Pogroms
Czar Nicholas II- (1894) Resists Change
Autocracy Puts Russia in to
World War I
Economic Growth Number of factory doubles in 37 years
Russia is catching up with industrial nations of Western Europe
Sergey Witte (minister) Programs to move forward. Growth of Steel Trans-Siberian Railway
Result from Industrialization Factories
Working conditions Low wages Lack of political power
Proletariats vs. Entrepreneur Rich and poor
Revolutionary Movement Karl Marx view Revolutionaries
Bolsheviks Sacrifice for radical
change Support small # of
committed revolutionaries
Lenin Mensheviks
Broad base of popular support
One of the Revolution. Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday- Jan. 22nd 1905
Who: 200,000 workers and their family
Where: Czar’s Winter Palace (St. Petersburg)
Why: for better working conditions, freedom, elected national legislature
500~1000 unarmed people were killed.
Wave of strikes and violence
Nicholas promises more freedom. Approves “Duma”- Russia’s first parliament
World War 1 –(1914) Nicholas II drags Russia in to WW1
although Russia was unprepared. 4 million soldiers, prisoners,
wounded 1915, Nicholas moves his
headquarters to the war front Rasputin the “holy man” takes over
MARCH REVOLUTION Women/Workers/ soldiers
attacked Ended Czar Nicholas II Began provisional
government –Alexander Kerensky , go on with war
Russia got even worse- peasants demanded more land , formed Soviets
LENIN RETURNS TO RUSSIAGermans way of
destroying the provisional government even more
“Secret Plan”Germans thought
Lenin would make Russia
into a worse situation Sent him in a box
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION Lenin seeks
chance of ruling Russia
-attacks the provisional government and its leaders
It was over in a matter of hours
BOLSHEVIKS IN POWER Lenin solved problems that they had during
the czar rule. Ex. Distributed farmland to peasants -Gave factory control to the workers Signed treaty Brest- Litovsk with Germany - made Russians humiliated -stopped following the Bolsheviks rule
CIVIL WAR Between the Russians
and the Germans Wanted to get rid of
Germans White vs. Reds. U. S helped support
the White Army Million people died -famine fighting
hungerRussians won
LENIN TRIES TO MAKE RUSSIA BETTER New Economic
Policy(NEP) -more like capitalism Saw nationalism as
threat SO many self Governing republics with one central government- USSR Bolsheviks – change communist party Lenin leader of
communist party not proletariat
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