Impact of “Revolution of 1905”. Impact of “Revolution of 1905:” The October Manifesto.

Impact of “Revolution of 1905”

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Impact of “Revolution of 1905:”The October Manifesto

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Tsar Nicholas II to Front, 1915

Alexandra left at home to rule and care for Alexei, a hemophiliac

Grigory Rasputin

Assassination

February/ March Revolution 1917

• 3/ 11 Tsar Nicholas II ordered strikers back to work and the Duma dismissed

• 3/ 12 Army and police refuse to fire on workers; instead join in attacking officers

• 3/ 12 Provisional Government and Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies

• 3/ 15 Nicholas II abdicates in favor of brother, Michael, who turns down throne

Provisional Governmentand Petrograd Soviet

March – November 1917 Alexander Kerensky

Women’s Batallion

Vladimir Lenin Returns April 1917“April Theses” and “Peace, Land,

and Bread”

Petrograd: July Days

A for the Day (first to raise hand): Who is this individual?

It is Lenin!

Kornilov Affair - September, 1917

“Red Guard” of Petrograd Soviet

October/ November Revolution:Bolshevik Revolution

Tauride Palace: Jan 1918 Constituent Assembly

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Lenin’s Initial Policies

• Allows voting for Constituent Assembly• Armistice with Germany• 1/5/1918 Allows Constituent Assembly• 1/7/1918 Dissolves Constituent Assembly• March 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk• Stripped church of power• Establishes the CHEKA• Suppresses hostile newspapers• Private ownership abolished; all resources to state• Edict on Child Welfare -gov’t to help, socialist upbringing

Russian Civil War, 1918-1921

Reds vs. Whites

Russian Civil War, 1918-1921

Reds’ WAR COMMUNISM-All large factories to be controlled by the

government. -Production planned and organized by the

government. -Discipline for workers was strict, and strikers shot. -Requisition of agricultural surpluses from

peasants -Food and most commodities were rationed -Private enterprise became illegal. -Military-like control of railroads was introduced.

Reds victorious with brutal means:Murdered Tsar Nicholas II and family, use of CHEKA

1914-1921: 7-13 million dead war, disease, famine

Lenin Restores Order

New Economic Policy:-Replaces War Communism

-Mixed Economy: Aspects of Free Enterprise

-Improves economy while empowering peasants

Equal Rights for Women

Universal Education/ Improves Literacy

Took back some lands they had lost to Germany-Ukraine, Belorussia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan

1922 Changed name to USSR (Soviet Union)

Lenin’s Testament & Death

Lenin Mausoleum

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Joseph Stalin

Re-Writing of History

Bibliography• “October Manifesto” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Repin_17October.jpg#file • “Bloody Sunday” http://www.smfc.k12.ca.us/stage/lalosh2/BloodySunday.jpg• “BBC News” http://news.bbc.co.uk/• “Web Wiz” http://www.ssdec.nsw.edu.au/• “Rasputin” http://www.kosaken.de/• “SAC 1904-1917” http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/• “Rasputin” http://www.tourarena.com/• “Kerensky” http://www.iupui.edu/~histwhs/• “Monica Spivac” http://www.unc.edu/• “War Communism” http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/• “War Communism” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/• “Stalin’s and Lenin’s Bodies” http://stalin.narod.ru/ • “Joseph Stalin Biography” http://www.stel.ru/stalin/• “Lenin and Trotsky” http://blog.johnmenick.com/category/photography