THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917 “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917

“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”

THE HOME FRONT

War causes much suffering

entire country mobilized

patriotism limited & waning

scarcities of necessities

mass inflation

strikes and protests

further loss of confidence in tsarist govt.

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Tsar & Grand Duke Nikolai NikolaevichGrigorii Rasputin

Female soldiers

FEBRUARY REVOLUTION

Increasing unrest

International Women’s Day: Feb. 24/March 7

Women’s protest joined by workers & soldiers

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917

Tsar abdicates ending 300 years of Romanov rule

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917

RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

“DUAL POWER”

Creation of Provisional Government

Establishment of Soviets

Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ & Soldiers’ Deputies

Provisional Government

Alexander Kerensky

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917

RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

Provisional Government has many problems

the war

general chaos

the peasants

awaiting Constituent Assembly

Pro-Soviet demonstration1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death

the Soviets

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917

RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

“All power to the Soviets”

“July Days”

“The Kornilov Affair”

General Lavr Kornilov

formation of Red Guards

Bolsheviks’ platform: “Land, Bread, and Peace”

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

The Bolshevik Plan

establish Military Revolutionary Committee

Lenin argues for Oct. 25 action

Grigorii Zinoviev & Lev Kamenev oppose plan

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

The Final Act

Red Guards, soldiers, sailors take control of Petrograd, Oct 24-25 (Nov 6-7)

Take Winter Palace & arrest Provisional Govt.