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Revolutions in Russia Part II: The Revolutions of 1917. Global II: Spiconardi. March Revolution. Causes World War I Nicholas II involves Russia in WWI Russian army unprepared to handle a war on this level 4 million casualties in the first year - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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March Revolution
Causes World War I
Nicholas II involves Russia in WWI Russian army unprepared to handle a war on this level
4 million casualties in the first year Nicholas goes to war front & leaves wife in charge Czarina doesn’t listen to advisors, but a mystic monk named Rasputin
March Revolution
Rasputin Claimed to have magic
healing powers Czarina Alexandra
believed he eased her son’s hemophilia
Alexandra allowed him to make key political decisions
Russian people furious “We don’t have any say
in government, but this crazy ‘holy man’ does?”
Rasputin’s Death
Russian nobles plot to assassinate Rasputin Poisoned with enough cyanide to kill five men Shot once…Didn’t die Shot three more times…didn’t die Clubbed to death….nah…still didn’t die Drowned in the Neva River…finally died
March Revolution
Strikes 200,000 workers strike shouting, “Down with autocracy! Down with
the war!” Troops fire on striking workers, but later side with them
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the thrown on March 2 Nicholas and the imperial family are killed in May 1918 under the
order of Lenin and the Bolsheviks
The Provisional Goverment
After Czar Nicholas abdicated, a provisional government under moderate Alexander Kerensky was formed Provisional government
temporary government Kerensky
Kept Russia in World War I Refused to kill imperial
family Had no support from
workers or peasants
V.I. Lenin
Leader of the Bolshevik Party Beliefs
History is the story of class struggle (student of Marxism)
Peasants and workers unable to lead a revolution; needed professional revolutionaries
Centralized government/command economy One party system
V.I. Lenin
Peace! Land! Bread! After being exiled, Germans help Lenin return to
Russia 1917 Under promise of Peace, land, and bread, Lenin
gains support of Russian people People overthrow Kerensky & provisional government in
October/November 1917
V.I. Lenin
Lenin seizes power Peace: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed to end WWI for Russians Land: Redistributed land to peasants
Civil War White Army wanted to return to rule by Czar Red Army Bolsheviks; communists REDS WIN!
V.I. Lenin
Lenin restores order after civil war New Economic Policy
Lenin allowed for some capitalism Peasants could sell surplus crops Private ownership of small factories
Government kept control of banks, telecommunications, and major industries
Only allows one political party Bolsheviks (later renamed Communist Party)
Renames Russia to the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (U.S.S.R.) RUSSIA BECOMES THE FIRST COMMUNIST COUNTRY
EVER
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