Russian Revolution

Shannon Kulac

What caused the Russian revolution?

• Russia was politically economically socially backwards

• Romanov czar ruled for 300 years• Military losses in Russo- Japanese war • Spread of liberal ideas like Democracy and

communism

Russia before the revolution

• Russia was backwards• Oppressive/conservative absolute monarchy• They had desperate poverty • 90% were illiterate peasants • There was a lack of industrialization

Who was Karl Marx?

• He was the father of communism • He was a German Philosopher • He saw history as a struggle between the

haves and the have not• He wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848• He came up with communism

Vladimir Lenin

• He was the boss of the Bolshevik party• He was the founder of the soviet state• He lead the Russian revolution• In 1921 he introduced the New Economic

Policy• He warned other against Stalin’s growing

desire for power

What is communism?

• A theory of government in which wealth and property are owned in common, and production and labor are shared equally among the people in reality the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the state

• No rich and poor• People can’t do what they want to do

What was Russia like after the revolution?

• The winner of the Russian civil war was the reds • The reds were communists• The country became known as the union of soviet

socialists republics• Joseph Stalin became boss of Russia• He created a totalitarian state• He made the Soviet union into an industrial and

political power• He had millions of Russians were tortured, imprisoned,

and murdered