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Russian Revolution. By Bradley Hasegawa. What it was and why it happened. The Russian Revolution is a collective term for a series of revolution the Russians had that lasted from 1917 to 1920. The first revolution occurred right before the 20's in occurred in 1917.
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Russian Revolution By Bradley Hasegawa
What it was and why it happened • The Russian Revolution is a collective term for a series of revolution the Russians had that lasted from 1917 to 1920. • The first revolution occurred right before the 20's in occurred in 1917. • Most of Russia had lost faith in their current leader Czar Nicholas II. • The Russian government was completely corrupt, the economy was horrible, and Nicholas kept dissolving the Duma, the Russian parliament. • Although the immediate cause of the first phase of the revolution was the disastrous involvement in World War I. • Militarily, imperial Russia was no match for industrialized Germany, and Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any nation in any previous war. • While all this is happening the economy is getting worse and worse because the war is sapping away at their money.
Striking and Violence • On March 8th people were hungry for food and started to protest against the current government and went to the Russian capital Petrograd. • This strike was supported by many industrial workers and civilians all wanting to their demands met • The protesters even clashed with the police but that did not discourage them at all and they still kept protesting • On March 10th the workers started destroying police station • On March 11th the local military were sent in to stop them, they even had to open fire on people to stop them but that still didn't discourage them. • On March 12th soldier after soldier defected and because of this the imperial government was forced to resign. • A new leader named Lenin became the dictator of Russia and also made Russia the first Marxist state in the world.
Russian Civil War (Red vs. White) • The next revolution happens in 1918 between the Bolsheviks (Reds) and the anti-Bolsheviks (Whites). • This was a civil war between Communism (Reds) and anti-Communism (Whites) and lasted until 1920. • The Red Army came about by making workers join the war, but they soon realized that just having workers didn't supply them with enough soldiers. • Due to that they decided to force peasants to join the war, if they refused they would be taken hostage and be killed. • The people that made up the anti-Bolsheviks were a loose confederation of anti-Bolshevik forces aligned against the Communist government voluntarily united only in their opposition to Bolshevik rule. • This included land-owners, republicans, conservatives, middle-class citizens, pro-monarchists, liberals, army generals, non-Bolshevik socialists who still had grievances and democratic reformists.
Other Issues • Anti-Bolshevik weren't the only ones who didn't like the Bolsheviks, the western allies also hated them for many reason like: • They are that upset at the withdrawal of Russia from the war effort. • They are worried about a possible Russo-German alliance, and perhaps most importantly. • Also they have a massive foreign debt that they cannot pay off. • During all this there was brutal warfare as well as a horrible winter were people froze to death from hypothermia. • In the end the Bolshevik have victory over the anti-Bolshevik and the establishment of the Soviet Union comes about.
The Aftermath • Even though the Bolshevik won the war they still suffered heavy casualties and losses • There were droughts of 1920 and 1921, as well as the 1921 famine • Disease had reached a pandemic, with 3,000,000 dying of typhus alone in 1920. • Millions more were also killed by widespread starvation and wholesale massacres by both sides. • By 1922, there were at least 7,000,000 street children in Russia as a result of nearly 10 years of devastation from the Great War and the civil war.
