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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. 1917: Revolution in a Single Year. Causes of the Revolution . Pressure/Problems of WWI Activities from various parties plotted revolution Why? Feb 1917- Tsar Nicholas II forced to abdicate Romanov dynasty ends after 3000 years

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

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  1. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1917: Revolution in a Single Year

  2. Causes of the Revolution • Pressure/Problems of WWI • Activities from various parties plotted revolution • Why? • Feb 1917- Tsar Nicholas II forced to abdicate • Romanov dynasty ends after 3000 years • Provisional gov’t (Consisting of middle-class politicians and some socialist leaders) take over

  3. Tsar rule ends.. Now what? • If you were living in Russia what type of rule would you desire? • Explain.

  4. Revolution= Massive Social Upheaval • WWI- Ordinary soldiers deserted in substantial numbers and despised upper-class officers • Major industrial centers: • New trade unions arose • Some workers seized factories • “Soviets”- (Grassroots organization) emerged to speak for ordinary people • Some peasants seized estates and burned manor houses

  5. Provisional Government Fails • Fails to control revolutionary masses • Refused to take Russia out of WWI • Bolsheviks (Small socialist group led by Lenin) rose to power • Question: Why were the Bolsheviks able to ride the Russian Revolution to power?

  6. Goals of the Bolsheviks • End WWI • Land for peasants • Workers’ control of factories • Self-determination for non-Russian nationalities (example- Ukraine, Poland) • End of Provisional gov’t and Lenin taking over

  7. Civil War (1918-1921) • Bolsheviks seized power in late October 1917 • Three-year civil war broke out • Bolsheviks (calling their party “Communist”) battled an assortment of enemies-tsarist officials, landlords, regional nationalist groups, as well as troops from U.S., G.B., France and Japan- all of which were eager to crush the communist regime • Bolsheviks won

  8. Bolshevik Victory • During Civil War the Bolsheviks took over the economy, seized grain from angry peasants, suppressed rebellions. • Integrated many lower-class men into Red Army (Bolsheviks military forces) • Defended against outside attack (U.S., France, Japan and GB) • Shortly after war ended they renamed country- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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