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RISE OF COMMUNISM

RISE OF COMMUNISM. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE BOLSHEVIKS. ISSUES IN RUSSIA. CZAR NICHOLAS IS DISTANT FROM HIS PEOPLE PEOPLE ARE STARVING AND OUT OF WORK WAR IS FINANCIALLY DESTROYING THE COUNTRY THERE IS A SMALL MINORITY OF WEALTHY WHO HAVE POWER AND A MAJORITY ARE POOR WITH NO POWER

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RISE OF COMMUNISM

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  1. RISE OF COMMUNISM THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE BOLSHEVIKS

  2. ISSUES IN RUSSIA CZAR NICHOLAS IS DISTANT FROM HIS PEOPLE PEOPLE ARE STARVING AND OUT OF WORK WAR IS FINANCIALLY DESTROYING THE COUNTRY THERE IS A SMALL MINORITY OF WEALTHY WHO HAVE POWER AND A MAJORITY ARE POOR WITH NO POWER COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY OF KARL MARX IS EMBRACED BY POOR – TALKS OF SHARING WEALTH AND END TO CZARIST RULE

  3. THE BOLSHEVIKS • LED BY VLADIMIR LENIN • LENIN WAS EDUCATED IN GERMANY WHERE THE MARXIST IDEA WAS WRITTEN • HE WAS KICKED OUT OF RUSSIA PRIOR TO RECEIVING EDUCATION FOR BEING A REVOLUTIONARY • BOLSHEVIKS BELIEVED: • REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH – SHARING WEALTH • RIGHTS AND POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE WORKERS • CZAR SYMBOLIZED ALL THAT WAS WRONG IN RUSSIA • ADVANCING RUSSIA MEANT CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT • GETTING RUSSIA OUT OF WAR WAS VITAL

  4. WHAT HAPPENED • CZAR NICHOLAS – MADE SOME FOOLISH DECISIONS • KEPT RUSSIA IN WAR • ISOLATED HIMSELF IN ROYAL PALACE • IGNORED PLIGHT OF PEOPLE • MADE DEAL WITH MADMAN, RASPUTIN • BOLSHEVIKS • SLOWLY BUILD UP A FOLLOWING WITH POOR WORKERS • STORM ROYAL PALACE AND TAKE CONTROL OF ROYAL FAMILY • EXECUTE ROYAL FAMILY AND TAKE CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT • PULL RUSSIAN ARMY OUT OF WAR AND MAKE PEACE DEAL WITH GERMANY

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