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Revolution in Russia

Revolution in Russia. Warm-up.

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Revolution in Russia

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  1. Revolution in Russia

  2. Warm-up • In 1917, a train travels from Switzerland, guarded heavily—armored, shuttered, guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot to kill anyone who approached the train too closely. The train will make its way through Germany. Its eventual destination is Tsarist Russia. It carries a weapon that Germany hopes will knock the Russians out of World War One. • This weapon was…Vladimir Lenin

  3. March Revolution-Collapse of the Monarchy

  4. Lenin and the Bolsheviks • Revolutionaries planned to lead peasants to overthrow the czarist government • Adapted the ideas of Karl Marx • Proletariat: the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners • Applied in Russia to the peasants • Exiled, then returns to lead the November Revolution.

  5. The November Revolution • Bolshevik’s take over • Promise of “Peace, land, and Bread”

  6. Civil War • Whites verses Reds • Why did other European powers get involved in the war?

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