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Russian Revolutions and end of WWI ‏

Russian Revolutions and end of WWI ‏. Tsarist autocracy WWI & home front March Revolution November Revolution Civil War N ote: Julian Calendar vs Gregorian Calendar March Revolution (Feb. 1917) November Revolution (Oct. 1917). Tsarist autocracy. Tsar Nicholas II (1894-1917 reign).

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Russian Revolutions and end of WWI ‏

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  1. Russian Revolutions and end of WWI‏ Tsarist autocracy WWI & home front March Revolution November Revolution Civil War Note: Julian Calendar vs Gregorian Calendar March Revolution (Feb. 1917) November Revolution (Oct. 1917)

  2. Tsarist autocracy Tsar Nicholas II (1894-1917 reign)

  3. WWI and March Revolution Army problems Supplies & recruitment Home issues Tsarina & Rasputin March Revolution: abdication & liberal government

  4. Provisional Government March-November 1917 Power rivals: 1. Duma(liberals)‏ 2. Petrograd Soviet (Bolsheviks)‏ (St. Petersburg 1914) Russian Marxist split 1903: Bolsheviks (“majority”) Mensheviks (“minority”) Alexander Kerensky

  5. Bolshevik Revolution Vladimir IlyichUlyanov (Lenin) (1870-1924)‏ Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) (1879-1940)‏ JoesphDzhugashvili (Stalin) (1870-1953)‏ Bolshevism 1903 split: Mensheviks & Bolsheviks 1917: Lenin's opportunity November 1917: Bolshevik Revolution

  6. Lenin Lenin in 1895 Lenin in disguise: Finland, 1917 Lenin in 1920

  7. Tsarist police file on Stalin

  8. New York Times: called Bolsheviks: “political children, without the slightest understanding of the vast forces they are playing with”.

  9. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) Russia out of the war Russia lost: Finland, Poland, Baltic provinces, Ukraine Huge war indemnity Humiliation “Article I. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, for the one part, and Russia, for the other part, declare that the state of war between them has ceased. They are resolved to live henceforth in peace and amity with one another.”

  10. Red Army propaganda: Trotsky as St. George slaying the dragon [top hats associated with capitalists] White Army propaganda: Trotsky as (Jewish) red devil Russian Civil War 1918-21

  11. Wilson and moral war “Make the world safe for democracy” Fourteen Points

  12. Russia Revolution (1917) Peace (1918)‏ USA (1917)‏ Ottoman Empire (1918) Germany Offensive Spring 1918 (Western Front) 9 November 1918: Wilhelm 11 November 1918 War Ends

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