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Impact of “Revolution of 1905”. Impact of “Revolution of 1905:” The October Manifesto. Tsar Nicholas II to Front, 1915. Alexandra left at home to rule and care for Alexei, a hemophiliac. Grigory Rasputin. Assassination. February/ March Revolution 1917.
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Alexandra left at home to rule and care for Alexei, a hemophiliac
February/ March Revolution 1917 • 3/ 11 Tsar Nicholas II ordered strikers back to work and the Duma dismissed • 3/ 12 Army and police refuse to fire on workers; instead join in attacking officers • 3/ 12 Provisional Government and Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies • 3/ 15 Nicholas II abdicates in favor of brother, Michael, who turns down throne
Provisional Governmentand Petrograd SovietMarch – November 1917 Alexander Kerensky
Vladimir Lenin Returns April 1917“April Theses” and “Peace, Land, and Bread”
A for the Day (first to raise hand): Who is this individual?
Lenin’s Initial Policies • Allows voting for Constituent Assembly • Armistice with Germany • 1/5/1918 Allows Constituent Assembly • 1/7/1918 Dissolves Constituent Assembly • March 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk • Stripped church of power • Establishes the CHEKA • Suppresses hostile newspapers • Private ownership abolished; all resources to state • Edict on Child Welfare -gov’t to help, socialist upbringing
Russian Civil War, 1918-1921 Reds’ WAR COMMUNISM -All large factories to be controlled by the government. -Production planned and organized by the government. -Discipline for workers was strict, and strikers shot. -Requisition of agricultural surpluses from peasants -Food and most commodities were rationed -Private enterprise became illegal. -Military-like control of railroads was introduced. Reds victorious with brutal means: Murdered Tsar Nicholas II and family, use of CHEKA 1914-1921: 7-13 million dead war, disease, famine
Lenin Restores Order New Economic Policy: -Replaces War Communism -Mixed Economy: Aspects of Free Enterprise -Improves economy while empowering peasants Equal Rights for Women Universal Education/ Improves Literacy Took back some lands they had lost to Germany -Ukraine, Belorussia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan 1922 Changed name to USSR (Soviet Union)
Bibliography • “October Manifesto” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Repin_17October.jpg#file • “Bloody Sunday” http://www.smfc.k12.ca.us/stage/lalosh2/BloodySunday.jpg • “BBC News” http://news.bbc.co.uk/ • “Web Wiz” http://www.ssdec.nsw.edu.au/ • “Rasputin” http://www.kosaken.de/ • “SAC 1904-1917” http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/ • “Rasputin” http://www.tourarena.com/ • “Kerensky” http://www.iupui.edu/~histwhs/ • “Monica Spivac” http://www.unc.edu/ • “War Communism” http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/ • “War Communism” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ • “Stalin’s and Lenin’s Bodies” http://stalin.narod.ru/ • “Joseph Stalin Biography” http://www.stel.ru/stalin/ • “Lenin and Trotsky” http://blog.johnmenick.com/category/photography