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Warm Up # 26. What conditions would need to exist for Communist Ideas to become popular and possibly spark revolution?. Russian Revolution Notes. Workbook pg. 11. Essential Question. W hat conditions existed in Russia which lead to a Communist Revolution?.
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Warm Up # 26 • What conditions would need to exist for Communist Ideas to become popular and possibly spark revolution?
Russian Revolution Notes Workbook pg. 11
Essential Question • What conditions existed in Russia which lead to a Communist Revolution?
Conditions in Russia that led to Revolution • Working conditions and peasant life was brutal • Industrialized later than most of W. Europe • 11-12 hours/day, 6 day/week • Poor safety and sanitation • Low wages • A few elite owned most of the land
Bloody Sunday • Bloody Sunday • Jan. 1905 • Unarmed protesters at the Winter Palace killed by soldiers
Tsar Nicholas II • Also known as Nicholas Romanov • Absolute Monarch – believed in divine right • Spends time on the battlefield • Wife, Alexandra, in charge • Advised by Rasputin • Ignores cries for democracy
World War I Makes Things Worse • Needed more factory goods • Bankrupted government • Distracted the Tsar • Huge # of soldiers dead/injured
SUHUPU • What are some of the conditions that exist in Russia that are leading to revolution?
February Revolution 1917 • Protest occur in Petrograd • Factory workers go on mass strike • Rallies held calling for bread – mostly women • Police called in to stop demonstrations, but are weak and unable. They are taken captive by radicals • Tsar Nicholas abdicates (gives up throne) • Shipped home and placed under house arrest with family. • Provisional government put in place • Not that different from Tsar
The Bolsheviks • Political party led by Vladimir Lenin • Want to bring Communism to Russia • Red Party
October Revolution 1917 • Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government • End involvement in WWI • Immediately face and win Civil War • Red Army (Bolsheviks) v. White Army (anti-Bolsheviks) • 1917-1922
Crash Course World War 1 8:24-9:38 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPZQ0LAlR4&t=158s
Bolshevik Rule • The Red Terror 1918 • 50,000 – 100,000 deaths • Eliminate counter revolutionaries or members of upper class • Execute Tsar Nicholas and family • Create the Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) • Communist • Land redistributed (collectivized)
Joseph Stalin • Takes over after Lenin dies 1929 • Goals: Industrialization and Collectivism at any cost • Develops a Cult of Personality • Correctional work camps • Kill any challengers = Great Purge • Dictator
SUHUPU • How was the February Revolution different from the October Revolution?
Essential Question • Examine what conditions existed in Russia which lead to a Communist Revolution.