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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION chapter 11.5

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION chapter 11.5. CHARACTERISTICS OF 19 TH CENTURY CZARS. Autocracy Harsh measures against opponents Secret police Pogroms Oppression of non-Russians Resistance to change. EVENTS OF 1905. Bloody Sunday 200,000 workers march on czar’s winter palace

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION chapter 11.5

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  1. RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONchapter 11.5

  2. CHARACTERISTICS OF 19TH CENTURY CZARS • Autocracy • Harsh measures against opponents • Secret police • Pogroms • Oppression of non-Russians • Resistance to change

  3. EVENTS OF 1905 Bloody Sunday • 200,000 workers march on czar’s winter palace • Troops fire on crowd, 1,000 + killed Creation of Duma • First parliament of Russia • Czar forced to share power; dissolved it after 10 weeks

  4. NICHOLAS II’s MISTAKES • Brought Russia into WWI • Moved Headquarters to front in WWI • Czarina Alexandra given power; she became influenced by Rasputin • Rasputin was freaky, crazy, and corrupt • People poor and starving; lots of unrest

  5. THE MARCH REVOLUTION • MARCH 1917 (February in Russian Calendar) • 200,000 workers march on St. Petersburg (Petrograd) over bread and fuel shortages • Czar’s soldiers joined the crowds “DOWN WITH AUTOCRACY!”

  6. NICHOLAS II ABDICATES CZAR'S FAMILY EXECUTED IN... 1918

  7. PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT Temporary Government Led by: Alexander Kerensky But the Provisional Government did not have as much power as the…

  8. SOVIETS • Formed by social revolutionaries • Local councils in cities • Consisted of workers, peasants, and soldiers

  9. MISTAKES OF PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT Biggest mistake: kept Russia in World War One Also, did not help workers or peasants with food and fuel shortages Lost all support!

  10. NOVEMBER REVOLUTION Led by: Vladimir Lenin, leader of Bolshevik Party (Communists!) His slogan: “Peace, Land, and Bread” • Bolshevik Red Guards took over gov’t offices; arrested Prov. Gov’t leaders • Bolsheviks in power November 1917

  11. LENIN'S FIRST MOVES... • All farmland distributed to peasants • Factories controlled by workers • End Russia’s involvement in WWI • Gained many opponents, leading to Russian Civil War

  12. RED ARMY Bolsheviks (Communists!) Led by…Leon Trotsky WHITE ARMY Opponents of Bolsheviks in Russia; western nations like the USA RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR1918-1920 15 million dead! WINNERS! LOSERS!

  13. RESULTS OF THE CIVIL WAR • Red Army crushes all opposition to Bolshevik rule • Russian economy destroyed: no trade or industrial production

  14. BOLSHEVIKS BECOME KNOWN AS… THE COMMUNIST PARTY (still led by Lenin)

  15. THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY1921 To help Russia recover from the war Lenin allowed for a little bit of capitalism • Peasants could sell surplus (extra) crops for profit • Individuals could buy and sell goods for profit • Some small factories, farms, and businesses allowed

  16. NEW COUNTRY • Lenin organized Russia into self-governing republics • Central Government controlled them! • 1922: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) • Capital: Moscow • Lenin had created a “Dictatorship of the Communist Party” • This becomes known as Leninism

  17. Soviet Union Moving Forward • 1924 – Lenin dies • Power struggle between Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin • Stalin wins, Trotsky murdered • Stalin turns to ruthless measures to win dictatorial power

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