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Bell Ringer: Draw 4 Inferences from the painting below titled Lenin Arrives In Petrograd :. Russian Revolution. An Abbreviated History. Essential Questions and Agenda. EQ: What were the causes and outcomes of the Russian Revolution? 1. Situation in Russia Pre - 1914 2. WWI and Russia
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Bell Ringer: Draw 4 Inferences from the painting below titled Lenin Arrives In Petrograd:
Russian Revolution An Abbreviated History
Essential Questions and Agenda • EQ: What were the causes and outcomes of the Russian Revolution? • 1. Situation in Russia Pre - 1914 • 2. WWI and Russia • 3. Provisional Government 1917 • 4. Bolshevik Revolution 1917
Russian Czar Government • Czar • 1462-1894 • Stability to Instability • 1894-1917 Nicolas II • 1905 Revolution • Russo Japanese War • Father Gapon • Semiconstitutional monarchy • 1906 Stolypin’s Reforms • Middle Class Buyin
Emergence of Revolutionary Political Parties • Peasants • Intelligentsia • Landowners • Bourgeoisie • Kulaks • Nobles • Urban Proletariat
Marxism Karl Marx, Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Engels Dialectal Materialism “Thesis vs Antithesis” Worker vs Owner Synthesis Class Struggle eventually leads to the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” Eliminate Private Property “Withering away of the State” Communism Version of Marxism when implemented in the USSR, China Various forms: War Communism Lenin New Economic Policy Stalin’s 5 Year Plans Politburo, Central Committee Marxism and Communism
Bolsheviks (Lenin) Majority but really Minority Hards unwilling to cooperate with others Revolution should be controlled by small elite of reliable and zealous workers Any means necessary Mensheviks Minority but really Majority Softs- pro cooperation Bridge different intellectual ideologies Simlar ro Marxistsin Europe Emergence of Revolutionary Intelligentsia
1905-1911 Stolypin’s Reform • Serfs/peasants Stop Redemption Payments • Peasants Leave MIRS for Private Property • Duma • Kulaks: Big Farmers • Provincial Zemstovos • 1911 Assassinated
World War I in Russia 1914-1917 What were the causes and outcomes of the Russian Revolution? 1. Situation in Russia Pre - 1914 2. WWI and Russia 3. Provisional Government 1917 4. Bolshevik Revolution 1917
Quick Facts • 1.4 Million Soldiers to 5 Million in 1917 • 4.6 Million Rifles • Not Enough Ammunition • 2 million Soldier Casualties • Peasant and Worker Soldier little Nationalism • Csar’s Government was afraid of middle class help
Provisional Government 1917 What were the causes and outcomes of the Russian Revolution? 1. Situation in Russia Pre - 1914 2. WWI and Russia 3. Provisional Government 1917 4. Lenin’s Government 1917
Growing Discontent 1916-17 • World War I • Duma Disbanded • Food Riots • Army Volatile • Marxist Theories • Tsar and Tsarina and Rasputin
Petrograd Soviet vs Provisional Government • Duma Committee • Moderate • Middle class government leaders • Provisional Government under Prince Lvov • 1 Socialist Kerensky • Tsar Abdicated 1917 March 17 • Petrograd Soviet Workers Council • Menshiviks, Bolsheviks, Social Revolutionaries • Push Revolution Left
Bolshevik Revolution November 1917 What were the causes and outcomes of the Russian Revolution? 1. Situation in Russia Pre - 1914 2. WWI and Russia 3. Provisional Government 1917 4. Bolshevik Revolution 1917
Lenin Arrives with Bolsheviks in April • 1. immediate peace with Central Powers • 2. redistribute land to the peasants • 3.Transfer factories, mines, and industrial plants from capitalists to committees of workers in each plant • 4. Recognize the Soviets as the supreme power instead of the Provisional Govt.
Provisional Government’s Challenges • Provisional Gov’t • No end to War • Inability to Act • Compromise sometimes satisfies no one • General Kornilov Crisis
Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 • Lenin’s Tactics • Bolshevik Majority in Petrograd Soviet • Trotsky, Stalin, and Central Committee • Mov 6-7 seized telephone exchanges, railway stations, electric power plants, and warships • Congress of Soviets pronounces Provisional Gov’t Defunct • Kerensky Flees for USA • Lenin in charge, Trotsky, and Stalin
Actions and Outcomes • Civil War 1918-1922 • Bolsheviks vs Liberals, Bourgeois, zemstvos, constitutional democrats, anti Leninists, Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries • Cheka Secret Police, Red Army, Red Terror • United Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union 1924 • War Communism • Nationalized industries and put them under worker control • Food by Force • New Economic Policy • Relaxation in Tempo and Terror • Force Capitalism to get to Communism; Kulak and Private trade for Private gain