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Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution. Growing Tension. Czarist Russia like a bomb with a long fuse Exploded 1917, but fuse burning for ~100 yrs. Autocratic Czars. Russia unstable to begin with 1881-1917: Czars respond to revolutionary pressure with secret police and persecution of minorities.

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Russian Revolution

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  1. Russian Revolution

  2. Growing Tension • Czarist Russia like a bomb with a long fuse • Exploded 1917, but fuse burning for ~100 yrs

  3. Autocratic Czars • Russia unstable to begin with • 1881-1917: Czars respond to revolutionary pressure with secret police and persecution of minorities

  4. Industrialization • Late 1800s: Russia industrializes • Terrible working conditions, low wages • Some favored revolution

  5. Marxist Bolsheviks • Bolsheviks- a radical Marxist (Animal Farm?) communist group • Believed in revolution of workers and peasants (AF?)led by revolutionaries • Leader: Lenin (AF?)

  6. Bloody Sunday • 1905: Soldiers fire on workers petitions for legislature and working conditions • Nicholas agreed to legislature later that year, but soon dissolved it • Unrest!!

  7. WWI • Russian army weak and unprepared, Nicholas joins troops • Wife governs with crazed holy man/hemophilia healer Rasputin • 4 million Russians die in war • Revolts and strikes across country

  8. Revolution, 1917 • March: Nicholas steps down, weak provisional representative gov • Soviets (local councils of workers) gain control • November: Lenin and his Bolsheviks arrest provisional gov, redistribute farmland and take over factories (cuz they’re commies)

  9. Civil War • Disunited White Army (czarists, democrats, moderate socialists) fight unified Red Army (Bolsheviks) • 14 million die from fighting and famine • Reds win

  10. Reforms • Bolsheviks now “Communist Party,” one-party dictatorship • Russia now “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” --communism aims for global revolution, so often avoids nationalism

  11. Stalin assumes power • Stalin (“man of steel,” AF?) increases power from 1922 until full control in 1928 • Lenin dies 1924 • Stalin drives out competition (Trotsky, AF?)

  12. Don’t worry, he gets less attractive

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