1. Section 4: The Russian Revolution
CHAPTER 13
World War I and the Russian Revolution
Section 1: Setting the Stage for War
Section 2: World War I: A New Kind of War
Section 3: US Involvement in WWI
Section 4: The Russian Revolution
Section 5: The Terms of Peace

2. Bell Ringer Day 4 – 13.4: Russian Revolution
Write down everything know about Russia during the war leading up to 1917.

3. Weaknesses of Russia during WWI
Russian Revolution
Weaknesses of Russia during WWI
Insufficient food
Least industrialized country of all the great powers.
Large army; poorly trained and equipped
By millions Russian soldiers killed, wounded or captured.
Corrupt, inefficient government
No faith in government or czar (means emperor)

4. Start of the Revolution
A. In March 1917, working-class women led a series of strikes in the capital city of Petrograd.
They were upset about bread shortages and rationing. They called for a general strike that shut down all the factories.
Soldiers ordered by Czar Nicholas II to end the demonstration, instead joined them.

5. B. The Duma, or Russian legislature, met
B. The Duma, or Russian legislature, met and established a provisional government.
No longer having the support of the Russian people or military, the czar abdicated the throne.
Czar Nicholas II and his family were soon imprisoned, ending the Russian monarchy.

6. Russian Revolution

7. C. The provisional government decided to continue fighting in the war.
This was a huge mistake, as it upset workers and peasants who wanted to end the years of fighting.
Soviet political parties sprang up around the country and were mostly made up of socialists.
They wanted political and economic equality. Radicals called for peace and land reforms.

8. Russian Revolution Two factions fought for control of the soviets.
Mensheviks
Bolsheviks

9. Russian Revolution
The Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin took over the Soviets.
Their slogans were:
1. “Peace, Bread, and Land”
2. “Worker Control of Production”
3. “All Power to the Soviets”
His version of Marxism formed the basis of communism.

10. III. The Bolsheviks Seize Power
A. On November 7, 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and took control of Russia.
The Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party.
In March 1918, Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany officially ending Russia’s involvement in WWI.

11. B. Soon after the Communists took power, civil war broke out in Russia.
The Communist (Red) Army – Lenin supporters.
  VS.
The White Army – Anti-Lenin socialists and those that wanted to restore the monarchy.
The civil war lasted from 1918 to 1921. 

12. C. Czar Nicholas II and his family were
C. Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed in July 1918 by the Communist.
Thus ending the
Royal bloodlines
of Russia.
Anastasia

13. D. By 1921, the Communist Red Army had defeated the White forces.
The Communists renamed the land they ruled the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union.