1. Revolution and Nationalism

2. The Russian Revolution Nicholas II Russian Czar- -strict control of country -late 1800’s Russia industrializes -people forced to work in factories - people had limited rights under the Czar.

3. -Shows that Russian lack modernization and industrialization
Problems in Russia
1. Russia loses
the Russo- Japanese
War
-Shows that Russian lack modernization and industrialization

4. White Board
What war does Russia enter after this war?

5. 2. Poverty amongst working class
Rapid growth of (discontented) working class
Vast majority of workers concentrated in St. Petersburg and Moscow
Little help from the countryside: impoverished peasants –
Bloody Sunday 1905
workers petitioned and demanded rights and food from czar
Czar’s general orders troops to fire on crowd ( dead)

6. 3. WWI – Russian people suffer huge losses
3. WWI – Russian people suffer huge losses. - shortage of food, no supplies for soldiers, high prices.

7. No trust of the Royal Family
Nicholas II and Alexandra committed to autocracy (Discuss What this Means)
Duma(Parliament) had no power
She was under the influence of Rasputin: Spiritual Advisor
Scandals surrounding Rasputin served to discredit the monarchy

8. The Collapse of the Imperial Government
Nicholas left for the Front—September, 1915
Alexandra and other high government officials accused of treason
Rasputin assassinated in December of 1916
DISCUSS THE MEANING OF THE CARTOON

9. Anger at the leadership and the War
Complete mismanagement of the wartime economy
production plummeted, inflation and starvation were rampant, and the cities were overflowing w/ refugees
There were massive food shortages
(White Board: List one reason there were food shortages and lower production)

10. The Russian Revolution Begins: The March(Febuary) Revolution 1917
Riots in Petrograd- women march “Bread! Bread! “ (end WWI) & Factory workers go on Strike
Duma declared itself a Provisional Government on March12
Czar ordered soldiers to intervene; instead they joined the rebellion

11. Results of the March Revolution
Czar Returned to Petrograd and had no more power
Czar abdicated on March 17 Placed under House Arrest
Alexander Kerensky headed the Provisional Government Very Popular Revolution
Kerensky favored gradual socialist reform
However he continued the War with Germany

12. White Board
What major mistake did the Provisional government make?

13. The Petrograd Soviet Challenge Provisional Government
leftists in St. Petersburg formed the Petrograd Soviet,
which they claimed to be the legit. gov’t
Wanted to End the War
Many of these would work along side Bolsheviks

14. Kornilov Affair
General Kornilov attempted to overthrow Provisional Government
Kerensky freed many Bolshevik from prison and supplied arms to many revolutionaries

15. Discuss
Why is using common enemies often a mistake?

16. Rise OF the Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks and Vladimir Lenin- Germans send him back to Russia
supported a revolution of the working class (proletariot)
ideas Karl Marx- “Communist Manifesto”
overthrow of the wealthy class share wealth equally. Classless society.

17. Vladimir Lenin “Peace, Land, Bread” “All Power to the Soviets”
He preached that the war was a capitalist/imperialist/ war that offered no rewards for the peasants/workers;
Bolshevik party membership exploded; their power was consolidated

18. October Revolution/Bolshevik Revolution 1917
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky push the Provisional government out of Power
Lenin’s 1st task was to get Russia out of the war
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk negotiated with the Germans, giving them much Russian territory

19. Lenin Takes Full Power
1918 Council of People’s Commissars was created government (All Bolsheviks)
All private property was abolished and divided among the peasantry
Nationalized large Industries
Secret Police is set up to control(Cheka)

20. The Royal Family is killed July 17 1918
Fighting will start again between the Red Army and the White Army Russian Civil War