1. Was the 1917 Russian Revolution…
Inevitable?
Due to Romanov Rule? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

2. Was the Russian Revolution Inevitable? Due to Romanov Reign?

3. What's Wrong Alexi? The Last Romanov Romanov Reign What is the message
behind this
cartoon?
The Last Romanov

4. Inevitable
Russian Revolution

5. FRENCH REVOLUTION

6. And so it begins… Decembrist Revolution 1825
Beginning of the Russian Rev???
Alexander I had died unexpectedly
Nicholas I became Tsar
UNPOPULAR
Boyars (Noblemen) & officers staged coup.
UNSUCCESSFUL!
Afterwards 289 Decembrists were tried; five were executed, 31 imprisoned, and the rest banished to Siberia. Their martyrdom inspired later generations of Russian dissidents.

7. Marxism Vocab Proletariat: Bourgeoisie:
workers or working-class people, regarded collectively
Bourgeoisie: 
the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production

8. Communist Manifesto

9. Marx, Lenin and Bolsheviks, Oh my!
1898: the Marxist group, Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), formed
First Russian Marxist groups
Delegates arrested by Tsar! (Later freed)
1903: Disagreement between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, so the RSDLP broke and formed two separate groups
Bolsheviks: Lenin
Mensheviks: Martov
Lenin addressing the Bolsheviks

10. Bloody Sunday Russian Revolution of 1905 Jan 22nd, 1905
Led by the Father Gapon as a last minute plea to the Tsar for help (Tsar doesn't know we are suffering!)
Workers marched on Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to ask Tsar to help…
Representative government
End to war with Japan
Tsar Nicholas’ troops fired on peaceful protesters, killing hundreds. (Myth shattered)
Jan-Oct 1905
Unrest and Strikes!!!!
Sergei Witte laid foundation for DUMA
10/17/ /30/1905: October Manifesto
Tsar Nicholas created DUMA… Allowed freedom of speech and ELECTED assembly
Was it successful? (1906, Nicholas dissolves the DUMA for a more conservative one…)

11. WWI
15,000,000 Russians in…
8,000,000 Russians out…

12. Russian Revolution 1917 1) February Revolution/1917
Revolutionaries overthrew the Tsar
Ultimatum from Duma… step down and give us power!
Army abandoned Nicholas
Nicholas- tried to hand power to son, no!
Unorganized! Supported by Mensheviks, NOT Lenin’s Bolsheviks
Set up Provisional Government (Not ready for Socialism?)
2nd Leader, Alexander Kerensky of the Social Revolution Party
: First Congress of the Soviets (137 of 1090 were Bolsheviks)
2) October Revolution/ 1917
Bloodless Bolshevik Coup led by Lenin
Set up Cabinet: Council of People’s Commissar
Lenin: Chairman
Trotsky: Commissariat of Foreign Affairs/ Military leader
Stalin: Commissariat of Nationalism/ General Secretary
Russia becomes a Democratic Republic

13. Russian Civil War 1918 - 1920 Red Army VS White Army Reds win!!!!
Reds: Bolsheviks (Communists) led by Trotsky and Lenin
Whites: Anti Bolsheviks led by ???
Lack of cooperation
Reds win!!!!
(Beginning of USSR)
Lenin has stroke, paralyzed, and scales back government responsibilities
Stalin essentially takes over
1924: Lenin dies
Two Year power struggle: Stalin and Trotsky duke it out for leader of newly formed USSR
Stalin wins/ becomes general secretary of USSR ( )
USSR ( )

14. Red Square St. Basil’s Красная площадь Lenin… On display
Kremlin- Tsar’s Palace