1. T h e R u s s i a n R e v o l u t i o n

2. Introduction
The Russian Revolution occurred in the year Actually there were two Russian revolutions that year. In March the Russian people overthrew their Tsar, ending a thousand years of autocratic rule of Russia. Six months later the Provisional government, that had replaced Russian monarchy, was itself overthrown, and replaced by a Communist dictatorship. This revolution would lead to the rise of Communism and begin a new type of war that would last for over 70 years: The Cold War.
Stalin
Communist Dictatorship Lenin
Provisional Government
Nicholas II
Trotsky

3. Tsar Nicholas II * Born: 1868 * Tsar: 1894 - 1917
More interested in the war, then what was happening to his Russian people.

4. Alexandra * Born: 1872 * Born in Germany
Why do you think the Russian people didn’t like her?

5. Anastasia
* Survived Massacre
* London Bank Account
* Anna Anderson

6. Rasputin (Gregory Efivich Rasputin) *Able to cure Alexsei’s bleeding?
* Alcoholic, womanizer,
power hungry.
* Because of his relation with
Alexandra, he became
the most powerful man
in Russia!

7. Rasputin * Murdered by the Grand Duke Pavelovich.
* Poisoned, shot, beaten with chain,...death by drowning!

8. Causes of the Russian Revolution
* Discontent of all classes - peasants, workers, army, intelligentsia, bourgeoisie and aristocracy. Reasons for each?
* 1905 Revolution
* World War One
Defeats
Losses of over million
Food shortages
Nicholas at the Front
* Hatred of Alexandra
Rasputin
“Bloody Sunday” 1905

9. Provisional Government
* Alexander Kerensky
* Duma
* Biggest Mistake was…

10. Return of Vladimir Lenin
* Exiled to Switzerland 1905
Germans help in returning Lenin to Petrograd- “Sealed Train” Reason?

11. Bolshevik Revolution (November 6)
* Provisional Government overthrown
Kerensky flees to the United States
Signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia was out of the war.

12. Russian Civil War (1918 - 1922) * Identify the Whites * Identify Reds
* Red Army led by Trotsky.
* Foreign Intervention
Great Britain
France
United States
* Reasons why Reds won...

13. * Establishment of the first Communist State
“Kill the Capitalists….or the capitalists will kill you”
* Establishment of the first Communist State
Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
* What is Marxism/Leninism ?

14. Death and succession of Lenin
* Lenin dies of Stroke
* Power Struggle - Trotsky and Stalin
* Exile and assassination of Trotsky
* Stalin: Paranoia / Purges /
World War Two/ Cold War
Death

15. END