A Tale of Two Revolutions From Czar Nicholas to Stalin: Russia in Transition

A great Cathedral of the Communist Faith-the Putilov Factory in Petrograd The March Revolution succeeds in removing Czar Nicholas, Karensky & the Intelligencia inform the workers that “your skills have won the revolution, now we ask that you allow us to manage that which you have won”

Son of civil servant/teacher, studied law, but became disillusioned. First exiled in 1895 – Siberia, London, Vienna, then Switzerland WWI is war of imperialism, and “Imperialism is the last stage of Capitalism” Feb. ’17 – Germany transports him to Sweden in a sealed rail car Led the October Revolution Chairman of the Peoples’ Commissars 1. Armistice with Germany – The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 2.Abolish all private ownership of land 3.Nationalize the banks. Vladmir I. Lenin – Father of the Revolution (b d.1924) –

Leon Trotsky – b.1879-d.1940 son of a Jewish farmer, pro-zionist exiled in 1896, spent in Vienna as a journalist/essayist becomes Commissar for Foreign Affairs under Lenin

Leon Trotsky – The Bolshevik Military Mastermind b.1879-d.1940 split with Lenin over Treaty of Brest-Litovsk believed in worldwide revolution alienated some inside party members -Stalin better at party infighting driven into exile assassinated in Mexico by Spanish Communist

“Proletarians of All Countries Unite!” reads this poster in both Russian and Arabic for neighbors in the Fertile Crescent Marx’ theories & Manifesto put into action immediately

THE RED PEASANT, SOLDIER AND WORKINGMAN (on the left) TO THE COSSACK (center) : COSSACK, WITH WHOM ARE YOU? WITH US OR WITH THEM?---(THE LANDLORDS, GENERALS AND CAPITALISTS) All non-owners are recruited for the Red Revolution…

Including women…

…and children. Children acknowledge the removed head of Czar Alexander III

"THE ILLITERATE IS A BLIND MAN: EVERYWHERE PITFALLS AND MISFORTUNES AWAIT HIM.“ ---SOVIET POSTER TO ENCOURAGE EDUCATION. The Bolsheviks Return Sight to the People “The Czar removed our eyes…”

"IN ORDER TO HAVE MORE, IT IS NECESSARY TO PRODUCE MORE. IN ORDER TO PRODUCE MORE, IT IS NECESSARY TO KNOW MORE."

November 7, 1918 The Winter Palace is taken and the 20,000 member Petrograd Soviet is in control.

Bolsheviks with one of the armored cars used to suppress the White Uprising. The Civil War becomes one of Trotsky’s Red Army vs. Kalensky’s White Guard of Provisionals, called “Counter-Revolutionaries” by the Bolsheviks. CIVIL WAR

"THE RED ARMY HAS CRUSHED THE WHITE GUARD PARASITES--- YUDENICH, DENIKIN, KOLCHAK.- --COMRADES I FIGHT NOW AGAINST INFECTION! ANNIHILATE THE TYPHUS- BEARING LOUSE!“ ---SOVIET HEALTH POSTER Russia Faces a new enemy – -the Plague of Typhoid

the Era of Stalin Joseph Stalin Editor of Pravda (Truth) in 1913 Commissar for Nationalities under Lenin More to come… »Stay tuned…