1. Russian Revolution 1917
Chapter 23 Section 3

2. Russian Rev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmKPLvctdaA
While You're Watching
What was a major event that led to the Russian Revolution?
Who were the two armies fighting in the Russian Civil war?
What major political party was formed as a result?

3. The early signs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmKPLvctdaA
Russia’s 1st revolution in Czar promises Duma (legislature) for People’s voice to be heard in government
Russia unprepared militarily and technologically for total war of WWI
No competent military leaders
Russian industry unable to produce weapons necessary for the army
Told to train with broomsticks and get guns from dead soldiers
Russia suffered 2 million soldiers killed in action in first two years of the war
By 1917, Russia had lost the will to fight

4. March Revolution
Czar Nicholas II ruled Russia as an autocratic ruler and part of the Romanov Dynasty.
Nicholas II was at the front lines when a series of strikes started in the capitol of Petrograd(St. Petersburg)
Working class started strikes after bread rationing had started. (women factory workers)
Czar ordered soldiers to fire on strikers if they did not disband.
Soldiers would not fire on citizens and then joined the demonstrators.
Duma (legislature) sets up provisional government and asked the Czar to step down.
Czar Nicholas II steps down and ends the Romanov Dynasty that ruled Russia for over 300 years.

5. Czar Nicholas II
Czar Nicholas ruled as an autocratic ruler. What does that mean?

6. Provisional government
Russia made the mistake of staying in WWI
Authority challenged by Soviets
Soviets- councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers. Represented the more radical interests of the lower classes.
The Bolsheviks started as a small faction of a Marxist party called the Russian Social Democrats
Lenin led the Bolsheviks and were committed to violent revolution.
Lenin believed only a violent revolution could destroy the capitalist system

8. Bolsheviks seize power
Night of November 6, Bolshevik forces overthrow the provisional government by seizing the Winter Palace
Overthrow is at same time at meeting of All Russian Congress of Soviets.
Government collapsed with hardly any bloodshed. Called the October Revolution
Bolsheviks take over and rename themselves the Communists
Lenin had promised peace but that meant losing large amounts of land

9. On March 3, 1918 Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany to end Russia’s part in WWI
Russia loses eastern Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and Baltic Provinces.

10. Civil War in Russia Anti-communist supporters, Allied Powers
White Army
Red Army
Anti-communist supporters, Allied Powers
Allied powers sent material aid to White Army
No common goal to fight for, wanted different governments
Communists
Single-minded sense of purpose
Patriotic feeling to fight against foreign control of Russia
Red Terror- secret police that destroyed all that opposed them

11. White Army???
Red Army???

12. Murder Mystery!

13. The royal family was victim of the Civil War
After Czar stepped down, he, his wife and five kids were held prisoners and then murdered and bodies burned.
By 1921, the Communists were in total control of Russia. They had turned Russian into a centralized state dominated by a single party.
The Communists were hostile to Allied Powers because they tried to help the Communist enemies

14. Czar’s Family