1. EQ: What happened with the Russian Revolution during WW1?

2. Russian Revolution

3. World War I Allied Power Military led by Nicholas II
Romantic ideas about war
Government during the war
Ruled by Alexandra, wife of Nicholas II
Influence of Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin -mystical healer/advisor
People distrust
Alexis-heir to throne

4. Tsar Nicholas II Romanov
1916 lost popular favor of the people
Food and Fuel shortages
Strikes/Protest “Down with the czar!”
Troops ordered to crush rebellions

5. Chaos March 15th, 1916 Nicholas II Abdicated Provisional Government
Choose new form of government
Constituent assembly – permanent

6. Provisional Government 2 parties
Duma middle class
Petrograd Soviets
Immediate peace
Land to peasants
Worker controlled factories

7. Power vacuum 1917 Bolsheviks Leader
Coup de’tat against provisional government
1917 Bolsheviks Leader
Vladimire Lenin
Wanted Russian revolution to spread world wide
Political struggle and Economic downfall

8. Bolsheviks Absolute power Ended private ownership of property
Distributed land among peasants
Workers control factories
Self proclaimed Communists

9. Military Chaos Eastern Front New Government -Troop rebellion
Germans march on Russia
Russian Exist 1918 March 3rd
Treaty of Brest-Liovsk
surrendering the Ukraine, Finland, the Baltic provinces, the Caucasus and Poland.

10. Civil War Communists v. Political opponents Reds
1918 Imprisoned and murdered Czar Family
Communists v. Political opponents
Red v. Whites
Reds
Secret Police
Arrest anyone considered “enemy of the revolution”
Anti Religion

11. History Mystery