1. BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

2. BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION Czar Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov
Doomed from the day of their wedding
1300 people died on that day
The couple went ahead and attended a ball given by the French embassy.
Already the people began to loathe the seemingly callous couple

3. In the Beginning The Czar was cursed from birth
Did not want to be Czar
Tortured psychologically by his father
His priorities were his family not his country.
Would rather go on a cruise with his family than deal with the problems brewing in his country.

4. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY

5. LONG TERM REASONS People were angry with the government.
Russia was an autocracy.
Peasants wanted more land
Bread lines were long
Working conditions (factory workers) were poor.
People were angry with the government.
Russia was an autocracy.
People wanted Constitutional monarchy.
Bread lines were long
working conditions for the proletarians (factory workers) were poor.
Peasants wanted more land.

6. RASPUTIN “Holy man” from Siberia Tsar trusted Rasputin
Healing Powers??
No political experience
Another reason the population mistrusted its monarchy was their ties with Rasputin.
The tsarich Alexei had hemophilia and Rasputin seemed the only one who could help him.
Romanov’s considered him a holy man
The people called him the “mad monk”
Gaining the confidence of the tsar and tsarina, he inadvertently ran the government since Alexandra listened to him and Nicholas listened to Alexandra.
Neither Rasputin or Alexandra had any political experience.

7. DEATH OF THE MAD MONK Nobles assassinate Rasputin Poisoned Shot twice
Thrown into the Neva River
Too little too late
In a final act of desperation to save the ruling monarchy nobles assassinate Rasputin.
They invited him to a party and served him wine with enough poison to kill 2 men.
He did not die, so they shot him twice.
He made a run for it
They caught him and threw him into the Neva River were later he was found dead.
Unfortunately it was too little too late.

8. BLOODY SUNDAY
January 22, 1905
Proletarians protested at the Winter Palace
Working conditions were bad
The guards began to fire into the crowd.
Many were killed
“Bloody Nicholas”.
January 22, 1905 workers went to the Winter Palace to plead to the Tsar.
They crowd informed Nicholas that they would be there.
He left the palace. Did not want to face the crowd.
The guards at the palace got nervous and began to fire into the crowd.
Many were killed
This combined with the wedding day fiasco gave the Tsar the nickname “Bloody Nicholas”.

9. BLOODY SUNDAY

10. STRIKES AND REVOLTS Bloody Sunday caused many revolts and strikes.
Czar did not care about the people
Gap between upper and lower class widened.
Ideas of revolution began to stir.
The bloody Sunday incident caused many revolts and strikes.
Was a clear statement to the people about how much their Tsar cared.
The gap between upper and lower class widened.
Ideas of revolution began to stir.

11. BAD DECISIONS Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905 15,000,000 soldiers.
Wanted a port that would not freeze.
15,000,000 soldiers.
Battle of Tsushima straights
Yula River.
Portsmouth treaty
People wanted Freedom of speech as well as political freedom.
Nicholas sent young men to war with Japan and Germany in 1904.
Wanted a port in Manchuria that would not freeze.
Had 15,000,000 soldiers who were cold, had no shoes, or sufficient supplies.
The navy was destroyed at the battle of Tsushima straights
The infantry was defeated at the Yula River.
Portsmouth treaty ended the war in 1905.
This war coupled with all the other catastrophes made the people call for freedom of speech as well as political freedom.

12. DUMA Imperial Manifesto The Duma: elected government body
Seemed Nicholas was making an effort.
Czar would not keep his bargain.
Czar tries to dissolve Duma
Thought he was put here to rule by God and should not have to take orders from the people.
Tsar released an Imperial Manifesto that promised these things.
The Duma was an elected government body
Worked, but only in the beginning.
Enough for the time being to tide people over.
Seemed Nicholas was making an effort.
Tsar would not keep his bargain.

13. THE GREAT WAR Russia entered war aa united front
But …. Transportation was inadequate, lack of proper training of soldiers, industry could not keep up with war needs.
food shortage around the country
Moral started to deteriorate with the Russian people
Protest and strikes started up again
Nicholas commanded his soldiers to shoot the disorderly crowd
Russia entered the war a united front
Transportation was inadequate and supplies did not reach the front.
Plenty of food was being shipped to the troops, however it caused a food shortage around the country
Soldiers were ill equipped, no boots, no rifles, only shoot 3 bullets a day.
Moral started to nosedive with the Russian people.
Protest and strikes started up again
Nicholas commanded his army to put an end to all disorderly conduct in the streets of the capital

14. LENIN
In the background was a man named Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov or Lenin.
Exiled to Siberia in 1895 for joining a communist ring
He returned in 1900 and began to fuel the fire of revolution.
Leader of the Bolshevik party: Change to Socialist/Communist Government.
promised end to war
redistribution of land
transfer of factory ownership
transfer of government power. conversion to communism.
party which believed in a five year socialist state in a conversion to communism.
April Thesis

15. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov “Lenin”

16. MARCH REVOLUTION Lenin created a new Bolshevik
the red army
Soviet: workers, peasants & soldiers
The Menshevik Party (supports monarchy
the white army.
The red army beat the white army
Ended in the rule of Romanovs after 300 years
Lenin created a new Bolshevik party, purging the old party of members who did not believe in a bloody revolution.
The Bolsheviks were called the red army
The Menshevik Party supported a constitutional monarchy
They were the white army.
The red army beat the white army
Ended in the abdication of Nicholas and his son.

17. END OF THE ROMANOVS Family exiled to Siberia.
Family was assassinated on July 16-17, 1918
Kerensky, leader of the provisional government exiled the family to Siberia.
After the October revolution, the Bolsheviks took control and moved the family to Yekaterinberg.
With the white army advancing the family was assinated on July 16-17, 1918
In 1918 a peace treaty was signed to end WWI.
The white army was finally defeated by the Bolsheviks in 1920.
And so began the communist state of Russia which would last 74 years.

18. END OF AN ERA 1917 Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty with Germany for Russia to exit WWI
The white army was defeated by the Reds in 1920.
Communist state of Russia would last 74 years.