1. Why was there a revolution in 1917?
Problems in Russia
Size- 1/6 world land mass 125 mill 20 languages
Opposition not allowed Okhrana
Autocrat Tsar
Poor- peasants 80% ind weak
January 1905 Rev Bloody Sunday
Fr Gapon conditions
Over 1000 killed
Strikes in towns
Soviets set up councils in towns
June July strikes peasants revolted
October Manifesto- Duma
Stolypin necktie
Why was there a revolution in 1917?
World War I
Kulak peasant farmers- food taken off them
Defeats Tannenberg dead/prisoner
Masurin lakes mill dead one battle
Equipment no guns shoes uniform
Tsar poor leader Tsarina German Rasputin
hated
Peasants starving families destroyed
Industry in ruins
February 1917 revolution
All previous reasons
Food fuel and temperature low- 35 degrees
Strikes common-
Feb women’s march
workers joined Army wouldn’t
Fire but joined them- mutiny
Duma split 12 took it over Provisional gvt
Tsar abdicates brother abdicates too
Key man- Kerensky
Revolution October 1917
Petrograd Soviet v Prov Gvt
Prov gvt allow political enemies back
Lenin returns- April thesis P,B,L F
July failed revolt army with Kerensky
Kornilov revolt – soviets armed
Lenin returns calls revolution
Peasants, Red Guard Trosky
Prov gvt arrested