1. Warm up – Friday 3/24 Words of the day: Totalitarian, provisional
Define each of these words
Totalitarian – centralized government, power is in one persons hands
provisional – something that is going to be changed
Provide a synonym or example of these words
Totalitarian – one party, communist/dictator,
provisional – temporary, interim, limited

2. Russian Revolution

3. Russian Government Before Revolution
Imperial Dynasty - Tsar (or Czar)
The Romanov’s
Until 1905 the Tsar's powers were unlimited.
Russia had no constitution,
no political party system to check the Tsar's power
A strong secret police terrorized the people.

4. Czar Nicholas II (1894-1917) Last Czar of Russia
Nicholas II was a harsh yet weak ruler
The Russian economy was bankrupt because of the Russo-Japanese War and WWI
Large working class feels unrepresented
Karl Marx – “Communist Manifesto”
Nicolas’ wife Alexandra influenced his decisions – Gregory Rasputin made royal advisor

5. Czar Nicholas II and Family

6. Rasputin

7. Rasputin with Admirers

8. Bloody Sunday (1905) A revolution breaks out in 1905
Large group of industrial workers march on the palace to list off demands
Imperial army open fires on the workers

9. March Revolution (1917)
1917- protests spread through St. Petersburg and the Royal palace is taken over.
Czar is removed from power
Provisional government (Duma)
unpopular after decision to stay in WWI

10. October (Bolshevik) Revolution-1917
Lead by VIadimir Lenin
“Peace, Land, and Bread”
Won support of people (especially peasants)
Intend to sign separate peace with Germany to get out of WWI
Bolshevik and Royal Menshevik army fight civil war
Bolsheviks win

11. Rule of Lenin 1920-1924 Economic Reforms
-moderate mix of capitalism and socialism
Political Reforms
-Forms Communist party
-Gov’t will control businesses and payment
-Russia becomes U.S.S.R. (United Soviet Socialist Republics)

13. 1924 Lenin Dies Leon Trotsky vs. Joseph Stalin Stalin takes control
Decides to create a totalitarian state

15. Stalin’s Totalitarian State
State Control of the Economy
5 year plan, collective farms
Police Terror
Great Purge, crush opposition
Religious Persecution
Control of the individual
Propaganda (socialist realism)
Molding peoples minds
Education
Controlled by the government