1. BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

2. BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION 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 Tsar was cursed from birth
Did not want to be tsar
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. BLOODY SUNDAY
January 22, 1905
Proletarians (factory workers) protested at the Tsar’sWinter Palace
Working conditions were bad
The guards began to fire into the crowd.
Many were killed
Tsar was nicknamed
“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”.

7. BLOODY SUNDAY

8. STRIKES AND REVOLTS Bloody Sunday caused many revolts and strikes.
Tsar 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.

9. BAD DECISIONS Russian-Japanese war 1904-1905
15,000,000 soldiers who were cold, had no shoes, or sufficient supplies
Navy destroyed at Battle of Tsushima straights
Infantry destroyed at Yula River.
Portsmouth treaty ended war in 1905
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.

10. DUMA Imperial Manifesto made promises to the people for civil rights
The Duma-elected government body
Seemed Nicholas was making an effort.
Tsar would not keep his bargain.
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.

11. THE GREAT WAR Russia a united front Transportation was inadequate
food shortage around the country
Soldiers were only allowed 3 bullets a day
Morale 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
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

12. 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 begin to fuel the fire of revolution.
Leader of the Bolshevik party which believed in a five year socialist state in a conversion to communism.
War cry was “Peace, Land, and Bread.”
party which believed in a five year socialist state in a conversion to communism.
April Thesis

13. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov “Lenin”

14. MARCH REVOLUTION Lenin created a new Bolshevik The Menshevik Party
the red army
The Menshevik Party
the white army.
The red army beat the white army
Ended in the abdication (giving up power) of Nicholas and his son.
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.

15. END OF THE ROMANOVS
As a result of March Revolution, the family exiled to Siberia.
Bolsheviks took control
The family was assassinated on July 16-17, 1918
In 1918 a peace treaty was signed to end WWI.
And so began the communist state of Russia which would last 74 years.
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.

17. END OF AN ERA 1918 peace treaty signed to end WWI.
The white army was defeated by the Reds in 1920.
Communist state of Russia would last 74 years.

18. Summary & Reflection
Why would authors during the time Russia was ruled by a Tsar, Nicholas II, need to be very careful with their literature?
How could they produce and publish social commentaries without getting caught?