1. The Russian Revolution
Objective: Describe the Russian path to Revolution
Do Now: What do you think of when you see the word Communism?
Czars Resist Change
Autocracy (King has total power): Czars continue autocratic rule
Strict Censorship – books, the press, education, etc.
Secret Police, Political prisoners and surveillance of civilians
Oppression of minority groups
Minorities speaking other languages (Polish, Jewish, etc.)
Pogroms against the Jews (murder, stolen wealth, etc.)
Nicholas II becomes Czar in 1894: Continues autocratic rule
Why did the Czars resist political change?

2. The Russian Revolution
Russia Industrializes: By 1900, Russia becomes an industrial power
Rapid Industrialization creates discontent:
Poor working conditions
Low wages
Child labor
Unions outlawed
Karl Marx: Founds Communism and calls for the workers to rise and overthrow the Government
The Proletariat: The Workers
The Bolsheviks: wanted rapid and violent Revolution
Lenin: leader of the Bolsheviks
What similarities do you find between the revolutionary movement in Russia and those in Latin America?
What similarities do you find in the discontent industrialization causes in Russia and other industrial nations?

3. The Russian Revolution
The Path to Revolution: Three main causes
The Russo-Japanese War: Russia defeated by Japan
Lose Korea and Manchuria
Unrest among Russian people
Bloody Sunday: the revolution of 1905
Workers protest at the Czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
Army fires into the crowd
Sets off wave of strikes and violence
The Duma is created – first Russian parliament – but Nicholas dissolves it
World War I: The Final Blow
Russia unprepared for War
German armies defeat and rout Russian forces
4 Million Russian soldiers die
Russian soldiers desert and ignore orders
Food shortages at home
Why did entering WW I prove devastating to Nicholas II?

4. The Russian Revolution
The March Revolution: 1917, 200,000 workers strike in Petrograd over shortages of bread and fuel
Soldiers fight the workers, but then side with them
Czar abdicates his throne
Duma establishes a provisional government
Germany helps Lenin return
How might the results of the March Revolution have been different if the soldiers had not sided with the workers?
Why did the Germans help Lenin return to Russia?

5. The Russian Revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution: “Peace, Land and Bread” – Lenin’s call to action
Bolshevik’s “Red Guard” take over the Provisional Government
Bolsheviks in Power
Royal Family executed
All Factories and farmland turned over to workers
Russia signs a peace treaty with Germany (loses territory)
What might have resulted from turning farmland and factories over to the Russian people?
What actions by the Bolsheviks might have angered the Russian people?

6. The Russian Revolution
Civil War: Bolsheviks’ Red Army faces the White Army
White army is divided
Leon Trotsky, an experienced General, commands the Red Army
Red Army wins
Russia suffers through famine during the war
14 million Russians die during the Civil War
NEP: New Economic Policy – Lenin allows small scale capitalism
Peasants allowed to sell surplus crops
Small businesses operate under private ownership
Why was Lenin’s NEP surprising?

7. The Russian Revolution
Bolsheviks rename party to the Communist Party
Joseph Stalin takes over and becomes dictator
How did Lenin’s Communist Party stray from Marx’s original concept of Communism?
In Textbook, do Vocabulary on page 867
Do Section Assessment: Page Questions 2,3,4,5, 6,7