1. Table of Contents 1.Bloody Sunday Massacre OverviewBloody Sunday Massacre Overview 2.Bloody Sunday MassacreBloody Sunday Massacre 3.February Revolution OverviewFebruary Revolution Overview 4.February RevolutionFebruary Revolution 5.October Revolution OverviewOctober Revolution Overview 6.October RevolutionOctober Revolution 7.Lenin’s Economic Policy OverviewLenin’s Economic Policy Overview 8.Stalin’s Rise to Power OverviewStalin’s Rise to Power Overview 9.Stalin’s Rise to PowerStalin’s Rise to Power 10.ReferenceReference Major Events in Russian History Created By Mark Pederson

2.  1905 Workers marched to Czar’s Palace  Seeking  better working conditions  More freedom  Elected national assembly  They got killed for marching  Hundreds were killed Bloody Sunday Massacre Overview Home

3.  Results  Workers refused to work  Riots broke out  Peasants killed nobles  Duma established and dissolved within 10 weeks Duma  Spirit of dissatisfaction in the heart of Russian Bloody Sunday Massacre Home

4.  Food in short supply -> high food prices (6x)  Approx. 200,000 Industrial workers went on strike  Marched through the streets, breaking shop windows and shouting anti-war slogans  Lead by Bolsheviks  Soldiers sent to broke up the march  Most if not all soldiers joined the march February Revolution Overview Home

5.  Russian Army tried to get Czar to abdicate and leave power to Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich -> did not workabdicate Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich  Czar lost control to Duma  Duma appointed Prince George Lvov head of Provisional Government February Revolution Home

6.  Alexander Kerensky took power of the Provisional Government Alexander Kerensky  Popular man  Leader of Moderate Socialists  Champion of working-class  Unwilling to get out of the war October Revolution Overview Home

7.  Military Revolutionary Committee opposed Kerensky’s war position  Oct. 22 nd Kerensky tried to arrest the MRC and cut off the Bolsehvik party  Bolsehviks took over railway stations, telephone exchange and the banks  They sieged the Winter Palace and took over Power October Revolution Home

8.  After 2 years of Civil War Red and White armies  Used  Capitalist and Free market to get econ started  Regulate supply and production  Led by peasant farmers and factory workers  laying stable economic foundation before transfer to Communism  Strengthen Russian economy Lenin’s Economic Policy Overview Home

9.  Stalin’s political rise  People’s Commissar for Nationalities  Leader of new regime  Administrative role on military fronts and capital  General Secretary of Central Committee of the party  Lenin wanted Stalin to be removed but died before any action could be taken Stalin’s Rise to Power Overview Home

10.  Fought for power with Kamenev and Grigori after Lenin’s death  Stalin forced both to resign and took complete power of the Communist party. Stalin Stalin’s Rise to Power Home

11.  Duma Reference, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/173419/Dumahttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/173419/Duma  Bloody Sunday Picture, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1905http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1905  Definition of Abdicate, http://www.merriam- webster.com/dictionary/abdicatehttp://www.merriam- webster.com/dictionary/abdicate  Further Information and Picture of Mikhail Alex., http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/mikhail.html http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/mikhail.html  Information and Picture of Alexander Kerensky, http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/alexander_kerensky.htm http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/alexander_kerensky.htm  Information and Picture of Stalin, http://www.biography.com/people/joseph- stalin-9491723#synopsishttp://www.biography.com/people/joseph- stalin-9491723#synopsis  All other information is adapted from our World History department at El Dorado High School References Home