1. Warm-UP: Monday, November 1st
What were the MAIN causes of World War I?
Why did the United States enter World War I?
What was it like on the home front in the Untied States?
What event really pushed Austria over the edge and began the war?
List one outcome of World War I.

2. Warm-UP: Wednesday, March 30th
What were the MAIN causes of World War I?
Why did the United States enter World War I?
What was it like on the home front in the Untied States?
What event really pushed Austria over the edge and began the war?
List one outcome of World War I.

3. Russian Revolution
Unit 7

4. Czarist Russia
Entered WWI as an absolute monarchy with sharp class divisions between the nobility and peasants.
The Czar did not resolve the grievances of workers and an unsuccessful provisional government.
A second revolution by Bolsheviks created the communist state which ultimately became the USSR

5. Russia Leaves the Great War
Russia’s defeat in war with Japan in 1905
JAPAN
RUSSIA

6. Russia Leaves the Great War
Causes of 1917 Revolutions
Defeat in war with Japan in 1905
Russia was weakened by this defeat
In a way the country never recovered

7. Russia Leaves the Great War
Landless Peasantry

8. Russia Leaves the Great War
Causes of 1917 Revolutions
Landless peasantry
People of Russia did not own land!
They were MAD!!
A feudal society existed in Russia
What is this?

9. Russia Leaves the Great WarK
Incompetence of
Tsar Nicholas II
Tsar Nicholas II
Wife, Alexandra

10. Russia Leaves the Great War
Causes of 1917 Revolutions
Incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II
Romanovs were the ruling family in Russia for over 300 years
Nicholas II—Tsar of Russia—weak ruler
WWI had drained Russia’s resources (no medicine or weapons)
Nicholas II went to the front lines to lead military (inept leader)
Wife Alexandra (granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England) left in charge—was never well liked by the Russian people
Wife Alexandra depended on a Russian holy man named Rasputin (the mad monk)
He eased the suffering of Alexis (her son) who had hemophilia
Rasputin led her to make bad decisions

11. Russia Leaves the Great War
Military defeats and
high casualties in
World War I

12. Russia Leaves the Great War
Causes of 1917 Revolutions
Military defeats and high casualties in World War I
March 1917
Russians were discontent with the lack of progress on the battlefront, the shortage of food, and lack of fuel and needed supplies.
Russians were striking and the military refused to impose order.
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated (resigned from power)

13. March Revolution OR Russia Leaves the Great War The DUMA
The Provisional Government = WEAK
The New Russian Constitution
This FAILED!!!
The DUMA
Russia Legislature OR

14. Russia Leaves the Great War
Causes of 1917 Revolutions
The March Revolution
The Duma (Russian Legislature) set up a provisional government and began drafting a constitution while continuing to fight against Germany
Troops were deserting, peasants wanted land, city workers wanted food which was scarce.

15. Russia Leaves the Great War
This book is my bible and will help me gain control of Russia….Hahahaha!!!
Hello my Name is…
Vladimir Lenin
The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx
Hello my Name is…
Vladimir Lenin

16. Russia Leaves the Great War
Hello my Name is…
Vladimir Lenin
Lenin and the Bolsheviks

17. Russia Leaves the Great War
Causes of 1917 Revolutions:
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
Vladamir Ilyich Ulyanov (V. I. Lenin) had been exiled from Russia
What is exiled?
Studied and followed works of Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto)
Wanted an elite group to control the government (proletariat)
He named them the Bolsheviks and led them in a revolution when he returned from exile (aided by the Germans)

18. Lenin and the Bolsheviks
Hello my Name is…
Vladimir Lenin
Promised....
BREAD
PEACE
LAND

19. Lenin and the Bolsheviks
New Government
COMMUNISM
Moscow

20. The Bolsheviks overthrow the provisional government !!
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
The DUMA
Russian Legislature
The Provisional Government = WEAK
The New Russian Constitution
This FAILED!!!
The Bolsheviks overthrow the provisional government !!

21. Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov Family
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov Family
The Bolsheviks

22. Russia Leaves the Great War
Causes of 1917 Revolutions
The November Revolution
Lenin and the Bolsheviks promised the people “Peace, Land, and Bread”
They attacked the provisional government and overthrew it.
The Bolsheviks set up a new government in Moscow and took the name “Communists” led by Lenin
They imprisoned and then executed the majority of the Romanov family including the czar and his wife and children.

23. WWI No More War!!!! Russia Leaves the Great War Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk
1918
Germany and Russia are Friends!!!
(Watch out for those dictators)
No More War!!!!
WWI

24. War Ended and the White Army was DEFEATED…..The Communists won.
Russia Leaves the Great War
COMMUNIST (RED) ARMY
WHITE ARMY
(ANTI-COMMUNIST)
1921:
War Ended and the White Army was DEFEATED…..The Communists won.
VS.

25. Russia Leaves the Great War
Causes of 1917 Revolutions
The November Revolution
Lenin withdrew Russia from WWI and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in1918.
For 3 years, civil war continued (the anti-communist white army had help from the Allies) and in 1921 the communists defeated the white army
Russia became the Soviet Union

26. Russia Leaves the Great War
Rise of Communism
Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War
Vladamir Lenin’s New Economic Policy
Lenin instated Communism for the Russian government and society
According to him this would give all PEACE, LAND, and BREAD
Joseph Stalin
Lenin’s successor
Stalin came to be known in the Soviet Union during Lenin’s reign (the more that was known the more he was liked due to all of his wonderful promises)
Stalin became the premier of the Soviet Union when Lenin died