T h e R u s s i a n R e v o l u t i o n

Introduction The Russian Revolution occurred in the year 1917. Actually there were two Russian revolutions that year. In March the Russian people overthrew their Tsar, ending a thousand years of autocratic rule of Russia. Six months later the Provisional government, that had replaced Russian monarchy, was itself overthrown, and replaced by a Communist dictatorship. This revolution would lead to the rise of Communism and begin a new type of war that would last for over 70 years: The Cold War.

Nicholas II

Provisional Government

Communist Dictatorship

Lenin

Stalin

Trotsky

Tsar Nicholas II

* Born: 1868

* Tsar: 1894 - 1917

More interested in the war, then what was happening to his Russian people.

Alexandra

* Born: 1872

* Born in Germany

Why do you think the Russian people didn’t like her?

Anastasia

* Survived Massacre

* London Bank Account

* Anna Anderson

(Gregory Efivich Rasputin)

*Able to cure Alexsei’s

bleeding?

* Alcoholic, womanizer,

power hungry.

* Because of his relation with

Alexandra, he became

the most powerful man

in Russia!

Rasputin

Rasputin

* Murdered by the Grand Duke Pavelovich.

* Poisoned, shot, beaten with chain,...death by drowning!

* Discontent of all classes - peasants, workers, army, intelligentsia, bourgeoisie and aristocracy. Reasons for each?

* 1905 Revolution

* World War One

Defeats

Losses of over 10 million

Food shortages

Nicholas at the Front

* Hatred of Alexandra

Rasputin

Causes of the Russian Revolution

“Bloody Sunday” 1905

* Alexander Kerensky

* Duma

* Biggest Mistake was…

Provisional Government

* Exiled to Switzerland 1905

•Germans help in returning Lenin to Petrograd- “Sealed Train” Reason?

Return of Vladimir Lenin

Bolshevik Revolution (November 6)

* Provisional Government overthrown•Kerensky flees to the United States

•Signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia was out of the war.

Russian Civil War (1918 - 1922)

* Identify the Whites

* Identify Reds

* Red Army led by Trotsky.

* Foreign Intervention

Great Britain

France

United States

* Reasons why Reds won...

“Kill the Capitalists….or the capitalists will kill you”

* Establishment of the first Communist State

Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

* What is Marxism/Leninism ?

Death and succession of Lenin

* Lenin dies of Stroke - 1924* Power Struggle - Trotsky and Stalin* Exile and assassination of Trotsky* Stalin: Paranoia / Purges /

World War Two/ Cold WarDeath - 1953

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