Russian Revolution

Autocracy
1. Czar Nicholas II
2. Repression from the government
  1. to workers and socialist parties
  2. Leads to Revolution
    1. After Bloody Sunday
      1. Duma is created
        to grant Civil Rights
      2. Czar regains power
Unprepared for Total War
1. WWI
2. Militarily
  1. No competency
3. Technologically
  1. unable to produce weapons
Alexandra took charge
1. Nicholas II at battle
2. Through Rasputin
  1. political + social disasters
  2. People grew upset
    1. assassinated Rasputin
March Revolution
1. government skyrockets bread's
  1. price
  2. Petrograd
    1. working women went on strike
    2. all factories shut down
    3. Nicholas II disobeyed by army
    4. Duma reestablished
      1. Middle-class representatives
      2. provisional government
      3. Nicholas II dies
      4. Kerensky
        decides to remain within WWI
        faces angered people and Bolsheviks
        Soviets guided by Lenin
The Bolsheviks + Lenin
1. small faction of Marxist party
2. Russian Social Democrats
  1. Lenin
    1. violent Revolution
      1. to end capitalism
      2. Land redistribution
      3. committees of workers
      4. provisional Soviet'sgovernment
    2. Bolsheviks should earn
      1. Soviet soldiers
      2. Workers
      3. Peasants
      4. Propaganda
        "Peace, Land, Bread"
        "Worker Control of Production"
        "All Power to the Soviets"
  2. Leon Trotsky
    1. Head of the soviet Petrograd
    2. Congress of Soviets
      1. Lenin returns over the power
        As a provisional government
        To the Congress of Soviets
        Real power passes
        council of the People's Commissar
        headed by Lenin
        Bolsheviks renamed Communists
Civil War
1. Red Army
  1. Communist
2. White Army
  1. Opposition to the Communists
    1. Loyal to the Czar
    2. Liberals
    3. Anti-Lenin socialists
    4. Joined by Allies
      1. sent troops to Russia
  2. Anti-communist
3. Attacks from Ukraine and Balkans
  1. White army defeated
    1. Ukraine retaken
    2. Communist regime regained control
      1. over independent states
      2. Royal Family as victim of civil war
        killed by members of the local Soviet
Triumph of the Communists
1. Trotsky
  1. Commissar of War
  2. Rigid Discipline
    1. killing
      1. deserters
      2. disobedients
    2. Red army's SINGLE purpose
      1. new socialist order
2. Power Instruments
  1. War communism
    1. government control of
      1. banks
      2. industries
      3. food
      4. to ensure supplies for army
  2. Revolutionary Terror
    1. Red secret police
      1. Cheka
  3. Russian patriotism
    1. at the presence of foreign troops
      1. Maniupulation
        to fight against foreign attempts
3. White army's Downfall
  1. disunity
    1. due
      1. political distrust
        prevented them from cooperating
      2. Czarist regime vs. Demcratic program
Communists in total command
1. Centralized state
2. dominated by single party
3. hostile to the Allied Powers

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