BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and attended a ball given by the French embassy. –Already the people began to loathe the seemingly callous couple

In the Beginning The Tsar was cursed from birth –Did not want to be tsar –Tortured psychologically by his father His priorities were his family not his country. Would rather go on a cruise with his family than deal with the problems brewing in his country.

THE IMPERIAL FAMILY

LONG TERM REASONS People were angry with the government. –Russia was an autocracy. –Peasants wanted more land –Bread lines were long, –Working conditions (factory workers) were poor.

RASPUTIN Holy man from Siberia Tsar trusted Rasputin Healing Powers?? No political experience

BLOODY SUNDAY January 22, 1905 Proletarians protested at the Winter Palace –Working conditions were bad The guards began to fire into the crowd. Many were killed Bloody Nicholas.

BLOODY SUNDAY

STRIKES AND REVOLTS Bloody Sunday caused many revolts and strikes. Tsar did not care about the people Gap between upper and lower class widened. Ideas of revolution began to stir.

BAD DECISIONS Russo-Japanese war –Wanted a port that would not freeze. 15,000,000 soldiers. Battle of Tsushima straights Yula River. Portsmouth treaty People wanted Freedom of speech as well as political freedom.

DUMA Imperial Manifesto The Duma-elected government body –Seemed Nicholas was making an effort. Tsar would not keep his bargain.

THE GREAT WAR Russia a united front Transportation was inadequate food shortage around the country 3 bullets a day. Moral started to nosedive with the Russian people Protest and strikes started up again Nicholas commanded his army to put an end to all disorderly conduct in the streets of the capital

LENIN In the background was a man named Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov or Lenin. Exiled to Siberia in 1895 for joining a communist ring He returned in 1900 and begin to fuel the fire of revolution. Leader of the Bolshevik party which believed in a five year socialist state in a conversion to communism. War cry was Peace, Land, and Bread.

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin

DEATH OF THE MAD MONK Nobles assassinate Rasputin Poisoned Shot twice Thrown into the Neva River Too little too late

MARCH REVOLUTION Lenin created a new Bolshevik –the red army The Menshevik Party –the white army. The red army beat the white army Ended in the abdication of Nicholas and his son.

END OF THE ROMANOVS Family exiled to Siberia. Bolsheviks moved the family to Yekaterinberg. Family was assinated on July 16-17, 1918

END OF AN ERA 1918 peace treaty signed to end WWI. The white army was defeated by the Reds in Communist state of Russia would last 74 years.