Impact of “Revolution of 1905”
Impact of “Revolution of 1905:” The October Manifesto
Tsar Nicholas II to Front, 1915
Alexandra left at home to rule and care for Alexei, a hemophiliac
Grigory Rasputin
Assassination
February/ March Revolution / 11 Tsar Nicholas II ordered strikers back to work and the Duma dismissed 3/ 12 Army and police refuse to fire on workers; instead join in attacking officers 3/ 12 Provisional Government and Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies 3/ 15 Nicholas II abdicates in favor of brother, Michael, who turns down throne
Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet March – November 1917 Alexander Kerensky
Women’s Batallion
Vladimir Lenin Returns April 1917 “April Theses” and “Peace, Land, and Bread”
Petrograd: July Days
A for the Day (first to raise hand): Who is this individual?
It is Lenin!
Kornilov Affair - September, 1917
“Red Guard” of Petrograd Soviet
October/ November Revolution: Bolshevik Revolution
Tauride Palace: Jan 1918 Constituent Assembly
Lenin’s Initial Policies Allows voting for Constituent Assembly Armistice with Germany 1/5/1918 Allows Constituent Assembly 1/7/1918 Dissolves Constituent Assembly March 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Stripped church of power Establishes the CHEKA Suppresses hostile newspapers Private ownership abolished; all resources to state Edict on Child Welfare -gov’t to help, socialist upbringing
Russian Civil War,
Reds vs. Whites
Russian Civil War, Reds’ WAR COMMUNISM -All large factories to be controlled by the government. -Production planned and organized by the government. -Discipline for workers was strict, and strikers shot. -Requisition of agricultural surpluses from peasants -Food and most commodities were rationed -Private enterprise became illegal. -Military-like control of railroads was introduced. Reds victorious with brutal means: Murdered Tsar Nicholas II and family, use of CHEKA : 7-13 million dead war, disease, famine
Lenin Restores Order New Economic Policy: -Replaces War Communism -Mixed Economy: Aspects of Free Enterprise -Improves economy while empowering peasants Equal Rights for Women Universal Education/ Improves Literacy Took back some lands they had lost to Germany -Ukraine, Belorussia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan 1922 Changed name to USSR (Soviet Union)
Lenin’s Testament & Death
Lenin Mausoleum
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Re-Writing of History
Bibliography “October Manifesto” “Bloody Sunday” “BBC News” “Web Wiz” “Rasputin” “SAC ” “Rasputin” “Kerensky” “Monica Spivac” “War Communism” “War Communism” “Stalin’s and Lenin’s Bodies” “Joseph Stalin Biography” “Lenin and Trotsky”