1. Russian Revolution Background

2. Emancipation of Serfs 1861 Nihilism Assassinated by Anarchists in 1881
Alexander II
Emancipation of Serfs 1861
Nihilism
Assassinated by Anarchists in 1881

3. Alexander III Reactionary Response
Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and National Character
Russification

4. Nicholas II 1894-1917 Weak Leader Rising protest and challenges
1905 Revolt
October Manefesto/Duma
Abdicated Throne in 1917

5. February Revolution March 8 – International Women’s Day
Petrograd protest over food shortages
Soldiers– key development
Tsar abdicates

6. Provisional Government
Evolved from Dumas
Multi-party assembly – Social Democrats (Menshiviks/Bolsheviks), Social Revolutionaries, Octoberist, Tsarist
Alexander Kerensky
At odds with Petrograd Soviet – dual authority

7. April Thesis Lenin returns to Russia
Establishes clear and separate vision for Bolshevik party

8. July Days
Increasing unrest – Economic collapse, political stalemate, opposition to the war
Peace, Land, and Bread
Lenin refuses to take charge

9. Kornilov Revolt Reactionary attempt to take over the government
Strengthened support for Bolsheviks

10. October Revolution Attack on the Winter Palace
Fairly easy take over of the government despite later propaganda imagery
Places Bolsheviks at the center of government
Power consolidated at January Constitutional Assembly.

11. Civil War Reds (Bolsheiviks) vs Whites (Everyone else)
Checka and centralized power
War Communism

12. . Russia Estonia Latvia Lithuania Germany Ukraine Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
Russia
Estonia .
Latvia
Lithuania
Germany
Ukraine
Brest-Litovsk
Russian territory ceded to Germany

13. The abandonment of the Constituent Assembly
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918
Factors that helped
Lenin impose
Communist control in
Russia
The Cheka
The Civil War
Success of the New Economic Policy
The execution of Tsar Nicholas II 1918
War Communism
The Kronstadt Revolt 1921