1. The Bolshevik Revolution History 104 / April 1, 2013

2. V. I. Lenin ( )

3. Rasputin (c. 1870-1917) - an illiterate peasant at the center of power

4. “Dual Power” I: the Provisional Government
Alexander Kerensky
( )
“Dual Power” I: the Provisional Government

5. Summer 1917: Kerensky rallies the army to a new offensive

6. Demonstration in St. Petersburg against the war

7. “Dual Power” II: Soviets (Councils) of workers, soldiers, and peasants

8. Lenin after his return from Switzerland to St. Petersburg (1917)

9. The Putilov Works: a stronghold of Bolshevik support

10. The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg

11. Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace, October 24-25, 1917 (November 7 by Western calendars)

12. Leon Trotsky ( )

13. Civil War: “Red” soldiers strung up by “White” officers

14. Civil War: recruiting Red Army volunteers (lower right – “are you with us or with them?”)

15. Civil War: teaching economics to future party members

16. Allied forces intervene in the Civil War (shown here in Vladivostok)

17. A sarcastic Bolshevik view of the League of Nations “Capitalists of all countries, unite!”

18. Cultural experimentation: cutting-edge artists support (a) education and (b) the “construction of socialism”

19. Joseph Stalin ( )

20. Stalin claims to be Lenin’s chosen successor

21. The First Five-Year Plan: industrialization from scratch (here: Magnitogorsk, a brand-new steel town in Siberia)

22. Magnitogorsk: an idealized picture of workers’ fervent belief in “building socialism”

23. Collectivization: the promise of technology and efficiency

24. The cost of collectivization