1. 23 May Final is a week from Tuesday Briefly discuss 32.5
Homework: Guided reading questions 33.1 and 33.2 ( ) by Wednesday (prepare for a quiz)

2. The Russian Revolution
Pages 729 to 733

3. Background Information…
Vladimir I. Lenin heard of a revolution to get Czar Nicholas II out of power..traveled through Germany to Russia

4. If you didn’t get enough, more on Lenin
Brother was executed in 1887 (attempt to overthrow the Czar Alexander III)
Practiced law
Sentenced to hard time (following in his brother’s footsteps)
Participates briefly in Russian politics goes to Western Europe

5. Strains of War: WWI
1914: Russia joins allies in WWI (Britain and France) Fighting against Germany and Austria-Hungary

6. Strains of WWI continued..
Industry- underdeveloped
Transportation System- WEAK
Enormous casualties in war
SO WHO WAS TO BLAME?

7. March Revolution 1917 People unhappy with war and food shortage
“Bread and Peace”
Peasants overthrew czar’s officials and seized some land.
Czar Nicholas II Abdicated, or gave up the throne. (within 1 week)
Set up provisional government to introduce reforms

8. Where else have we seen a provisional government take over?
Iraq

9. Continued
Socialists set up organizations in protest of provisional government. They formed…
Soviets- a council made up of workers, soldiers, and peasants.

10. Bolshevik Revolution A.K.A. Socialist Revolution
Socialism- A system in which the government owns and operates major businesses and controls other parts of the economy.
Bolshevik party organized soviets

11. Bolshevik Revolution continued
Leader-Lenin “Land, Peace, Bread” became his motto
Provisional government wanted Lenin arrested.
Lenin captured government buildings and arrested members of provisional government

12. Lenin decided 2 things
#1 Peasants could keep land they seized after March Revolution
#2 Seek immediate peace with Germany

13. End of WWI for Russia
March 1918 Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

14. Lenin
Marxist ideas- wanted a working class to rise up in a revolution.
Set out to create a Bolshevik dictatorship
Plot- destroy all political parties in Russia.

15. Civil War: 1919 to 1921 Problem- What kind of rule should we have?
Communists (Bolsheviks) were most organized against many split regimes
Leon Trotsky- set up and trained Communist army or the Red Army
Opposition=White Army, not very effective
So what happened?

16. Result…
Communists won control of Russian Empire-- Renamed Union of Soviet Socialists Republics or USSR.
USSR = Soviet Union

17. New Economic Policy NEP
Created by Lenin
Stopped taking grain from peasants- allowed them to sell it.
Government controlled heavy industry but allowed some private businesses to operate.
1924- Lenin dies; Joseph Stalin takes over…Ultimate Goal = Total Communism

18. To Sum Things Up…
All one in the same-