1. Causes of Russian Revolution
WW1 losses
Battle of Tannenberg
Battle of Mansurian Lakes
Tsar Dumas WW1
Politics Bolsheviks Mensheviks Social Revolutionaries
Peasants= Food Money Horses Life

2. Bolsheviks take over
February 1917 Petrograd Soviet Strikes Soviet Order #1
March 1917
Abdicated
April 1917
Thesis
Dual Power starts
October 1917
Lenin+Trotsky
Bloodless takeover
Weakness of Provisional Government
June offensive
July Days riots
Kornilov Revolt

3. Consequences of October Revolution 1917
November decrees December decrees
Russia surrenders
Lost farmland and natural resources
Lenin closes Constituent Assembly

4. Lenin closed Constituent Assembly
Causes of the Civil War
Brest-Litovsk War Communism November Decrees December Decrees
Lenin closed Constituent Assembly
Czech
Rivals

5. Sides of the Civil War Denikin Vs Wrangel Yudenich Kolchak Semenov
Miller Vs
Why?

6. War Communism + Peasant support + Propaganda Vs. White failures
Why did the Reds win?
War Communism + Peasant support + Propaganda Vs. White failures

7. New Economic Policy Kronstadt Mutiny War Communism=
Famine + Cannibalism
War Communism=Out NEP=In NEP= Capitalism?

8. The Communist State CPSU + USSR Centralisation Trade Women Youths Art
Schools
Art
Culture
Propaganda

9. Lenin’s Legacy Rivals for Power The Legacy Was Lenin a good leader?
Reflecting on Lenin’s death, Churchill wrote: ‘Their worst misfortune was his birth, their next worst – his death’.
Lenin’s Testament