1. The Russian Revolution

2. The Revolution of 1905 The Russo-Japanese War Bloody Sunday
The Potemkin Mutiny
Issues
Land Reform
Nationalism
Industrialization
Intelligensia

3. The Revolution of 1917 World War I – Russian Support of Serbia
The February Revolution
Bolsheviks v. Mesheviks
Lenin Returns to Finland Station
“Land, Bread, Peace and all power to the Soviets”
Kerensky government
July Revolt
Kornilov Rebellion

4. Red October
November 7, 1917, The Cruiser Aurora opens fires signaling the start of the assault on the Winter Palace in Petrograd.

5. Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)
Revolutionary Party as the Vanguard of the Proletariat
Theory of Permanent Revolution
Promoted Proletarian Internationalism/founder COMINTERN
Founded the Red Guard
Exiled to Turkey then Assasinated in Mexico by Stalin’s agents

6. Trotsky’s Theory of Revolution
Revolutionary Situation
Existing social structure has become incapable of solving the urgent problem of development
Conspiracy v. Insurrection
Louis Blanqui – Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Trotsky - Revolution happens when society contains a new class to take the lead - Soviets to be Vanguard of the Proletariat
Ruling class loses faith in themselves
Revolutionary class has bitter hostility to the old regime

7. Trotsky’s Theory of Revolution
Success
Timing
Well organized, smart revolutionary party
Petty Bourgeosie joins the proletariat

8. 100 years later