1. Warm Up # 34
What conditions would need to exist for Communist Ideas to become popular and possibly spark revolution?

2. Russian Revolution Notes
Workbook pg. 26

3. Essential Question pg. 18
Examine what conditions existed in Russia which lead to a Communist Revolution.

4. Conditions in Russia that led to Revolution
Working conditions and peasant life was brutal
Industrialized later than most of W. Europe
11-12 hours/day, 6 day/week
Poor safety and sanitation
Low wages
A few elite owned most of the land

5. Bloody Sunday Bloody Sunday Jan. 1905
Unarmed protesters at the Winter Palace killed by soldiers

6. Tsar Nicholas II Also known as Nicholas Romanov
Absolute Monarch – believed in divine right
Spends time on the battlefield
Wife, Alexandra, in charge
Advised by Rasputin
Ignores cries for democracy

7. World War I Makes Things Worse
Needed more factory goods
Bankrupted government
Distracted the Tsar
Huge # of soldiers dead/injured

9. SUHUPU
What are some of the conditions that exist in Russia that are leading to revolution?

10. Stalin: man of Steel

11. February Revolution 1917 Protest occur in Petrograd
Factory workers go on mass strike
Rallies held calling for bread – mostly women
Police called in to stop demonstrations, but are weak and unable. They are taken captive by radicals
Tsar Nicholas abdicates (gives up thrown)
Shipped home and placed under house arrest with family.
Provisional government put in place
Not that different from Tsar

12. The Bolsheviks Political party ed by Vladimir Lenin
Want to bring Communism to Russia
Red Party

13. October Revolution 1917 Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government
End involvement in WWI
Immediately face and win Civil War
Red Army (Bolsheviks) v. White Army (anti-Bolsheviks)

14. Crash Course 8:24-9:38

15. Bolshevik Rule The Red Terror Execute Tsar Nicholas and family
50,000 – 1,000,000 deaths
Eliminate counter revolutionaries or members of upper class
Execute Tsar Nicholas and family
Create the Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Communist
Land redistributed (collectivized)

16. Joseph Stalin Takes over after Lenin dies
Goals: Industrialization and Collectivism at any cost
Develops a Cult of Personality
Correctional work camps
Kill any challengers = Great Purge
Dictator

17. Essential Question
Examine what conditions existed in Russia which lead to a Communist Revolution.

18. Epic History