1. Warm Up # 33
What conditions would need to exist for Communist Ideas to become popular and possibly spark revolution?

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

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

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

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

6. World War I makes things worse
Needed more factory goods
Bankrupted government
Distracted the Tsar
Huge # of soldiers dead/injured

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

9. 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

10. The Bolsheviks Led by Vladimir Lenin Want to bring Communism to Russia
Red Party

11. 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)

12. Crash Course 8:24-9:38

13. 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)

14. 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

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

16. Epic History