1. Russian Revolution
1917

2. Russian Morale?
Very low!
Food shortages
No weapons
No transport

3. Petrograd, March 1917
Czar Nicholas II orders his troops to put down protestors…they REFUSE
Power transferred to the PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

4. Vladimir Lenin
“hiding” in Germany during WWI because of his radical views
Brother killed for plotting to kill the Czar
Germany sent him to Russia in a special sealed train!
“Peace, Land, and Bread”

5. The Bolshevik Revolution
November 1917: Bolsheviks staged a coup d’etat in Petrograd
Overthrows provisional government!
Bolsheviks DISSOLVED the assembly! (sign of what’s to come)
Lenin wanted to end Russia’s involvement in WWI…

6. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Pulls Russia out of WWI EARLY!
Rest of the Allies NOT HAPPY with this move!
Russia now enters a CIVIL WAR
Reds (Communists) vs. Whites (non-Communists/Allied Powers)

7. Red Army Wins under Leon Trotsky
Whites were not unified—not able to work together quickly
Many peasants starved during 3 year civil war
Suspected Bolsheviks slaughtered by Whites, and vice versa!
The Terror: July 1918, killed Czar and his family, set up Cheka (secret police), restricted Church