1. For Revolution Ingredients: Mix together. Poor leadership Caution:
Bolshevik Rev.
Proletariat & Peasants
For Revolution
Ingredients: Mix together.
Poor leadership Caution:
Heavy losses in war Contents under
Economic hardships pressure.
Growing gap between classes
Lenin & the Soviets

2. Nicholas II – The last of the Romanovs
Poor leadership
Autocratic government
Use of force

3. Economic Troubles
Food shortages
Unemployment
Winter 1917

4. Russian Involvement in World War I
Shortages
8 million dead

5. Soviets Led by communists Strikes and protests Land, bread, and peace
Appeal to workers

6. February Revolution (1917)
Workers take to the streets.
Army abandons Tsar
Nicholas II abdicates
Weak provisional government

7. Vladimir Lenin
Supporter of Marxism
Revolutionary history
Carpe Diem!

8. Marxism vs. Leninism

9. Lenin’s Demands Peace Land Power to the Soviets
By October 1917 majority party

10. Lenin’s April Theses

11. October Revolution (1917) Took over Winter Palace Pull out of WWI
Communist government
Civil War until 1922
New Economic Policy
Some economic freedoms
Government controls big industries

12. The Rebellion against Farmer Jones