1. The Russian Revolution

2. Revolution Strikes lead to revolution in St. Petersburg 1917.
Soldiers join workers in protest.
Tsar abdicates.

3. Unity while overthrowing old regime
Provisional Government set up.
Karensky leads provisional government
Lenin returns to Russia and seized opportunity to take control. He took over the soviet of Petrograd.
Bolshevik Red Guards seized the Winter Palace. Symbol of workers taking control of government.

4. (1918 – 1921) Civil War breaks out, Reds vs. White. 15 million died
Disunity and conflict over founding new regime
(1918 – 1921) Civil War breaks out,
Reds vs. White.
15 million died
By 1920, Red Army had seized power

5. One set of revolutionaries eliminates/persecutes others
Lenin instituted a series of political and economic reforms to recover from civil war.
Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party
Wrote a constitution based on democratic and socialist ideas, but the Communist party held all of the control.

6. Small, organized minority suppresses ALL opposition to defend or advance revolutionary cause
Stalin and a small group of trusted officials uses terror to suppress ALL opposition.
Economically he established 5 year plans setting
Impossible quotes
Established collective farms which led to famine.
Created a society that forced children to stand each
Morning and thank comrade Stalin

7. Millions are killed or sent to Siberia
Revolutionaries suppressed or eliminated SCAPEGOATING
Stalin’s purges
Millions are killed or sent to Siberia
Show trails take place, intellectuals, officers, killed.

8. “Police state” with no freedoms established.
Rise to oppression
“Police state” with no freedoms established.
Famine and terror continue USSR
Museum of atheism established
Children were forced to confess whether or not parents
Spoke against the state

9. Reaction to revolution REVERSES gains rise of DICTATOR
Stalin and the communist Party rule with iron fist.
USSR