1. The Russian revolution aka – the communist revolution aka – the Bolshevik revolution

2. background 1881 – Alexander III Took away reforms of father
Complete absolutism
Pogroms
Police state

3. Nicholas II 1894 Pledged to continue czarist rule But problems exist
Still lagging behind in industry
Russo – Japanese War 1905

4. The revolution of 1905
Bloody Sunday
Duma

5. WWI – the final blow Russia joins WWI – 1914
1915 Nicholas goes to the front
Rasputin is left to influence Czarina Alexandria
March Revolution

6. The provisional government
Alexander Kerensky
No change
War raged on
Economic problems
Land shortage

7. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Bolshevik
“peace, land and bread”
November 1917

8. New economic policy Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Land
Redistribution of Land
Bread
Changes in the economy

9. And politics 1922 USSR Moscow Communism NOT Karl Marx
Dictatorship of Communist party not a dictatorship of the Proletariat

11. And then there was Stalin
“man of steel”
1928 –power in SU
totalitarianism

12. What is totalitarianism?
state control over people
modern technology
glorifies state
one party rule
organized violence
dynamic leader
state control over society

13. Stalin seizes control over everything
The five – year plans
Industrialization
Command economy
High quotas
No consumer products

14. Stalin seizes control over everything The five – year plans
Agricultural revolution
Collective farms
kulaks

15. Weapons of totalitarianism
religious persecution
indoctrination
police terror
propaganda
censorship

16. Police terror Force obedience Crush opposition Monitor everything
Great purge

17. Indoctrination/propaganda
Instruction in government’s set of beliefs
Socialist realism

19. Censorship
Religious persecution

20. Daily life Soviet women Women worked in industry
Educational opportunities
Responsible for raising “good communists”

21. Education
Government controlled all education
University/technological training