1. Russian Revolution

2. Causes Crushing defeats in WWI Lack of bread and fuel
People were tired of autocratic rule
Czar’s association with Rasputin
Russian Revolution Documentary

5. Treaty of Brest Litovsk

6. Immediate Consequences
Czar and family executed
300 years of Romanov rule ended
Provisional government formed (Kerensky)
Russian Civil War ( Reds win!)
Russia becomes the _________________
Soviet Union

7. V.I. Lenin (“ Father of the Russian Revolution”)
Marxist
Arrested by Russian secret police, brother executed for assassinating Czar
“ Peace, Land, Bread”

8. Long Term Consequences
Tension between USSR and the West
Soviet Union lasts from

9. Cold War

10. Feudalism-Capitalism-Communism
Marx’s vision
Feudalism-Capitalism-Communism