1. The Last Czar and the Rise of the Soviet Union

2. Doomed From the Start? Coronation Party…
Russia in turmoil – few extremely wealthy, most extremely poor
World War I would expose weaknesses…
Autocrat ….
People hated his wife….

6. Duma

7. Another Love Story
Alexandra…
Children:
Olga
Tatiana
Marie
Anastasia

8. Alexsi

10. Family Life Czar was one of the richest men in the world…. Kids never…
Kids always…
Few outside …
Very close family.

11. Alexsi
Hemophilia…

12. Grigory Rasputin Very strange… His eyes… Never took… Somehow he
was able to calm
Alexsi

13. Russian nobles …
His death…
His letter…

14. Petrograd – March 8,1917 – “Peace and Bread”

15. Nicholas II is forced to Abdicate

16. Provisional Government
Aleksandr Kerensky
Soviets

18. October Revolution Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov V.I. LENIN Bolsheviks
A “gift” from Germany…
“Peace, Land, Bread”
“All Power to the Soviets”

19. Russian Civil War: Reds vs. Whites

20. Within a year of Rasputin’s Letter

21. Bodies of
Anastasia and
Alexsi were
missing...
Until 2008

22. Russian Civil War
War Communism-
Cheka

23. Leon Trotsky Commissar of War Organizational Genius Rigid Discipline
Political Differences among Whites
“Foreign Intrusion”

24. U.S.S.R

25. NEP
1924…

26. Politburo

27. Joseph Djugashvili (STALIN)
Man of Steel?

30. TOTALITARIANISM

31. Soviet Gulags

32. Five Year Plans

33. “We are Dizzy with Success”

34. Collectivization … Kulaks…

35. Purges

36. “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
Stalin