1. The Russian Revolution
Causes and Results

2. Political Causes Autocracy Absolutism…extravagance
1905:Loss in Russo-Japanese War
Bloody Sunday (part of Rev of 1905)
ineffective Duma
Tremendous losses in WWI: WHY?
Spread of Marxist ideas

3. Economic Causes Inefficient industry
Effects of total war from WWI such as food and fuel shortages
Striking workers

4. Social Causes Rations during WWI Lead to riots in the streets
many casualties and deaths from WWI
Too few rich and too many poor (haves vs. have nots)

5. Revolution of Russia ~ 1917 March of 1917 November of 1917
the Czar abdicates the throne: why?
Lenin comes out of exile in April
March of 1917
November of 1917
AKA Bolshevik Rev
(reds,communists)
Set up Russian Republic; provisional government led by Kerensky and the Duma ~ democracy
Lenin promises people “peace, land and bread”
Bolsheviks seized Petrograd
Continued fighting with Germany in WWI
Marxist ideology is attempted in Russia…how? Impact?
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed on March 3, 1918…everything fine?
Duma still failed to represent all the people~ made up of upper classes; no representatives from lower classes
Why did the revolution continue?
Civil War between the Reds and Whites (12/1918 – 1921)