1. Russian Revolution

2. Ha ha, you couldn’t overthrow me!!!
1905 Bloody Sunday – people
Protest Czar Nicolas II, soldiers
Open fire, massacre, creates
Duma, but no real change
Ha ha, you couldn’t overthrow me!!!

3. Bloody
Sunday

4. starvation strikes unemployment AWAL
June 1914, Russia enters WWI, they are not prepared, lack transportation, supplies and weapons – only gets
worse.
starvation
strikes
unemployment
AWAL

5. Where have we seen this situation before???
Causes of the Russian Revolution
1. High taxes
2. abusive monarch (czar)
3. unfair social class system
4. high unemployment
5. starvation
Where have we seen this
situation before???

6. The Russian Revolution Early 1917 February Revolution
Early 1917 February Revolution
Starts, Czar’s supporters are the Mensheviks try to dismiss Duma,
but fail. Bolsheviks form to remove
czar from power.

7. Removed from the Duma building
February Revolution

8. Heir to the throne had Hemophilia
Czar and
Family
Heir to the throne had Hemophilia
Rasputin

9. Death toll in Russia 1914-1917 is 15,000,000 people

10. They only find the remains of Czar, wife, son, and 3 of 4 daughters
They only find the remains of Czar, wife, son, and 3 of 4 daughters. The legend of Anastasia begins…

11. How will this treaty affect the Allied Powers?
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed
between Germany and Russia,
creates an armistice so Russia can dropout of WWI to fix gov’t
How will this treaty affect the Allied Powers?

12. The gov’t will provide for the people
1918 now Soviet Union (USSR) a Communist country under rule
Premier Lenin, Creates the New
Economic Plan (NEP)
Ended Feudalism
The gov’t will provide for the people

14. Lenin died of a brain hemorrhage in 1924 or did he???