1.  How did police respond to the February Rebellion?  Joined the protests

3. World War I went badly for Russia on the Eastern Front The Russian army was large, but technologically backwards Used horses and bayonets against machine guns and tanks The more modern German army inflicted heavy losses on the Russians

4. Anger Against The Tzar: Many were tired of the Romanov dynasty that had ruled them for over 300 years Tzar Nicholas took command of the army and failed miserably as a military leader

5.  Losing the War:  Food shortages left many starving  Many blamed the Czar for millions of dead Russians in World War I

6. February Rebellion 1917: nearly 200,000 workers swarm the streets shouting to take down the aristocracy Armed forces and police joined protesters By March 1917, the czar was overthrown

7. Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks (the radical left wing for the communist party) Promised “Bread, Peace and Land!”

8. Lenin adapted Marx’s ideas for Russia. First Communist leader of Russia

9. By the summer of 1917 Lenin’s Bolsheviks had seized control of the government. In July 1917, The czar and his family were executed.

10. Bolsheviks rename their party the COMMUNIST PARTY! Goal: classless society, gov. run by the people Result: Dictatorship by Lenin and his government (In other words, the working class would have control as a community)

11. Over 80,000 dead Red and White soldiers Massive starvation & disease The formation of the secret police

12. “Russia” changed to “Soviet Union” Capital moved to Moscow from St. Petersburg