1. The Russian Revolution 1917

2. Causes of the Russian Revolution
                                                                                            

4. Czar Nicholas II
Czar Nicholas II was unable or unwilling to deal with Russia’s problems.
The Russian people wanted to end absolute rule.

5. Gregory Rasputin
While the Czar was at the front many Russians feared his influence on Alexandra.

6. Economic Aspects The peasants wanted the noble’s fertile lands.
Factories proved unable to satisfy military and civilian needs.
Severe food shortages.

7. Social Aspects
There was widespread discontent in all classes of Russian society.

8. Military Causes Humiliating defeat by Japan in 1905.
WWI - The Russian armies suffered series military defeats.
5,700,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in the war.

9. The Russo-Japanese War 1905
Both Russia and Japan were competing for control of Korea.
Nicholas II declared war on Japan in 1904.
The Russians were defeated after a surprise attack on the Russian Navy in Port Arthur.
Humiliating defeat for Nicholas II & Russia

10. The outbreak of Revolution
In February 1917 bread riots break out in Petrograd.
Factory workers went on strike.
The soldiers sent to break the strikes and riots sided with the people.

11. The Kerensky Government March-November 1917
Czar Nicholas II abdicates in 1917.
A Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky is set up during the March Revolution.

12. Failure of the Provisional Government
The Provisional Government failed because:
It continued the war
It could not feed the cities.
It did not approve land seizures.

13. The Petrograd Soviet
The Petrograd Soviet became a rival to the Kerensky Government, taking on such tasks as regulating food supply and organizing a workers militia.

14. Revolutionary Parties
Mensheviks - Russia's moderate
Bolsheviks – Russia’s Radical Marxists
Karl Marx predicted that the workers would revolt against the factory in an industrial nation, note that Russia was an Agrarian society and not industrialized.

15. The Bolshevik Revolution November 1917
                         

16. Vladimir Lenin 1870-1924 Founded the Bolshevik Party.
Lenin was a Marxist Ideologist.
Lenin was exiled for many years, but returned in April 1917 and led a revolt against the Kerensky Government
Vladimir Lenin

17. Trotsky played a leading role in the October Revolution.
In 1918 he organized the Red Army and led it to victory during the civil war against the White forces.
Leon Trotsky

18. Lenin and the Bolsheviks promised the people what they wanted most:
Food
End Russia’s involvement in WWI
Land for peasants.
Bread, Land, & Peace

19. The Bolshevik Revolution November 6, 1917
On the night of November 6, 1917 Lenin and the Bolsheviks strike.
The Bolsheviks seize control of the government in Petrograd.

20. The Bolshevik Revolution
On November 7, 1917 the Petrograd Soviet (worker’s council) voted to support Lenin’s overthrow of the Provisional Government.
The Bolshevik Revolution

21. Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Russia’s treaty with Germany which takes Russia out of WWI

22. Civil War
Reds VS Whites (Bolsheviks) Lenin Kerensky Trotsky VS Anti - Stalin Bolsheviks

23. When the Bolsheviks came to power the imperial family was sent to the Ural Mountains.
The Czar and his family were executed on July 16, 1918 in the town of Ekaterinburg.
Czar Nicholas II

24. Results of the Civil War
The Red Army under the leadership of Leon Trotsky defeated the White forces.

25. Results of the Bolshevik Revolution
Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922 under the control of Lenin,Trotsky,and Stalin.
Formation of a communist government based on the ideas of Karl Marx.
The idea of a continued revolution to spread the ideas of Communism.