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T h e R u s s i a n R e v o l u t i o n
Introduction The Russian Revolution occurred in the year 1917. Actually there were two Russian revolutions that year. In March the Russian people overthrew their Tsar, ending a thousand years of autocratic rule of Russia. Six months later the Provisional government, that had replaced Russian monarchy, was itself overthrown, and replaced by a Communist dictatorship. This revolution would lead to the rise of Communism and begin a new type of war that would last for over 70 years: The Cold War.
Nicholas II
Provisional Government
Communist Dictatorship
Lenin
Stalin
Trotsky
Tsar Nicholas II
* Born: 1868
* Tsar: 1894 - 1917
More interested in the war, then what was happening to his Russian people.
Alexandra
* Born: 1872
* Born in Germany
Why do you think the Russian people didn’t like her?
Anastasia
* Survived Massacre
* London Bank Account
* Anna Anderson
(Gregory Efivich Rasputin)
*Able to cure Alexsei’s
bleeding?
* Alcoholic, womanizer,
power hungry.
* Because of his relation with
Alexandra, he became
the most powerful man
in Russia!
Rasputin
Rasputin
* Murdered by the Grand Duke Pavelovich.
* Poisoned, shot, beaten with chain,...death by drowning!
* Discontent of all classes - peasants, workers, army, intelligentsia, bourgeoisie and aristocracy. Reasons for each?
* 1905 Revolution
* World War One
Defeats
Losses of over 10 million
Food shortages
Nicholas at the Front
* Hatred of Alexandra
Rasputin
Causes of the Russian Revolution
“Bloody Sunday” 1905
* Alexander Kerensky
* Duma
* Biggest Mistake was…
Provisional Government
* Exiled to Switzerland 1905
•Germans help in returning Lenin to Petrograd- “Sealed Train” Reason?
Return of Vladimir Lenin
Bolshevik Revolution (November 6)
* Provisional Government overthrown•Kerensky flees to the United States
•Signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia was out of the war.
Russian Civil War (1918 - 1922)
* Identify the Whites
* Identify Reds
* Red Army led by Trotsky.
* Foreign Intervention
Great Britain
France
United States
* Reasons why Reds won...
“Kill the Capitalists….or the capitalists will kill you”
* Establishment of the first Communist State
Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
* What is Marxism/Leninism ?
Death and succession of Lenin
* Lenin dies of Stroke - 1924* Power Struggle - Trotsky and Stalin* Exile and assassination of Trotsky* Stalin: Paranoia / Purges /
World War Two/ Cold WarDeath - 1953
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