The Bolshevik RevolutionHistory 104 / April 1, 2013
V. I. Lenin(1870-1924)
Rasputin(c. 1870-1917)
- an illiterate peasant at the center of power
“Dual Power” I:the Provisional Government
Alexander Kerensky(1881-1970)
Summer 1917: Kerensky rallies the army to a new offensive
Demonstration in St. Petersburg against the war
“Dual Power” II:Soviets (Councils) of workers, soldiers, and peasants
Lenin after his return
from Switzerlandto St. Petersburg
(1917)
The Putilov Works: a stronghold of Bolshevik support
The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace,
October 24-25, 1917
(November 7 by Western calendars)
Leon Trotsky(1879-1940)
Civil War:“Red” soldiers strung up
by “White” officers
Civil War: recruiting Red Army volunteers(lower right – “are you with us or with them?”)
Civil War: teaching economics to future party members
Allied forces intervene in the Civil War(shown here in Vladivostok)
A sarcastic Bolshevik view of the
League of Nations
“Capitalists of all countries, unite!”
Cultural experimentation: cutting-edge artists support(a) education and (b) the “construction of socialism”
Joseph Stalin(1879-1953)
Stalin claims to be Lenin’s chosen successor
The First Five-Year Plan: industrialization from scratch(here: Magnitogorsk, a brand-new steel town in Siberia)
Magnitogorsk: an idealized picture of workers’fervent belief in “building socialism”
Collectivization: the promise of technology and efficiency
The cost of collectivization