Galaxy Pham, Chynna Fong

Ms. Kritzeck

English2A/ 3rd period

11/24/13

The Russian Revolution

A series of revolutions that took place in Russia, in which

- First revolution: January 1905- Second revolution: February 1917- Third revolution: October 1917

The Russian Revolution: What Was It?

A crowd of 150,000 workers, led by a Russian Orthodox Priest Father Gapon, protested

-Took place on January 22, 1905 A)Tsar’s Winter Palace at St. Petersburg -Protested due to food shortage and civil unrest -Didn’t mean to create a political reforms A) wanted help from tsar, Nicholas II a) improved lifestyle and working conditions

The First Revolution: “Bloody Sunday”

Troops fired at the protesters -protesters were defenseless

-several hundreds of protesters diedCreated series of reform movements: -Strikes

-Riots -Assassinations -Peasant outbreaks

“Bloody Sunday”: continuation

The Russian Revolution of 1905

The Winter Palace

February 23, 1917, Petrograd (St. Petersburg)

- 90,000 women workers marched through the streets shouting “Bread” “Down with the autocracy!” “Stop the war!”

- Males were sent off to fight in World War I - Hungry and tired from working in horrible

conditions

A couple days later Petrograd shut down due to lack of workers

The Second Revolution

Reforms were now caused based more on a political point

-people began to realize the corruption and incompetence of the tsar regime

A) Led to the abdication of tsar, Nicholas II -People demanded: A) duma or an elected parliament B) rights to form political parties

After the tsar abdicated his position in the government, a provisional government was created

-controlled by Duma (Imperial Parliament)

2nd Revolution: continuation

-Last Russian

Tsar

-born on May 18,

1868

•inherited the

throne when his

father, Alexander

III, died in 1894

•Weak ruler/

never wanted to

become tsar &

wasn’t prepared

to be one

Tsar Nicholas II

October 25, 1917 the Provisional Government was overthrown

-by the Bolshevik party (communist), led by Vladimir Lenin, and the Soviets (workers’ council)

-Took place at Petrograd (St. Petersburg)

Eventually the Bolsheviks took over full control of government and appointed themselves as leaders of Russia

-ended Provisional Government’s war with Germany through the establishment of the Red Army and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918

The Third Revolution

Civil war broke out between the “Red”(Bolsheviks) and the white(anti-Bolsheviks)

- Continued for several years

The “Red”(Bolsheviks) fraction won eventually

The civil war contributed to the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

After the Three Main Revolutions:

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<http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/russian-revolution-the-revolution-1905.html>.

"The 1905 Russian Revolution." The 1905 Russian Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2013. <http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1905_russian_revolution.htm>.

"Albert Rhys Williams. Through the Russian Revolution. 1921. Part II." Albert Rhys Williams. Through the Russian Revolution. 1921. Part II. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2013. <http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/rusrev/rr3.htm>.

"Revolution of 1905." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 20 Nov. 2013. Web. 24 Nov. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1905>.

"ISFP Gallery of Russian Thinkers: Vladimir Lenin." ISFP Gallery of Russian Thinkers: Vladimir Lenin. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2013. <http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers/vladimir_lenin.html>.

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