The Russian Revolution

Back In The USSR

Causes Of The Russian Revolution• Tsar Nicholas II is

out of touch and inept.

• He rules through fear.

Russia Is Very Poor

During World War I, Russia Is Repeatedly Defeated By Germany

Tsar Nicholas Takes Command At The Front

Tsarina Alexandra Is Left In Charge

• This does not turn out well.

Rasputin• A special kind

of crazy? Or just a scapegoat?

Germany Sends Lenin Back To Russia

Lenin Adapts Marxism For Russia

• No urban proletariat? No problem!

• Dictatorship of the proletariat is the answer!

The Bolshevik Party• Get Russia out of WWI• Break the nobility• Marxist Revolution!

The Tsar Steps Down

Russian Civil War

The Royal Family Is Executed

Lenin & The Bolsheviks Win The Civil War

Differences From “Pure” Communism

• Party, not peoples’ rule• Rule by terror• Some private property allowed

Stalin Is Coming