The Russian Revolution

The Russian RevolutionHWH UNIT 10CHAPTER 14.5Background to the RevolutionIndustrialization and ModernizationRevolutionary groupsThe cadets (Constitutional Democrats)Western-style liberalsUrban workersPeasantsMirsKulaksIntelligentsiaPopulists vs. Marxists

Marxists DividedMensheviks (softs)open partyFocus on similaritiesCooperate with liberals

Bolsheviks (hards)LeninRevolutionary elitePurges

V.I. Lenin (1870-1924)LeninismThe PartyUnionsPeasantsThe Party Elite

The Revolution of 1905The Russo-Japanese War

Father Gapon

Bloody Sunday

Revolution, 1905

The Revolution of 1905Workers SovietsThe October ManifestoThe DumaConstitutional Democrats

The Russian Constitution of 1906World War One

The Petrograd Riots (March 8, 1917)

The Petrograd Soviet

The Duma Committee

Prince Lvov(Constitutional Democrat)

Alexander Kerensky

Nicholas Abdicates, March 17, 1917

April, 1917Lenin returns via the sealed trainPeace, Land, and BreadAll Power to the Soviets

Kornilovs RebellionSeptember, 1917

The Bolshevik RevolutionNovember, 1917

Communists in PowerConstituent Assembly (January, 1918)The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March, 1918)The ChekaThe Red ArmyLeon Trotsky

Civil War, 1918-1922War CommunismReds vs. WhitesThe Red TerrorThe Execution of the Royal FamilyJuly, 1918

The Union of Soviet Socialist RepublicsThe New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-27The Role of WomenSocialist Realism

Comintern

Death of Lenin, 1924Stalin

Trotskyvs.Socialism in One CountryPermanent Revolution