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Russian Revolution
Objectives
Today we will be able to identify the main causes and phases of the Russian Revolution.
Causes
By late 1916, Russia faced rising prices and huge bread and fuel shortages.
Tsar Nicholas also lost the support of the people The Russian people did
not trust his German wife, Alexandra, or the peasant healer Grigory Rasputin.
The February (March) Revolution
Women were denied bread, which coincided with International Women’s Day protests.
These two contingents banded together and created a demonstration 10,000 strong.
They called for equal rights for women, a Russian republic and and end to the war.
The tsar abdicated when he could not suppress the demonstrations.
The Provisional Government
Moderates from the political center and moderate left formed a government. They sought a free, liberal
and democratic Russia.They issued amnesty for
political prisoners, codified equality for Jews and Muslims, promised to convene a constituent assembly and pledged to continue the war effort against Germany.
The Petrograd Soviet
There was a dual governmental system. The Provisional Government
and the Petrograd Soviet.The Soviet was made up of
elected radical local worker and military counsels.
They demanded that military officers show respect for common soldiers and sailors and that no military orders were to be issued without approval by the Petrograd Soviet.
Political Amnesty
Political prisoners returned to Russia.
This included Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the radical Bolsheviks.
He published his April Theses.
Read and analyze the April Thesis.
The October (November) Revolution
Lenin organized a takeover of Petrograd.
The Bolshevik party’s Red Guards executed the takeover.
They arrested the Provisional Government in the Winter Palace.
By the end of November, the Bolsheviks were in control of the largest country in the world.
The Bolsheviks in Power
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk The Russian-German
treaty ending Russia’s involvement in the war.
Gave Germany ¼ of what had been imperial Russia.
German troops occupied the Baltics.
The constitution of 1918
The Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
Read your section of the constitution.Summarize your section and be prepared to
report out to the class.Present your section to the class while the
class takes notes on the important aspects of your presentation.
The Civil War
Imperial and Provisional Generals raised armies to fight the Bolsheviks.
These forces became known as the “whites” because they opposed the “reds”
The Allies supplied and supported the white army. British, American and Canadian
forces landed on Russian soil on July 17.
They claimed they were deterring Germany from taking Russian land.
Whites and Reds both engaged in terror campaigns.
The Reds defeated the Whites in 1920.