Russian Revolution

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Russian Revolution

• Before the revolution
• Peasant society
• Economic changes 1905 uprising
• Lenin
• Collapse of the old order (1917)
• March Revolution
• Provisional government
• October Revolution
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Civil warReds v. Whites

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Unit 3 Overview

• Russian Revolution
• Totalitarianism
• Communist Russia
• Fascism
• Italy (Mussolini)
• Germany (Hitler)
• World War II
• Emergence of Cold War

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Russia Before Revolution

• Romanov Dynasty
• Aristocracy
• Orthodox Church
• Peasantry (80)
• Had been serfs until 1861

Czar Nicholas II and son
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Economic Changes

• Industrialization
• World trade
• Rise of bourgeoisie
• Constitutional Democrats
• Social Democrats
• Bolshevism
• 1905 revolt

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Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)

• Exiled to Siberia in 1895
• Professional revolutionary, operating from
  Switzerland until 1917
• Social Democratic PartyMarxist Capitalism must
  be overthrown by violent revolution

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March Revolution (1917)

• End of Romanov Dynasty
• Rule of Moderates (Provisional government)
• Reluctance of liberals
• Failure of the liberals
• Two main issues
• Growing anarchy
• German role
• Analysis

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October Revolution

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Redistribution of land
• Workers take direct control of factories

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Civil War

• Lenins autocratic actions
• Whites vested interests, army generals
• Reds Bolsheviks (renamed Communists in 1918)
• Role of the Allies