Russian Revolution

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Russian Revolution

• SS6H7a
• Describe major developments following WWI the
  Russian Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles,
  world-wide depression, and the rise of Nazism

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Russian Revolution

• ESSENTIAL QUESTION
• How did the Russian Revolution contribute to the
  instability in Europe during and after World War
  I?

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Russian Revolution

• Czar (Tsar) Nicholas II
• - absolute ruler of Russia
• - was an ally of Great Britain and France during
  WWI
• - failed to solve Russias worsening problems
  during the war.
• - could not identify with his peoples problems
  and was eventually overthrown.
• - The czar and his family were brutally murdered
  by the revolutionaries

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Russian Revolution

• Reasons for Russian Revolution
• - too much money spent on the war when people
  were starving.
• - made peasants pay high taxes
• - did not allow representative government
• - poor working conditions for urban factory
  workers

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Events of the Russian Revolution

• Czar Nicholas II gave in to pressure from his
  people and allowed them to form a Duma, or
  national representative assembly, but this duma
  had very limited power.

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Events of the Russian Revolution

• - Russian people were tired of starving and
  tired of the high casualties (over 8 million) of
  the war. They revolted in March 1917 overthrowing
  Czar Nicholas II.
• - They formed soviets, or socialist committees
  of workers and peasants, to represent their
  interests.

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Vladimir Lenin

• - leader of the Bolshevik party (Communists), a
  soviet.
• - promised to take Russia out of the war and
  give all land to the peasants and all factories
  to the workers.
• - gained control of Russia in November 1917 and
  renamed the country,
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR),
• aka Soviet Union

After Lenins death in 1924, his preserved body
was put on display in Moscow. You can go there
today and see his body on display. Yuck!
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Russian Revolution

• - Many people opposed Lenin and the Bolshevik
  Party
• - Fighting began between different groups for
  the next three years.
• - After much burning villages and killing of
  civilians, the fighting stopped and the Bolshevik
  Party won.
• - Lenin remained leader of the USSR

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Vocabulary

• Soviet - socialist committees of workers and
  peasants
• Duma - national representative assembly
• Czar Nicholas II last czar of Russia
• Vladimir Lenin leader of the Bolshevik Party
  and first leader of the USSR
• Bolshevik - radical socialist group led by
  Vladimir Lenin