Revolutions in Russia

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Revolutions in Russia
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1. Policies of the Czars

• Autocratic policies, harsh punishment, and
  resistance to change angered the Russian People.

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2. Industrialization and economic growth

• Bad working conditions, low wages, and child
  labor, as well as the workers low standard of
  living, lack of political power, the enormous gap
  between the rich and poor, rebellion.

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3. The Russo-Japanese War

• Russias losses to Japan sparked unrest at home,
  revealed the czars weaknesses, and led to the
  revolt in the middle of the war by Soldiers and
  Peasants at home.

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4. Bloody Sunday

• Provoked a wave of strikes and violence across
  the country and forced Czar Nicholas II to
  promise more freedom and create the Duma,
  Russias first parliament.

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5. World War I

• Revealed weaknesses of czarist rule and military
  leadership destroyed morale of Russian soldiers,
  who mutinied, deserted, and ignored orders.

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6. The March Revolution

• Forced the czar, Nicholas II, to abandon his
  throne allowed Duma to set up provisional
  government

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7. November Revolution

• Toppled the Duma (The provisional government) and
  gave power to Bolsheviks a political power that
  was created by the working class people.

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8. Civil War

• Caused millions of deaths from fighting and
  famine showed that Bolsheviks were able both to
  seize power and to maintain it crushed
  opposition to Bolshevik rule

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10. Karl Marx

• Marxs ideas formed the basis of the Communist
  revolutionary government.

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11. V. I. Lenin

• Led the Bolshevik revolution and restored peace
  and order

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12. Leon Trotsky

• Commanded the Red Army during civil war, but was
  banished from Russia by Joseph Stalin and later
  murdered

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Soviet

• Local council of workers, peasants, and soldiers
  (the working class)

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Communist Party

• A revolutionary party following the teachings of
  Marx and Lenin, based around the idea that
  everyone in society works together for the good
  of the country