Bolshevik%20Revolution

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Bolshevik Revolution

• The Fall of Czar Rule

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Nicholas II
(Rules 1894-1917)
Russo-Japanese War (1904)
Bloody Sunday (1905)
World War I (1917)
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Czarina Alexandra
Rasputin

• Wife of Nicholas II
• Ran government while husband away
• Fell under influence of Rasputin

Religious teacher who opposed reform spread
corruption throughout
government killed in 1916
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Bolsheviks
2 Groups fight for change in Russia
Mensheviks
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March Revolution (1917)

• Began when Women textile workers led strike in
  Petrograd
• Protested shortages of food fuel
• Soldiers turned on Government and refused to fire
  on crowd

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Nicholas II steps down

• March revolution forces him to abdicate throne
• 1917
• Royal family executed 1918
• 300-years of Czar rule is over!

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Provisional Government

• Leaders of Duma set up provisional government
• Soviets are formed
• local councils consisting of workers, peasants
  soldiers

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Lenin Returns (April 1917)

• Lenin was in exile
• Germans helped return him
  to Petrograd (April 1917)

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Lenin promises a new way to govern
All Power to Soviets
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Provisional Government Falls

• Lenin seizes power in November 1917
• Lenin distributes land to peasants and factories
  to workers
• Will Marxism work?

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Discussion Points

• Did Lenin steal power?
• Did he force his rule on Russia?

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Critical Thinking

• What will make it difficult for Lenin to achieve
  his goal of Marxism in Russia?