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Russian Revolution
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Background Russia was the largest regime (land and population) in Europe.
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ECONOMY - SOCIETY
- Weak, based on agriculture, slow industrial development opposite to others.
- Lack of social mobility (semi-feudal regime)
- Increase in industry creates low wages, child labor, miserable working conditions.
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POLITICAL SITUATION
1894-Nicholas II, autocratic rule, poor decisions.
Absolutism-repression of the czars; lack of enlightened ideas.
Duma (congress) rarely met
often disbanded by czars.
Russification-forcing many
nationalities of the empire to have
the same language (Russian),
customs, and traditions.
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Several political parties
– Democratic Constitutional Party (bourgois – Liberal)
– Social – Revolutionary Party (peasant revolution) Esers
– Russian Democratic Party (Marxist)
1912 Mensheviks
Bolsheviks
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Rasputin. Too much influence on royal family. Corrupt.
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Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)-humiliating loss.
“Bloody Sunday”-workers march peacefully, shot at.
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Revolution of 1905 (fails). Soviets will appear (assemblies of soldiers, peasants and workers) Strikes, violence,
demostrations….
Unfulfilled promises :universal sufrage, agricultural reform…
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REVOLUTION 1917 Immediate Cause—World War I
Russia’s poor showing (military disasters)
Lack of supplies, millions in casualties, desertions …
Revolution 1917 – Feb : bourgeois revolution
– Provisional Government
– October : Soviet Revolution
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Events of Revolution
February 1917
Social and economic crisis: inflation, lack of raw materials….
Military crisis
Development
23rd February , big demonstration in Saint Petersburg “peace and bread”
25th General strike
26th soldiers refused to shoot at people. Motinies in the quarters
27th _ Provisional Governmenl Luov + Kerensky Isabel Torralbo Talavera
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March. Czar Nicholas abdicates
Republic
Lenin back from exile.
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Provisional Government
Kerensky and the Mensheviks (moderate) still support WWI crisis
continued
April thesis Lenin “All power for the
soviets”
- Condemns the Provisional Government
as bourgeois and urges "no support" for it
-Calls for a parliamentary republic not to be established and calls this a "retrograde step." He calls for "a republic of Soviets of Workers‘
-Asserts that Russia is "passing from the first stage of the revolution —which placed power in the hands of the bourgeoisie—to its second stage, which must place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poorest sections of the peasants.
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TRUE OR FALSE? LENIN
Lenin’s brother was hanged for plotting to kill the czar.
Lenin was kicked out of college.
Lenin was exiled to Siberia for three years
Lenin was not his real name.
Lenin was mummified following his death.
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October / November Revolution
The Bolsheviks with the “Red Guard” take the Winter Palace (October 1917) Provisional
Government overthrown.
A workers´government was proclaimed led by Lenin. The revolution has succeded.
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First measures of the new government
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk—out of WWI. (very hard conditions for Russia)
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Land was expropiated and divided up between the peasants
Factories were taken over by workers´ comittees
November 1917 Elections for the Constituent Assembly
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PartyOt Votes Percent Deputies
Socialist-Revolutionary Party (SRs)
17,100,000 41.0 380
Bolsheviks
9,800,000 23.5 168
Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets)
2,000,000 4.8 17
Mensheviks
1,360,000 3.3 18
Others
11,140,000 26.7 120
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Civil war—Reds vs. Whites (1918-1921).
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Civil War 1918 - 1921
Combatant: – Bolsheviks (Red Army) led by Trotski
vs
– Mix of liberals and supporters of Tsarism (White Army)
Victory of the bosheviks: – Popular support
– Lack of coordination among the different armies
– Trotsky.
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Moscow capital (1918)—U.S.S.R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics 1922)
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After Civil War
- 1922 Federal
State: Union of Socialist Soviet Republics 1922
- Economy (1921-1928) NEP system of
mixed economy which allowed private individuals to own small enterprises
1924 Constitution
– Supreme Soviet (legislative power)
– Presidium ( head of State)
– Council of Peolple´s Commissars (Government
CPSU (Communist
Party of the Soviet Union
(book
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After Lenin’s death power struggle
Trotsky / Stalin
Trotsky export the
revolution
Stalin “socialism
in one country”
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Forced Russia into a modern industrialized nation.
Totalitarianism.
5 year plans—collective farms
Purges out all his enemies.
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USSR is a super power.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2z0nrsQ8o
What characters can you recognize in the video?
What vision (good, bad…) does it give from each one of them? Give specific examples.
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