1917-1937
The Russian Revolution and the Rise of Stalin
The Russian Revolution
Tsar Nicholas II
The Russo-Japanese War
How did the outcome of the war affect Russia?
Social Problems in Russia
“Bloody Sunday”
January 1905
Father Gapon
Requests for labor laws
The response of the workers
Bloody Sunday
The Response of the officials in St. Petersburg.
How did Bloody Sunday impact the image of the Russian government?
Moving towards Revolution
Social Democrats
Mensheviks
Bolsheviks
March 1905
The Estates General
Moving towards revolution
The Mensheviks strike
October 1905
The October Manifesto
Duma
The response of the revolutionaries
The Duma
The Results of the Revolution of 1905
The first Duma
The Mensheviks in the Duma
“I do not expect to live to see the revolution” - Lenin
WWI in Russia
How was Russia different from other countries fighting in WWI?
The role of the Socialists
Personal Convictions
The Russian Middle Class
WWI in Russia
Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes
The Central Powers
The response of the Tsar
The Response of Russian Generals
The Russian Civil War
Alexandria
The Tsar’s son
Grigori to Rasputin
Rasputin’s Reputation
The response of the Duma?
The assassination of Rasputin
The Russian Revolution
The Tsar arms the police with machine guns.
Food Riots
“Down with the Tsar”
The Duma Committee
The Petrograd Soviet
The Russian Revolution
The Duma Committee
The Petrograd Soviet
March 14, 1917
The removal of the Tsar
March 17, 1917
The Russian Revolution
• Problems with the new provisional government
• Universal male suffrage
• Creating a constituent assembly
• Continuing the war effort
The Russian Revolution
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
Lenin’s 4 major points
“Peace, land, and bread”
The Russian Revolution
November 1917
The Petrograd Soviet
Leon Trotsky
Josef Stalin
The provisional government flees
The Council of Commissars
The Russian Revolution
March 1918
The Communist Party
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Trotsky
Losses for Russia?
The Russian Civil War
Resisting the Communists
The “Whites”
Aid from the Allies
The Cheka
The Red Army
The Russian Civil War
Britain and France
Japan and America
Murmansk and Archangel
Vladivostok (August 1918)
The Russian Civil War
1918-1920
Trotsky
Unity
Poland
Red Terror and the Cheka
The USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Russian Soviet Federated Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Byelorussian (White Russia) Soviet Socialist Republic
The Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republic
THE USSR
The New Economic Policy (1921)
Internal Controversy
Retreating to capitalism
State capitalism
Trotsky and Stalin
THE USSR
Lenin’s Death
Leningrad
Trotsky and Stalin
Trotsky leaves Russia
Trotsky’s death
Industrialization in the USSR
The Five Year Plan
The Hammer
The Sickle
Command Economy
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution in the USSR
Industry 1927-1928 Target for 1933 “Optimal Variant”
Electricity (milliard kWh)
5.05 17.0 22.0
Coal (million tons) 35.4 68.0 75.0
Oil (million tons) 11.7 19.0 22.0
Pig-iron (million tons)
3.3 8.0 10.0
Steel (million tons) 4.0 8.3 10.4
Goals for the First Five Year Plan:
The Five Year Plan
Collectivization
Livestock?
Private food?
Pay?
Stalin’s reaction to collectivization
Results of the Five Year Plan
Electricity 13.4
Coal 64.3
Oil 21.4
Pig Iron 6.2
Steel 5.9
What were the results of the first five year plan?
Stalin
The Second Five Year Plan
The Purge Trials
The Old Bolsheviks
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