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Russian Revolution
Csar Nicholas II
Class Struggle
•Rapid Industrialization
•Workers unhappy with conditions
•Marxist ideas- workers would rule the country
Crises at Home•Russo-Japanese War (1905)
•Repeated Russian losses-unrest at home
Bloody Sunday•1905
•Workers petition the czar
•Wave of Strikes, violence spreads
WW1•1914-1917
•Final blow to Czar power
•Russia not ready to handle costs
Rasputin•Self-described Holy
man
•Influenced the Czars wife
•Made key political decisions opposing reform
The March Revolution•Women textile workers strike
•Exploded into general uprising
•Czar steps down
Provisional Government
•Temporary Government
•Continued to fight WW1
•Angered peasants
Bolshevik Revolution•November 1917
•Lenin Returns “Peace, Land, and Bread”
•Bolsheviks take power
•Gave farmland to peasants
Civil War•Lenin agrees to pull out of WW1
•Lenin faces unrest at home
•14 million die in revolution
Russian Order
•1921
•Lenin restores order
•New Economic Policy
•State controls major industries
Communist•Bolsheviks renamed the
Communist party
•Lenin established a dictatorship- Party held all the power
Joseph Stalin
•Cold, Hard, and Impersonal
•“Man of Steel”
•Worked behind the scenes to obtain power
Total Control•1928
•Totalitarianism- government takes total control of public and private life.
Totalitarian State
•Police Terror-Crush opposition
•Great Purge- Executed thousands who threaten Stalin’s powers
Propaganda•Stalin controlled all source of information
•Image- Everything is Fine
Education•Children learned virtues of
communist party
Religion
•Stalin Attacked Religion
•Beliefs mere superstitions
Command Economy
•Government makes all the decisions
•Five Year Plan-impossible production goals
•In order to reach these goals, consumer items were limited
Forced Migration
Agriculture•Collective Farms- Hundreds of
families forced to work on farms to produce food for the state
•Ukraine Genocide- 3-5 million died
Daily Life under Stalin
•More educated and skilled workers
•Women Gained Equal Rights
Mid-1930’s
•Stalin had complete control of Soviet Union (Russia)
•Industrial and political power
•Total social control ruled by terror
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