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