Russian Revolution Flow Chart
Russian Revolution Flow Chart
Russian Revolution Flow Chart
EVENTS OF 1905
Bloody Sunday 200,000 workers march on czars winter palace Troops fire on crowd, 1,000 + killed Creation of Duma First parliament of Russia Czar forced to share power; dissolved it after 10 weeks
MARCH 1917 (February in Russian Calendar) 200,000 workers march on St. Petersburg (Petrograd) over bread and fuel shortages Czars soldiers joined the crowds
DOWN WITH AUTOCRACY!
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
Temporary Government Led by: Alexander Kerensky
But the Provisional Government did not have as much power as the
Formed by social revolutionaries Local councils in cities Consisted of workers, peasants, and soldiers
NOVEMBER REVOLUTION
Led by: Vladimir Lenin, leader of Bolshevik Party (Communists!) His slogan: Peace, Land, and Bread Bolshevik Red Guards took over govt offices; arrested Prov. Govt leaders Bolsheviks in power November 1917
All farmland distributed to peasants Factories controlled by workers End Russias involvement in WWI Gained many opponents, leading to Russian Civil War
RESULTS OF THE CIVIL WAR Red Army crushes all opposition to Bolshevik rule Russian economy destroyed: no trade or industrial production
NEW COUNTRY
Lenin organized Russia into self-governing republics Central Government controlled them! 1922: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Capital: Moscow Lenin had created a Dictatorship of the Communist Party This becomes known as Leninism