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Russian Revolution
Growing Tension
• Czarist Russia like a bomb with a long fuse• Exploded 1917, but fuse burning for ~100 yrs
Autocratic Czars
• Russia unstable to begin with• 1881-1917: Czars respond to revolutionary
pressure with secret police and persecution of minorities
Industrialization• Late 1800s: Russia industrializes• Terrible working conditions, low wages• Some favored revolution
Marxist Bolsheviks
• Bolsheviks- a radical Marxist (Animal Farm?) communist group
• Believed in revolution of workers and peasants (AF?) led by revolutionaries
• Leader: Lenin (AF?)
Bloody Sunday• 1905: Soldiers fire on workers petitions for
legislature and working conditions• Nicholas agreed to legislature later that year,
but soon dissolved it • Unrest!!
WWI• Russian army weak and
unprepared, Nicholas joins troops
• Wife governs with crazed holy man/hemophilia healer Rasputin
• 4 million Russians die in war• Revolts and strikes across
country
Revolution, 1917
• March: Nicholas steps down, weak provisional representative gov
• Soviets (local councils of workers) gain control• November: Lenin and his Bolsheviks arrest
provisional gov, redistribute farmland and take over factories (cuz they’re commies)
Civil War• Disunited White Army (czarists, democrats,
moderate socialists) fight unified Red Army (Bolsheviks)
• 14 million die from fighting and famine• Reds win
Reforms
–Bolsheviks now “Communist Party,” one-party dictatorship –Russia now “Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics” --communism aims for global revolution, so often avoids nationalism
Stalin assumes power
• Stalin (“man of steel,” AF?) increases power from 1922 until full control in 1928
• Lenin dies 1924• Stalin drives out
competition (Trotsky, AF?)
Don’t worry, he gets less attractive
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