your thematic study for 2011
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Your Thematic study for
2011
Topic 3:Revolutions and Turmoil: Social and Political Upheavals since c.
1500
THE RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION
ISSUE 1: Pre revolutionary
Society and Government
Lets begin at
1900
Tsar = Autocracy
The Church Leaders
Nobles= owned 25% Land= very
wealthy
Proletariat= ex peasants now lived in towns, very very poor
The Peasants= country farmers,
former slaves, Extremely poor!!!
Nationalities= different cultures
RUSSIFICATION
Revolutionary GroupsKADETS
OCTOBRISTSSOCIAL DEMOCRATS
SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES
1903- RUSSO JAPANESE WAR
As a result from the
war
Living conditions=
poor
Working conditions=
poor
STRIKES BREAK OUT!!
WORKERS FORM
SOVIETS
BLOODY SUNDAY
OCTOBER MANIFESTO
DUMA
THIS MUST MEAN
REFORMS?
NO WAY!IM STILL
INCHARGE
STOLPIN TO THE RESCUE?
AGRICULTURE REFORMS
INDUSTRY REFORMS
WAS THIS A BAND AID
SOLUTION ?
YES…..STRIKES CONTINUED
RIOTS CONTINUEDWHY YOU ASK?WELL:
ISSUE 2THE ROLE OF EXTERNAL AND OR INTERNAL FORCES IN THE
COLLAPASE OF THE OLD ORDER AND SIEZURE OF POWER
Lets look at theFEBURARY
REVOLUTIONFirst
THE BIG MAJOR EXTERNAL
CAUSE…..
WORLDWAR I
POLITICAL SOCIAL
ECONOMICAL MILITARY
Now for theINTERNAL CAUSES…
Suffering of the winter
Industrial developmentshalter
Social discontent
$$$Economic problems $$$
Tsar’s incompetencyNo experience in the Army
Immorality of the Tsarina
Revolutionary movements
THERESULT OF THE
FEBURARY REVOLUTION
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT =
WEAK
NO EXPERIECNECOULDN’T AGREE
DELAYED ELECTIONS
MISTAKES
LENIN APRIL THESIS
JULY DAYS
KORNILOV vs
KRENSKY
THE BOLSHEVIK
REVOLUTION
HOW DID THEY SIEZE
POWER?
INTERNAL THREATS TO THE
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
INTERNALLENIN- BOLSHEVIKS
GENERAL KORNILOV
WORKERSPEASANTS
EXTERNAL
WORLD WAR I
ISSUE 3CONSOLIDATION
OF POWER
FEBURARY REVOLUTIONTHE PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT FAILED
TO CONSOLIDATEPOWER
THE PROVISONAL GOVERNMENT DID NOTHING ABOUT:-End of WWI-Alleviate food shortages-Improve poor living and working conditions.
OCTOBER REVOLUTION
LENIN TAKES OVER THE
PROVISINAL GOVERNMENT
HE WALKS OUT OF THE CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY
LENIN FOLLOWS THROUGH WITH:
LAND REFORMSINDUSTRY REFORMS
TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK
SOCIAL CHANGES
CONTROL??
RED GUARDS
COMMUNIST SOCIETY
CONSOLIDATIONMany/ALL of the aims of the Revolution and revolutionary theory had been met. Therefore the revolution had been consolidated!
THREATS TO THE CONSOLIDATION
CIVIL WAR
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
KRONSTADT REVOLT
ISSUE 4INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL
THREATS TO THE REVOLUTION AND HOW THEY WERE DEALT WITH
INTERNAL THREATS TO FEBURARY
REVOLUTIONGeneral chaosLenin’s return
KornilovOctober Revolution
EXTERNAL THREATS TO FEBURARY REVOLUTION
Foreign Forces
INTERNAL THREATSOCT REVOLUTION
• Election failure• Continuation of the War• Opposition from national groups• Counter Revolutionary Forces• Economic chaos• Political Problems
EXTERNAL THREATS
TO THE OCT REVOLUTION
FOREIGN TROOPS
THE END
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