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Page 1: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

Page 2: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov– Doomed from the day of their wedding– 1300 people died on that day– The couple went ahead and attended a ball

given by the French embassy.– Already the people began to loathe the

seemingly callous couple

Page 3: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

In the Beginning

The Tsar was cursed from birth– Did not want to be tsar– Tortured psychologically by his father

His priorities were his family not his country.

Would rather go on a cruise with his family than deal with the problems brewing in his country.

Page 4: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

THE IMPERIAL FAMILY

Page 5: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

LONG TERM REASONS

People were angry with the government.– Russia was an autocracy.– Peasants wanted more land– Bread lines were long, – Working conditions (factory workers) were

poor.

Page 6: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

RASPUTIN

“Holy man” from Siberia Tsar trusted Rasputin Healing Powers?? No political experience

Page 7: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

BLOODY SUNDAY

January 22, 1905 Proletarians protested at the Winter Palace

– Working conditions were bad

The guards began to fire into the crowd. Many were killed “Bloody Nicholas”.

Page 8: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

BLOODY SUNDAY

Page 9: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

STRIKES AND REVOLTS

Bloody Sunday caused many revolts and strikes.

Tsar did not care about the people Gap between upper and lower class

widened. Ideas of revolution began to stir.

Page 10: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

BAD DECISIONS

Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905– Wanted a port that would not freeze.

15,000,000 soldiers. Battle of Tsushima straights Yula River. Portsmouth treaty People wanted Freedom of speech as well

as political freedom.

Page 11: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

DUMA Imperial Manifesto The Duma-elected government body

– Seemed Nicholas was making an effort.

Tsar would not keep his bargain.

Page 12: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

THE GREAT WAR

Russia a united front Transportation was inadequate food shortage around the country 3 bullets a day. Moral started to nosedive with the Russian people Protest and strikes started up again Nicholas commanded his army to put an end to all

disorderly conduct in the streets of the capital

Page 13: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

LENIN

In the background was a man named Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov or Lenin.

Exiled to Siberia in 1895 for joining a communist ring

He returned in 1900 and begin to fuel the fire of revolution.

Leader of the Bolshevik party which believed in a five year socialist state in a conversion to communism.

War cry was “Peace, Land, and Bread.”

Page 14: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov “Lenin”

Page 15: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

DEATH OF THE MAD MONK

Nobles assassinate Rasputin Poisoned Shot twice Thrown into the Neva River Too little too late

Page 16: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

MARCH REVOLUTION

Lenin created a new Bolshevik– the red army

The Menshevik Party – the white army.

The red army beat the white army Ended in the abdication of Nicholas and his

son.

Page 17: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov –Doomed from the day of their wedding –1300 people died on that day –The couple went ahead and

END OF THE ROMANOVS

Family exiled to Siberia. Bolsheviks moved the family to

Yekaterinberg. Family was assinated on July 16-17, 1918

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END OF AN ERA 1918 peace treaty signed to end WWI. The white army was defeated by the Reds

in 1920. Communist state of Russia would last 74

years.