The RevolutionS of 1917

Popular Accident & Coup d’etat

J. Marshall, 2011

Rasputin – murdered, Dec 1916

Duma

Growing dissatisfaction over the war

International Women’s Day: bread strike

Meeting in the Putilov Works

Bread, Bread, Bread

THIS IS THE

CATALYST: 10 March

Army Patrols in Petrograd

Nicholas is at the front: “Nonsense, I shall not even reply.”

Soon police opened fire – more importantly…

12 March – revolutionaries controlled Petrograd14 March – Moscow also falls

The Tsar’s kozakken chose NOT to

Nicholas was blocked from Petrograd – and abdicated for himself and his son

Brother, Grand Duke Michael didn’t

want the job either!

16 March: The Tsar is replaced by the Provisional Government

• The Soviet (workers and soldiers) join Duma to declare P. Gov’t.

• Mostly moderate, led by Georgy Lvov and the Milukov’s Cadets

• Some radicals from Soviet (Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky all absent!)

• 2 promises: 1) Constituent Assembly – universal suffrage 2) To legalize strikes

• Seen by themselves as illegitimate – keep status quo

If vee can get rid to

zose pesky

Russians…Switzerland is

nice, but I’d really like to get to

action…

Lenin’s April Thesis

Must-know quotation #1

ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS

Must-know quotation #2

First All-Russian Session of Workers’ & Soldiers' Deputies

June, 1917

Petrograd Dissatisfaction: 18 June, 1917

"Down With The 10 Capitalist Ministers

All Power To The Soviets Of Workers', Soldiers', And Peasants'

Deputies

And To The Socialist Ministers

We Demand That Nicholas II Be Transferred To The Peter-Paul Fortress.”

July Days: 16-18 July

July Days: SHUT DOWN!

Provisional government troops versus ?

July Days: Lvov Quits!

July Days: Kerensky is in!

Call by Provisional Govt for People to Ignore the Bolsheviks

Lenin flees to Finland

Kornilov – leads Cadets

Karensky leads Socialists (NOT Bolsheviks)

General KornilovSo-what: Kerensky

arms the REDS

"Красная Гвардия” (Red Guard)

Kerensky

K

At the end of September, the Bolsheviks gain a majority in the Petrograd Soviet

Women of the Red Guard

Kerensky’s Women’s Battalion

Defenders of the Winter Palace

Duma Messengers

Sent from the Baltic to the Battle of Tsushima Strait – survived• 25 October, 1917: Ordered to sea by Alexander Kerensky – crew chose

to ignore order – seen as the first act of the November Revolution

Cruiser Aurora

Red Guard

Trotsky’s RED GUARD

Storming the Winter Palace: NOT

At the end of September, the Bolsheviks gain a majority in the Petrograd Soviet