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