RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1917 CHAPTER 23 SECTION 3 RUSSIAN

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1917 CHAPTER 23 SECTION 3

RUSSIAN REV • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=cm. KPLvctda. A While You're Watching What was a major event that led to the Russian Revolution? Who were the two armies fighting in the Russian Civil war? What major political party was formed as a result?

THE EARLY SIGNS • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=cm. KPLvctda. A • Russia’s 1 st revolution in 1905 - Czar promises Duma (legislature) for People’s voice to be heard in government • Russia unprepared militarily and technologically for total war of WWI • No competent military leaders • Russian industry unable to produce weapons necessary for the army • Told to train with broomsticks and get guns from dead soldiers • Russia suffered 2 million soldiers killed in action in first two years of the war • By 1917, Russia had lost the will to fight

MARCH REVOLUTION • Czar Nicholas II ruled Russia as an autocratic ruler and part of the Romanov Dynasty. • Nicholas II was at the front lines when a series of strikes started in the capitol of Petrograd(St. Petersburg) • Working class started strikes after bread rationing had started. (women factory workers) • Czar ordered soldiers to fire on strikers if they did not disband. • Soldiers would not fire on citizens and then joined the demonstrators. • Duma (legislature) sets up provisional government and asked the Czar to step down. • Czar Nicholas II steps down and ends the Romanov Dynasty that ruled Russia for over 300 years.

CZAR NICHOLAS II • Czar Nicholas ruled as an autocratic ruler. What does that mean?

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT • Russia made the mistake of staying in WWI • Authority challenged by Soviets • Soviets- councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers. Represented the more radical interests of the lower classes. • The Bolsheviks started as a small faction of a Marxist party called the Russian Social Democrats • Lenin led the Bolsheviks and were committed to violent revolution. • Lenin believed only a violent revolution could destroy the capitalist system

BOLSHEVIKS SEIZE POWER • Night of November 6, Bolshevik forces overthrow the provisional government by seizing the Winter Palace • Overthrow is at same time at meeting of All Russian Congress of Soviets. • Government collapsed with hardly any bloodshed. Called the October Revolution • Bolsheviks take over and rename themselves the Communists • Lenin had promised peace but that meant losing large amounts of land

• On March 3, 1918 Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest. Litovsk with Germany to end Russia’s part in WWI • Russia loses eastern Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and Baltic Provinces.

CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA White Army Red Army • Anti-communist supporters, Allied Powers • Allied powers sent material aid to White Army • No common goal to fight for, wanted different governments • Communists • Single-minded sense of purpose • Patriotic feeling to fight against foreign control of Russia • Red Terror- secret police that destroyed all that opposed them

• White Army? ? ? • Red Army? ? ?

MURDER MYSTERY! • http: //www. history. com/topics/russian-revolution/videos

• The royal family was victim of the Civil War • After Czar stepped down, he, his wife and five kids were held prisoners and then murdered and bodies burned. • By 1921, the Communists were in total control of Russia. They had turned Russian into a centralized state dominated by a single party. • The Communists were hostile to Allied Powers because they tried to help the Communist enemies

CZAR’S FAMILY