THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917

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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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THE FIRST WORLD WAR
THE HOME FRONT

• War causes much suffering

• entire country mobilized

• patriotism limited waning

• scarcities of necessities

• mass inflation

• strikes and protests

• further loss of confidence in tsarist govt.

Female soldiers
Grigorii Rasputin
Tsar Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich
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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
FEBRUARY REVOLUTION

• Increasing unrest

• International Womens Day Feb. 24/March 7

• Womens protest joined by workers soldiers

• Tsar abdicates ending 300 years of Romanov rule

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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS
Alexander Kerensky

• DUAL POWER

• Creation of Provisional Government

• Establishment of Soviets

Petrograd Soviet of Workers Soldiers Deputies
Provisional Government
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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

• Provisional Government has many problems

• general chaos

• the Soviets

• the peasants

• awaiting Constituent Assembly

• the war

Pro-Soviet demonstration
1st Russian Womens Battalion of Death
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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

• All power to the Soviets

• Bolsheviks platform Land, Bread, and Peace

• July Days

• The Kornilov Affair

• formation of Red Guards

General Lavr Kornilov
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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

• The Bolshevik Plan

• establish Military Revolutionary Committee

• Lenin argues for Oct. 25 action

• Grigorii Zinoviev Lev Kamenev oppose plan

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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

• The Final Act

• Red Guards, soldiers, sailors take control of
  Petrograd, Oct 24-25 (Nov 6-7)

• Take Winter Palace arrest Provisional Govt.