RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Russia in the 19th Century Tsar is an absolute
ruler many people bound to land as
serfs great poverty and discontent
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Czar Alexander II Ruled 1835-1881
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Alexander II decides to end serfdom in
1861 Conservatives mad about reform Radical
feel it is not enough
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Narodniki or Peoples Will Want to kill the
Tsar Shoot and miss Bomb in dining room-late
of dinner Bomb in tunnel under road
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Alexander killed by home made grenade in
1881 Had just signed law calling for an assembly
to consider constitutional reform
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New Tsar, Alexander III mad no reforms hunts
down radicals with secret police executes some,
sends others to Siberia
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Czar Alexander III Ruled 1881-1894
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Alexander III dies before he can train son
Nicholas
Alexander III
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New Tsar is Nicholas II not real smart dislike
government work dislike confrontation wife Alix
nags uncles bully
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Nicholas II
George V
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After loss in Russo-Japanese War people want
change A group goes to the palace asking for
help Nicholas sends the army
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Bloody Sunday
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Revolution of 1905 riots and strikes throughout
Russia Nicholas forced to accept a legislature
the Duma
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1st Duma
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Nicholas not willing to share power dissolves
Duma twice and changes election laws until he
gets the group he wants
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Tsarevich Alexei Has hemophilia
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Tsarina Alix worries about her son Finds someone
she feels can help him
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Gregory Rasputin
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Alix tells Nicholas to listen to the advice from
our friend Lots of talk about Rasputin and Alix
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Those loyal to the Tsar get rid of Rasputin He is
poisoned shot beaten
tossed into a river
He drowns!
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World War I Russia does badly-many
killed people blame Nicholas March 1918
revolution
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Nicholas abdicates Moderates take over
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Alexander Kerensky
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Tsar under house arrest at Winter Palace
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Others dont feel this is enough
change Bolsheviks communists led by Vladimir
Lenin Want control of government and economy
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Leon Trotsky Father of the Red Army
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November Revolution Lenin and Bolsheviks throw
out Kerensky Civil war over Russia Whites vs.
Reds
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Tsar and family taken to Yakaterinburg They are
told to go down to the basement for a photograph
The Romanov family is shot and buried in the
forest
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Lenin and the communist win the civil war
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Lenin sets up communist government with state
ownership of banks, major industries and trade
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Lenin dies 1924
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You can see him today!
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Lenins successor Joseph Vissarionovich
Koba
Stalin