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Title: The Russian Revolution


1
The Russian Revolution
  • The story of Russia to USSR
  • Readings Spodek, pp. 658-661

2
Nicholas I (1825-1855)
  • Hated Industrial Revolution and French Revolution
  • Wanted to make world safe for autocracy
  • Fought against progress in Russia and Europe

3
Alexander II (1855-1881)
  • Son of Nicholas I.
  • He came to the throne during the Crimean War
  • Emancipated the serfs in 1861

4
Alexander III (1881-1894)
  • Increased the repressive powers of the police
  • Limited the power of the local assemblies
  • Pograms against anyone who was not Russian

5
Nicholas II (1894-1917)
6
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
  • Imperialistic Conflict over Korea and Manchuria
  • Russia trying to ward off rebellion

7
Bloody Sunday-January 22, 1905
  • Began in St Petersburg
  • Disaster of Russo-Japanese War revealed
    corruption and incompetence of czar
  • Created Duma, limited economic reform

8
World War I/ Rasputin
  • Had control over the Tsar Nicholas II and the
    Tsarina
  • Was murdered in December 1916
  • World War I was a disaster.

9
The Revolutions of 1917
  • February Revolution (March 8, 1917)
  • Czar Nicholas Abdicates

10
How Do Bolsheviks Get Power?
  • Lenin arrives in Petrograd (St. Petersburg)April
    16. 1917
  • Lenin calls for armed insurrection
  • Oct. 16, 1917 (Russian Calendar)
  • October Revolution begins, October 24, 1917
    (Russian Calendar), November 6, 1917 (Western
    European Calendar)
  • Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin

11
Treaty of Brest LitovskMarch 3, 1918
  • Lost 32 of the land
  • Lost Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
  • Much of the Ukraine
  • Much of Belarussia

12
Civil War and Lenins Rule
  • From 1918-1921
  • Reds
  • Whites
  • Creation of USSR
  • Nationalization of all land and banks
  • New Economic Plan
  • Lenin dies of a stroke

13
Power Struggle after Lenins Death and Stalins
Rule
  • Forced collectivization
  • The Great Famine
  • The Great Terror
  • Purges
  • Gulag

14
Contemporary Problems
  • Cold War with US from 1945-1991
  • Mikhail Gorbachevs Glasnost allowed Democracy to
    Emerge
  • Perestroikasocialism not possible in capitalist
    world
  • Resigns December 25, 1991
  • End of Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War

15
Boris Yeltsin
  • Problems
  • Economy was a mess
  • Workers not paid
  • National Debt
  • IMF and World Bank Money to Cronies
  • Politics a Mess

16
Today in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
  • A weak Boris Yeltsin names Vladimir Putin, former
    KGB agent, Premier then President
  • Communists Still Have Some Power Many want
    stability of Old System back

17
Todays Russia (continued)
  • Ethnic groups want autonomy or Independence
  • Putin has destroyed Chechnya
  • Reports of rapes and pillage
  • Nationalists want powerful Soviet Union
  • Questions still needing answers

18
Winners and Losers
  • Winners
  • Communist Party
  • Some Workers
  • Massive Literacy Projectall those who learn to
    read and write
  • Vastly improved health careall those who lived
    longer and healthier
  • Women
  • Losers
  • Poorest peasants
  • Traditional Russian upper classes
  • Many of those in traditional Russian middle
    classes
  • Those killed or imprisoned because of oppressive
    regime
  • Jews, Muslims, other ethnic minorities
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