Overview of Tsarist Russia

By EllsMc

  • 80% Peasents 4% Industrial Workers 2% Middle Class

    4% Industrial Workers
    2% Middle Class
  • Period: to

    Overview of collapse of Tsarism

  • Social Democrats first split- Bolsheviks/Mensheviks

  • REVOLUTION!

  • Lenin returned to Russia in final weeks of revolution

    Had to flee once more when order had been restored

  • Bolsheviks formally became a political party

  • Population 165,000,000

  • Outbreak of WW1

    People put faith in the Tsar

  • Tsarism seemed secure

  • Petrograd/ Moscow revolt

    Army joined uprising

  • Provisional Government created

  • Lenin returned to Russia

  • Provisional Government lost credibility

  • Lenin's uprising occured

  • Lenin proclaimed birth of first Soviet Republic