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The Russian Revolution
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The Split of The Marxists
From revolutionary tactics, Russian Marxists split in two groups. The Mensheviks felt like they needed a more broad bas of popular support for this revolution. As for the Bolsheviks, they had a small number of suppored and comited revloutionares to suffer the consequenses of the revolution. -
Jappenese Retaliation
Two nations, Russia and Japan, had a series of agreements over Korea and Manchuria. Russia Disobeyed the trust of Japan which led to Jappenese retaliation. Due to Russias actions, Japan attacked Port Arthur, Manchuria. Due to news reports of Russian losses, the Russians back home started to revolt during war time. -
Bloody Sunday Massacure
200,000 workers and families in Russia went down to the Czars winter palace in St.Petersburg with a petition for better working conditions, more personal freedom and an elected lecture. Nicalos the second had soldiers fire at the crowed of demanding citizens. This action led around 1,000 people wounded and several hundread died that day; which Russia quickly put a name to this massacure called, "Bloody Sunday." -
The Duma
The Duma first met in May of 1906. They were leaders who wanted Russia to have a constitutional monarch identical to Britain. The czar ended the Duma after ten weeks, because he was averse about sharing his power. -
The Defeat of Many Defeats
1914, the year Nicholas II brought russia into World War I. Unprepared to handle the military and economic costs, they were no match for the forces of the Germans. World War I revealed the weakness of the czarist rule and military leadership. -
March Revolution Strike
A city wide strike lead by woman textile workers from Petregrad swarmed the streets shouting demands like, "Down with the autocracy" and "Down with the war." This was lead by shortages od bread and fuel this forces Nicolas the second to abdicate his throne. This led to not a strong goverment because of the replacement of Nicolas the second. -
"Peace, Land, and Bread"
With out warning, in Novemebr of 1917, armed factory workers storemd the Winter Palace in Petrograd. They would call themeselves the Bolshevik Red Guards.They also took over the goverment offices and arested the provisional government leaders. -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed by Germany and Russia March 1918. Russia gave up a lot of land to the Germans and its allies. The Russian people felt humiliated of the terms of the treaty. They objected to murder the Royal family. -
Raging Civil War ends
The white army was made up of many different groups which all had a common goal to defeat the Bolshevik red army. The diverse groups in the white army had hardly any corporation with each other, only the interest of defeating the red army brought them together. Even with many different armies the Bolsheviks still managed to keep power through this bloody war. -
Lenins new policy
Lenins originally planned for a state-controlled economy but in the end he applied an version of capitalism called New Economic Policy. The peaseasnts now eligible to sell their surplus crops instead of giving them to the goverment. Goverment maintained over major industries, while smaller factories, buissness, and farms were still under private ownership. The new policies that were inplaced as well as the peace slowly recoverd Russia. -
"Communist Party"
Russia became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in honor of the councils that helped during the Bolshevik Revolution. Communist Party which was known as the Bloshevik, the new name came from the writings of Karl Marx. This was the true beginning of the Communist Party.
