russian revolution

By mallory_e_zerphy

  • Russia industrializes

    the number of factories in more than doubled. by 1900 russia became the 4th steel producer in the world. made the trans-siberian railroad. had growing issues with the growth of working conditions, low wages, and child labor laws.

  • Czars resist change

    had strict censorship codes on published materials and written documents. had secret police watching secondary schools and universities. teachers had to send detailed reports about all the students.

  • crises at home and abroad

    russia faced multiple crises and it showed the weakness of the czar and paved the way for a revolution. russia and japan competed for control.

  • bloody sunday

    russian workers tried to petition the czarfor better working conditions, freedoms and representative goverment.the czars troops fire on the petitioners and killed people.the event covered socioeconoic issues that the russians had to deal with.

  • The march revolution

    riots started when they ran out of bread and fuel. almost 200,000 workers. it forced the czar to step down, a year later they executed them.

  • the boshlevik revolution

    in november workers stormed the winter palace in petrograd. they took over govt offices and arrested the leaders

  • lenin returns to russia

    germans thought that lenin and his supporters would sit in russia and hurt the war, then they arranged lenins return to russia after being exiled.

  • comparing world revolutions

    most of the revolutions are pretty similar, like the russian revolution is pretty similar to the french revolution. they used violence and terror to control all the people in france and russia, france was a constitutional monarchy, but it was a state controlled society.

  • Lenin restores order

    industrial production stopped, and trade was at a standstill. he stopped his plan for state controlled economy, he changed to a new version of capitalism, called the NEP. then they organized into a different party called the ussr.

  • stalin becomes dictator

    stalin changed his name to stalin because it meant man of steel.he became the general secretary of the communist party. he was known to have a lot of power and not really know what to do with it.