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Includes build-up and aftermath
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-Anti-Semitism; Jewish pogroms
- one man rule; one religion, one race
- favored nobility over peasants/workout class
* Set the stage for Russian people to not trust the Czar -
-an autocratic but indecisive ruler
-helped support the Russian Revolution -
- He spent the rest of his life in exile, writing prolifically and engaging in open critique of Stalinism.
- Ruling by decree, Lenin's Sovnarkom introduced widespread reforms confiscating land for redistribution among the permitting non-Russian nations to declare themselves independent, improving labour rights, and increasing access to education.
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- war between Russia and Japan with Japan in victory -Russian defeats left Russia's empire demoralized
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-assembly created by Czar Nicholas II in 1905 when the government was desperate to divide the opposition during an uprising- The Duma also attempted actively but unsuccessfully to conduct political reforms and called to stop repressions of participants of the Revolution
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-13 unarmed civil rights supporters are shot dead by British Army paratroopers
-200 people were killed causing revolution -
- Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers
- World War I caused inflation in Russia from the war costs causing many to rebel against the government in the Bolshevik Revolution
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-Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative noblemen who opposed his influence over Alexandra and Nicholas.
- helped discredit the tsarist government and thus helped precipitate the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty -
-the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
- the army was the one who had more power, weapons and people, which helped the rebellion to succeed. -
-Bolsheviks overthrow Prov. government
-It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the USSR -
-the second and last major phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the Soviet regime
- led to a Bolshevik victory in the Russian civil war that followed, and the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922 -
-conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies
- suffocated the revolution, destroyed democracy, the communists established the Soviet Union in 1922 -
-officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a communist state that spanned Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
- increased crime rates and corruption within the Russian government -
- He died suddenly at 6:50 p.m. on Jan. 21, 1924, a few months before his 54th birthday. The cause of death: a massive stroke
- Stalin came into rule/ established a wave of radical economic policies that completely overhauled the industrial and agricultural face of the Soviet Union
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- Once Stalin gained power he enforced his power through several different methods, including fear, cult of personality, education and youth groups, propaganda, purges and force & compulsion.
- the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign.