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Russian Revolution

By connor_r_krisko

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    • unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
    • the events in St. Petersburg provoked public outrage and a series of massive strikes that spread quickly throughout the industrial Russian Empire.
    ~ Bloody Sunday is considered the very start of the Russian Revolution.

  • World war 1

    World war 1
    • More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.
    • Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war.
    ~ Russia entered the war with confidence but a very weak political, social, and economic state. The Russian people wanted change at the time and the war was leading no where. This mentality started the February Revolution...

  • February Revolution Begins

    February Revolution Begins
    • The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd over the lack of food.
    • On March 11, the troops of the Petrograd army garrison were called out to quell the uprising. In some encounters, regiments opened fire, killing demonstrators, but the protesters kept to the streets, and the troops began to waver.
    ~ The February Revolution started the war against Russia for lack of needed resources.

  • October Revolution Begins

    October Revolution Begins
    • Led by Lenin the revolution centered on Petrograd, then the Russian capital, where longstanding discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing.
    • Revolutionary activity was largely confined to the capital and its vicinity, and lasted about eight days.
    ~ This led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, The end of the Romanov dynasty, and the end of the Russian Empire.

  • Russian Civil War begins

    Russian Civil War begins
    • The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
      • The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism (soon to be communism) led by Vladimir Lenin, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army.
    ~ The Russian Civil War started in order to tear Russia apart for 3 years.

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed by the Central Powers and Russia to take Russia out of WWI.
    • In the treaty, Bolshevik Russia ceded the Baltic States to Germany.
    ~ The Treaty benefited the Russians immensely. The February and October Revolutions had torn apart their economy and with the beginning of the Russian Civil War they were very low on troops, food, money etc.

  • Bolshevik Party is now the Communist Party

    Bolshevik Party is now the Communist Party
    • when the Bolsheviks became the ruling party of Russia, they changed their organization’s name to the All-Russian Communist Party.
    • The name communist was specifically taken to distinguish Lenin’s followers in Russia and abroad from such socialists.
    ~ the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991.

  • Russian Civil War Ends

    Russian Civil War Ends
    • The droughts of 1920 and 1921, as well as the 1921 famine were the main cause of the end to the revolution as lack of food, water, and troops caught up to the Bolsheviks.
    • Disease had also reached pandemic proportions, with 3,000,000 dying of typhus alone in 1920.
    ~ This put Russia into a terrible state, they had lost just about everything.