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Includes build-up and aftermath
paved the way for the rise of communism as an influential political belief system around the world. -
-Anti semitism; Jewish pogroms
-one man rule, one religion, one race
-favored nobility over peasants/working class
-set the stage for russians not trusting the war -
was the last Czar of Russia under Romanov rule.
Created the Duma due to strikes and riots
poor handling of Bloody Sunday and Russia's role in World War I led to his abdication and execution. -
Was a war over land.
Japan had beat Russia.
Nicholas changes Russia from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy.
They create the Duma and expand more freedoms and rights but doesn't give Duma much power. -
the Duma was established by Tsar Nicholas II in his October Manifesto,
promised that it would be a representative assembly and that its approval would be necessary for the enactment of legislation. -
200,000 Russians marched to the Czars palace due to abnormal working hours and living conditions,
Over 100 people were killed.
The czar then created the Duma to try and please the people -
Russia had the biggest army going into WWI
Russia had some big loses of troops at the beginning of the war and had the people thinking and asking questions about how the military was run -
Was a man that seemed to have powers and could predict things that's happened
Rasputin was assassinated by members of the royal family
He was poisoned and shot but died to drowning
People didn't like what he was doing and what was happening and when he died it was part of the reason to the Czar of Nicholas's downfall -
Due to strikes and soldiers refused the czar to fire, Czar Nicholas ll stepped down and his lack of leadership and support weakend.
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Russia became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union) in 1922
Led by Lenin & the Communist Party
Lenin used a secret police called the Cheka to protect the revolution
Used force & violence
Lenin and his Bolshevik (Communist) Party overthrew government (Bolshevik Revolution) -
Civil war broke out in 1918 between supporters and opponents of revolution
Red Army = Bolsheviks
White Army = conservatives, anti-Bolsheviks, foreign troops
Red Army, led by Leon Trotsky, wins in 1920
Russia now officially under Communist control -
Russia became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union) in 1922
Led by Lenin & the Communist Party -
Lenin died in 1924
Competition to replace him btwn Trotsky & Joseph Stalin
Stalin won and ruled Soviet Union as a dictator -
Lenin died in 1924
Competition to replace him btwn Trotsky & Joseph Stalin
Stalin won and ruled Soviet Union as a dictator -
In January 1928 Trotsky and his principal followers were exiled to remote parts of the Soviet Union
In January 1929 Trotsky was banished from the territory of the Soviet Union.
After the death of Lenin and the rise of Joseph Stalin, Trotsky gradually lost his government positions; the Politburo eventually expelled him from the Soviet Union in February 1929. He spent the rest of his life in exile, writing prolifically and engaging in open critique of Stalinism.