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According to Marx society is divided into Bourgeoisise and Proletariat Marx claims that a revolution led by working class would end inequalitiy Bourgieosie: the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
Proletariat: workers or working-class people, regarded collectively
Class conflict: the tension and antagonism that arises between social classes due to their competing interests over resources, power, and wealth. -
Tsar Nicholas was described as a weak and unprepared leader. Khodynka Tradgedy: a crowd crush that occurred on 30 May. 18 May 1896, on Khodynka Field in Moscow, Russia. The crush happened during the festivities after the coronation of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II. -
Russian people were protesting because they wanted to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas
They were protesting in St. Petersburg near the winter palace.
The protesters got beat with clubs then they threw gas things at them
It was called bloody Sunday because peacful protesters were attacked
Clergy: the body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church.
St. Petersburg/petroguard: Major city in Russia -
The Russian Public was mad they lost a war that they didn't need to be in. -
He was a Russsian mystic with immense influence over Tsar Nicholas. A Tsarina was the wife of a russian Tsar. He healed her son then she trusted him then that led to extended political beliefs. Rasputin was assasinated. -
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia
Lenin was the driving force behind the revolution
Lenin promised peace, land, and bread
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Abdicate: Ones thrown
The thought of equality Sparked the revolution in marchThousands of women, primarily factory workers, marched on February 23, 1917, to protest the devastating impact of World War I and the severe food shortages in Russia Women helped in the revolution by they boycott British items, and the military joins them and did fundraisers for the military
Czar ordered his stoops to disperser the crowds and saw it as a minor disturbance -
Bolsheviks: a radical socialist faction in Russia, led by Vladimir Lenin, that seized power in the 1917 Russian Revolution
Mensheviks: a Party, opposed to the Bolsheviks and defeated by them after the overthrow of the tsar in 1917.
Provisional government: a temporary government set up to manage a period of transition
Soviet: the people/government of the USSR
The goal of the october revolution was to overthrow the Provisional Government, end Russia's involvement in World War I -
They gave up a bunch of terriotory when they signed this treaty
They signed this treaty due to the weakness of their military and the war was promised to end -
Red army: the army of the Soviet Union, formed in 1917 under the leadership of Leon Trotsky after the Russian Revolution
White army: anti-Bolshevik forces that fought against the Red Army in the Russian Civil War The purpose of war communism was to centralize the economy and advance towards a socialist state -
Lenin adapted Marx theories about the government.
He adapted this because he saw it as a powerful tool in revolution -
checka: had virtually unlimited power to detain, torture, and execute anyone they deemed a threat,
The main leaders during this time were Vladimir Lenin and Felix Dzerzhinsky. Ordinary people lived in fear of violence or being killed during this time. The Romanovs were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries. I think that the terror happened because of the Bolshevik government and that many attempted assassinations. -
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. -
I have learned that the revolution took time to actually happen while there were many things leading up to the revolution. I think that Russian people were better after the revolution. It teaches us that people should be treated equal no matter what and no one should have more power than anyone else in the government .