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Was a revolt agianst The Tsar at that time Nicholas I.
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Was a revolt agianst The Tsar at that time Nicholas I.
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On the March of 1917 Nicholas II Abdicates the royal throne, because everyone was rebeling against him even his own military. That was known as the Revolution of 1917
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Not the most competent of Russian Czars
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Russian expansion provoked Japan
Glorious victory would make him popular hero -
Father Gapon, a Russian Orthodox Priest led the uprising
Gapon led 200,000 people to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
Soldiers moved in and fired on the crowd
500 people were killed and 3000 wounded
Blood stained the snow at the Winter Palace -
Peasants openly took hay and timber
Protesting landowners found with throats cut
Crops and homes destroyed by fires -
The Russia's First Army commanded by Rennenkampf went into the heart of East Prussia held by the German Army, while the Russia's Second Army commanded by Samsonov aimed to cut off the German army's line of retreat.
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Nicholas and his family went to the basement of the house, because they were told they were having there family picture taken. When they got in the pose they were all shot to death
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On the March of 1917 Nicholas II gave up Abdicates the royal throne, because everyone was rebeling against him even his own military.
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Kerensky’s provisional government wouldn’t end the war
Bolsheviks gained support during the next 9 months -
The 2 groups are the mensheviks and the bulsheviks. Bolsheviks are in charge of Moscow the rest is choas.
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Bolsheviks stormed the winter palace, only 10 people were killed, By November 8th Petrogad was back to normal
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ended in 1922
The “Reds” led by Leon Trotsky- Bolsheviks
The “Whites” upper & middle class supporters of Provisional or Czarist Russia
People who lost the most due to revolution -
Series of brain hemorrhages
December 1922 – 2nd stroke left him paralyzed on right side
People tributed by:
Millions have visited body in Red Square
St. Petersburg (meningrad) renamed Leningrad
