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Russian History
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Decembrist Revolt
In December of 1825 in St. Petersburg, Russia, a group of military officials staged a revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. These rebels were liberals who felt threatened by the new ruler's conservative views. They were, however, defeated by the tsar's forces. As a result of this revolt, Nicholas I implemented a variety of new regulations to prevent the spread of the liberal movement in Russia.
• 3,000 men began open revolt against the tsar
• Sixty to seventy rebels died -
Emancipation of the Serfs
● By the 19th century half of the peasants were surfs and were under complete control of their nobles.
● After the Crimean war Tsar Alexander II realized Russia was no longer a major military power
● The Russian Surfed based economy could no longer compete with the industrial economies of European powers
● Alexander II initiated17 legislative acts that freed the surfs of Russia -
1905 Revulution
● Caused by bloody Sunday
● Workers, middle class citizens and students all protested
● June 1905, the battleship Potemkin sailors protested rotten meat and started a mutiny. The captain ordered the leaders be shot. The firing squad refused and threw the officers overboard
● Mutiny spread throughout the army and navy
● October 1905, industrial workers and railway workers went on strike
● Leon Trotsky established the St. Petersburg Soviet party -
Bloddy Sunday
● Russian workers grew angry over long hours and little pay
● 110,000 workers in St. Petersburg went on strike
● A group of workers lead a procession into Winter Palace to present a petition Nicholas II
● When the workers reached the Palace they were attacked, 100 dead, 300 wounded -
Russia WWI
entered the war after Austria declared war against Serbia, because Russia had made itself the guardian of all Slavic and/or Eastern Orthodox peoples After the war millions or Russian soldiers were dead or wounded and the national economy was in debt by millions
Russia signs a treaty with Germany to end the war between them March 3, 1918 -
Rasputin Murdered
• Was a peasant that was in a high position in Russia
• The tsar thought this to be a threat
• claimed powers of healing and prediction
• murderd by the aristocracy
• was poisoned, shot, beaten and thrown in a river
• he died of drowning -
March Revolution
, Petrograd workers began several strikes and demonstrations
March 7 workers at Putilov, Petrograd's largest industrial plant, announced a strike
the Tsar ordered the army to suppress the rioting by force, troops began to mutiny -
Tsar Nicholas II Adbicates
Reasons:
WW I
Russia had an unfair class system where the conditions of the workers and peasants were unfair because of living conditions and insufficient payment. Peasants made up a majority of the army which contributed to WW1 being a reason for the abdication. This is because lack of success throughout the war increased unpopularity towards the Tsar. secret police to help control the country. Their methods were brutal; they killed loads of people and took people from families. This made Tsa -
Bolshevik Revolution
-peasants and working class grew angry over unequally distributed land
-also angry about world war 1-thousands of peasants and poor sent to fight
-Bolshevik leaders told workers to seize land for themselves
-these attempts were stopped by the government
-Bolshevik gained power when thousands were dying in World War 1
-government soldiers also began supporting Bolshevik party
-November 6-7 Red Guard soldiers and other revolutionary groups, under the command of Lenin, seized rail road stations, po -
Murder of the Romanovs
• Killed by Bolsheviks
• Nicholas II was removed from power in march 1917
• His family was taken prisoner by the Bolsheviks and taken to Ekateringburg
• The family was killed and their bodies buried outside of the small town
• Rumors are still around that the youngest daughter Anastasia survived and escaped the execution -
Treaty of Versailles
● Lands that the Russian Empire had controlled before world war 1 (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, East Prussia, and Poland) were given back -
Death of Lenin
• Dies of stroke
• December 1922 formation of the USSR
• Merger of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. -
Stalin Takes Power/ Death of Trotsky
● Trotsky: -Leader of the Bolsheviks with Lenin and helped lead the Establishment of the Soviet Regime
1. Died Aug 22, 1940
2. After Lenin died was more open with his disagreement with the communist party
3. Expelled from the party in 1927 and later deported from Russia
● Lenin stated in his will that Trotsky should take over the communist party
● Stalin became general secretary of the communist party
● Trotsky was unpopular
● Stalin told Trotsky the wrong date for Lenin’s funeral
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