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Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was the name given to the events which occored on Sunday the 22nd of January when in St Petersburg when peacefull protesters attempting to present a petittion to the Tsar Nicholas II were shot at by the imperial gaurd, this event was a significant trigger for the Russian Revolution as it showed that the government had no regard for ordanary people, and that the Tsarist Regime was not accountable to rule of law. Which demonstrates the Regimes distance from Classical Liberalism, -
Fall of Romanov Dynasty
The Russian Revolution of Febuary 1917 resulted in the abduction of Nicolas II, This is considerted to be the fall of the Tsarist Regime due to the fact that Nicolas's brother refusing to accept the crown. after the febuary revolution the Tsar and his entire family were placed under house arrest and a year later in july of 1918 they were all shot. The replacment of Tsarist government shows Ruissan abandonment of individualism as the new communist government instituted collectivist values. -
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution is a collective term for a series of Revilutions which lead up to the establishment of a communist government run by the Bolshevics. the first part of the revolution was the dismantelment of the Tsarist aristocracy, next came a provisional government (temporary) which eventually fell. In a nutshell, after the compromise of the Tsarist Government, Russia slowly drifted into an ever more socialist rule, which caused the forfit of many Liberal rights, -
Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty which the Allied Powers forced Russia to sign when Russia exited WWI, it declared that Russias commitments defulted to that of the Triple Alliance. The signing of this treaty marked the demise of Russian self interest as it setteled territory disputes which were ongoing due to individuals self interest. -
War Communism
War or Millitary communism was the economic andf political system used in Russia from 1918-1921. The policy was adopted by the Bolsheviks with the intent to keep towns and the red army supplied with food and arms. The system was adopted due to distruptions in the supply chains by the ongoing war. War communism was superceded by the start of Lenins New economic policy. the institution of communism restricted peoples ability to own private property and to have economic freecom and self interest. -
New Economic Policy
Lenins New Ecomonic Policy also know as state capitalism, was Vlasimir Lenins attempt to revive Russias economy by revocing the nationalization of industry and replacing it with a mixed economy, allowing private industry, while keeping government controll over banks, forign trade and large industries. This Policy reinstated to some degree the liberal atitude of private property and competition, but was still very far from the liberal ideas that were in use in American capitalist economy. -
Creation of the Soviet Union
The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was the name of the constitutionally communist state that operated from 1922-1991. Ruled from Moscow (the capital). As the Red Army moved from area to area helping communists ride to power, the Bolshevics slowly became more and more powerfull. Leading to the power struggle between Lenin and Stalin. After Stalins death Soviet rule became more relaxed and less harsh. This Sequence of events shows how liberal principals can be forced from a society. -
Death of Lenin
After a series of three strokes, and soon after the third he died, before his death he made power arrangments as to how things should be run after he was gone, in the plans Stalin was criticised for he saw the dangers of stalin being given unlimited authority, despite this stalin still rose to power and ruled Russia. Because of Lenins death all of Russia fell victum to the unliberal reign of Stalin -
Collectivization
The Main objective of collectovisation in the Soviate Union was to consolidate land and labour into collectve farms in an attempt to increase food production and supply raw materials for processing industry and the export of goods. collectivisation was seen as the solution to Russias problems with food distributionhowever it had great costs both human and social, which show the lack of individual rights and freedoms in Communist Russia including competition, self interst and economic equality. -
5 Year Plan
The five year plans were plans develpoed to serve as a guide for econmic development in Russia and allwed the communist party to organise itsself to acheve the goals set out in the plans. some were successful and were completed earlier than anticipated. others were abandoned altogether. there were 13 five year plans altogether and the first placed heavy emphisis on industization and heavy industry, these plans aided in the rejection of liberalism by governing peoples self interest. -
Purges
The Purges were a ritual cleansing of Communist Party members through wich members were reviewed and if deemed undesireable they were removed. early perges were meerly the leaving or expulsion from the party, but during the great purge undesireables were allmost certainly imprisoned arrested or even killed, prominant members hoever were safe which shows abandonment of Rule of law in Russia -
Holodomor (Ukrainian Famine)
Holodomor was a man made effort at the genocide in the Ukranian SSR. It is argued that the famine was a soviate attempt to curb Ukranian nationalism which the Soviates saw as an attack. an estimated 3-3.5 million people died of starvation.Other arguments say that the famine was a neccissary complication of heavy industrialization which occored in Russia at the time.The removal of the rights and freedoms of the (peasant) Ukranians continued Russias spiral away from liberalism, and from humanity -
Russo-German Non-Agression Pact
he The Russo-German Non-Agression pact was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia that established that Russia would not participate in WWII and that each party would not attack one another, which was encouraging for Germany because this way they wouldnt be waging a two front war. Germany suprisingly broke the pact less than two years after its signing. This pact illistrates two very non liberal states co-operating and ensuring that their non liberal leadership would last. -
Stalin's Death
After a stroke on march 1st, which left Stalin bedridden, he died four days later from an appearent "cerebral hemmorage" some believe that this resulted from Stalin ingesting rat poison which leads to hemmoraging due to its effect on the blood preventing it from coagulating. After hs death eight members of the Central Committee fought for his position. Stalin was never accoutable to Rule of law which makes all men equal and accoutable to the law no matter what their position. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a Soviate military reaction to the intergration of West Gremany into NATO through The Paris Act of 1954. It was essencially a mutual defence treaty between the communist states of West and Central Europe. The warsaw pact demonstrates how the communist governments at the time failed to adress the needs of their citizens.
