BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

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BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
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BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

• Nicholas II and Alexandra Romanov
• Doomed from the day of their wedding
• 1300 people died on that day
• The couple went ahead and attended a ball given
  by the French embassy.
• Already the people began to loathe the seemingly
  callous couple

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In the Beginning

• The Tsar was cursed from birth
• Did not want to be tsar
• Tortured psychologically by his father
• His priorities were his family not his country.
• Would rather go on a cruise with his family than
  deal with the problems brewing in his country.

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THE IMPERIAL FAMILY
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LONG TERM REASONS

• People were angry with the government.
• Russia was an autocracy.
• Peasants wanted more land
• Bread lines were long,
• Working conditions (factory workers) were poor.

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RASPUTIN

• Holy man from Siberia
• Tsar trusted Rasputin
• Healing Powers??
• No political experience

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BLOODY SUNDAY

• January 22, 1905
• Proletarians protested at the Winter Palace
• Working conditions were bad
• The guards began to fire into the crowd.
• Many were killed
• Bloody Nicholas.

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BLOODY SUNDAY
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STRIKES AND REVOLTS

• Bloody Sunday caused many revolts and strikes.
• Tsar did not care about the people
• Gap between upper and lower class widened.
• Ideas of revolution began to stir.

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BAD DECISIONS

• Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905
• Wanted a port that would not freeze.
• 15,000,000 soldiers.
• Battle of Tsushima straights
• Yula River.
• Portsmouth treaty
• People wanted Freedom of speech as well as
  political freedom.

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DUMA

• Imperial Manifesto
• The Duma-elected government body
• Seemed Nicholas was making an effort.
• Tsar would not keep his bargain.

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THE GREAT WAR

• Russia a united front
• Transportation was inadequate
• food shortage around the country
• 3 bullets a day.
• Moral started to nosedive with the Russian people
• Protest and strikes started up again
• Nicholas commanded his army to put an end to all
  disorderly conduct in the streets of the capital

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LENIN

• In the background was a man named Vladimir Ilich
  Ulyanov or Lenin.
• Exiled to Siberia in 1895 for joining a communist
  ring
• He returned in 1900 and begin to fuel the fire of
  revolution.
• Leader of the Bolshevik party which believed in a
  five year socialist state in a conversion to
  communism.
• War cry was Peace, Land, and Bread.

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Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin
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DEATH OF THE MAD MONK

• Nobles assassinate Rasputin
• Poisoned
• Shot twice
• Thrown into the Neva River
• Too little too late

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MARCH REVOLUTION

• Lenin created a new Bolshevik
• the red army
• The Menshevik Party
• the white army.
• The red army beat the white army
• Ended in the abdication of Nicholas and his son.

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END OF THE ROMANOVS

• Family exiled to Siberia.
• Bolsheviks moved the family to Yekaterinberg.
• Family was assinated on July 16-17, 1918

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END OF AN ERA

• 1918 peace treaty signed to end WWI.
• The white army was defeated by the Reds in 1920.
• Communist state of Russia would last 74 years.