The Russian Revolution

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The Russian Revolution
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I. Pre-Revolutionary Russia

• Last absolute king
• No democratic gov
• Nicholas II became Tsar in 1884
• Divine right

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II. The Revolution of 1905

• Peace, Land, Bread!
• Workers
• Bloody Sunday
• Peaceful protest
• Soldiers open fire
• Tsar cant ignore problems
• Forms Duma legislative body
• Tsar basically ignores

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IV. Alexandra The Power Behind the Throne

• Wife of Tsar
• Alexis Son with Hemophilia
• Believes Rasputin has power to heal him
• Scandals around Rasputin discredits Tsar

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V. World War I The Last Straw

• Broke Russia economy
• Shows weakness of Tsar
• Kills thousands
• People upset

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VI. The Collapse of the Imperial Government

• Alexandra and Rasputin throw the government into
  chaos
• Rasputin is assassinated

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VII. The Two Revolutions of 1917

• Food strikes
• The March Revolution (March 12)
• The November Revolution (November 6)
• Lenin in charge
• Communist revolution
• Class Struggle
• Redistribution of land
• Overthrow the Tsar

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Stalin
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Totalitarian State

• A government that takes total, central state
  control over every aspect of public and private
  life

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Control Methods

• The Great Purge campaign of terror against
  enemies who threatened his power
• Killed or sent to Gulags (death camps)
• Est between 8-13 million deaths

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Propaganda

• Controlled all newspapers, radio, movies, and
  information
• Glorified the achievements of Stalin communism

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Religious Persecution

• Replace Orthodox teachings with communist
  teachings
• Destroyed churches synagogues

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Industrial Policies

• Command Economy Government makes all economic
  decisions
• Five-Year Plans high quotas (goals) for output
  of steel, coal, oil, electricity
• Limited consumer production
• People faced shortages of housing, food,
  clothing, other goods
• Made some industrial gains

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Agricultural Policies

• Collective Farms Seized all private farms and
  combined them into large, government owned farms
• Hoped to boost food production
• Resistance among kulaks, wealthy farm owners
• In Ukraine, Stalin forced a famine by
  confiscating all food from kulaks

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Education

• Goal build a stricter society that adhered to
  creating a much more communist state
• Education law of 1935 allowed teachers to use
  strict methods of discipline
• Communist History taught
• Girls allowed in schools