23 May

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23 May

• Final is a week from Tuesday
• Briefly discuss 32.5
• Homework Guided reading questions 33.1 and 33.2
  (729-738) by Wednesday (prepare for a quiz)

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The Russian Revolution

• Pages 729 to 733

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Background Information

• Vladimir I. Lenin heard of a revolution to get
  Czar Nicholas II out of power..traveled through
  Germany to Russia

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If you didnt get enough, more on Lenin

• Brother was executed in 1887 (attempt to
  overthrow the Czar Alexander III)
• Practiced law
• Sentenced to hard time (following in his
  brothers footsteps)
• Participates briefly in Russian politics ?goes to
  Western Europe

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Strains of War WWI

• 1914 Russia joins allies in WWI (Britain and
  France) Fighting against Germany and
  Austria-Hungary

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Strains of WWI continued..

• Industry- underdeveloped
• Transportation System- WEAK
• Enormous casualties in war
• SO WHO WAS TO BLAME?

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March Revolution 1917

• People unhappy with war and food shortage
• Bread and Peace
• Peasants overthrew czars officials and seized
  some land.
• Czar Nicholas II Abdicated, or gave up the
  throne. (within 1 week)
• Set up provisional government to introduce reforms

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Where else have we seen a provisional government
take over?

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Continued

• Socialists set up organizations in protest of
  provisional government. They formed
• Soviets- a council made up of workers, soldiers,
  and peasants.

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Bolshevik Revolution

• A.K.A. Socialist Revolution
• Socialism- A system in which the government owns
  and operates major businesses and controls other
  parts of the economy.
• Bolshevik party organized soviets

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Bolshevik Revolution continued

• Leader-Lenin Land, Peace, Bread became his
  motto
• Provisional government wanted Lenin arrested.
• Lenin captured government buildings and arrested
  members of provisional government

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• Lenin decided 2 things
• 1 Peasants could keep land they seized after
  March Revolution
• 2 Seek immediate peace with Germany

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End of WWI for Russia

• March 1918 Russia and Germany signed the Treaty
  of Brest-Litovsk

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Lenin

• Marxist ideas- wanted a working class to rise up
  in a revolution.
• Set out to create a Bolshevik dictatorship
• Plot- destroy all political parties in Russia.

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Civil War 1919 to 1921

• Problem- What kind of rule should we have?
• Communists (Bolsheviks) were most organized
  against many split regimes
• Leon Trotsky- set up and trained Communist army
  or the Red Army
• OppositionWhite Army, not very effective
• So what happened?

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Result

• Communists won control of Russian Empire--
  Renamed Union of Soviet Socialists Republics or
  USSR.
• USSR Soviet Union

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New Economic Policy NEP

• Created by Lenin
• Stopped taking grain from peasants- allowed them
  to sell it.
• Government controlled heavy industry but allowed
  some private businesses to operate.
• 1924- Lenin dies Joseph Stalin takes
  overUltimate Goal Total Communism

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To Sum Things Up

• All one in the same-