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1904/1905 Russo-Japanese War
War between Russia and Japan
Location of battle: Manchuria, Yellow Sea, Korean Peninsula, and sea between Korea and Japan
Russia advanced down South, expanding control in China, Manchuria and eventually to Korea. Setting up trading post and naval base in Port Arthur.
Japan, at the time, was expanding its control in Asia, and saw Russia's expansion as threat and intervension in Asia.
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Bloody Sunday
Unarmed workers/demonstrators marched to the Winter Palace, presenting their petition to Tsar Nicholas II.
The demonstrators were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Gurad. -
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Russia on Strike
All of Russia is on strike.
First Soviet(council) formed in St. Peterburg. -
October Manifesto
Some civil liberties provided.
Creation of Duma. -
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World War I
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Feb/March Revolution
20,000 Steelworkers on strike -
Feb/March Revolution
Women take to streets to demonstrate. -
Feb/March Revolution
Half of Petrograd(St.Petersburgh) on strike. -
Feb/March Revolution
Soldiers fire upon crowds of demonstraters and strikers. -
Feb/March Revolution
Tsar closes the Duma. -
Feb/March Revolution
Soldiers mutiny and establish the Petrograd Soviet with wokers and sailors. -
Feb/March Revolution
Tsar returns to Petrograd -
Feb/March Revolution
Tsar loses support of the army after disasterous defeats in WWI battlefields. -
Feb/March Revolution
Tsar abdicates. -
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Provisional Government
- Established after the abdication of the Tsar
- The Provisional Government was made up of members from the Duma
- Promised Constituent Assembly with universal sevret ballot and to legalize strikes.
- Power stuggle in the government, between liberals and Marxists Problems:
- Did not recognize itself as government, not elected
- Continued the war effort
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Provisional Government in Russia
Founded in March 15, 1017
Dissolved in July 10117 -
April Theses
Lenin returns from hiding, with help from the German army.
He is disturbed by the complacency of the revoutionaries who were not willing to push the revolution any further.
He called for:
a) The proletariat and peasants to bring about the communist revolution.
b) Immediate peace with Germany, end the war.
c) Seizure of the gentry land.
d) All power to the Soviets.
e) Seizure of factories.
Slogan: 'Peace, Bread, and Land' -
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July Putsch
Bolsheviks and radicals and workers demonstrate
Fail, many Bolshevik leaders arrested.
Lenin flees. -
Kornilov Affair
General Kornilov's attempted coop to overthrow the Provisional Government, and to impliment military control.
Kerensky, leader of socialists and PM, calls the Red Guard(Bolshevik) to stop the take over.
Bolsheviks gain more favor from people, the Provisional Government seemed incapable to run the country. -
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The Oct/Nov Revolution
Bolshevik take over of the Provisional Government
- No resistence
Petrograd falls under the Soviets: Oct 13
Moscow falls under the Soviets: Oct 23 -
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Russian Civil War
War betwwen Reds(Soviets) and Whites(everyone else in Russia).
Whites
- Tsarist Army Officers
- Cossacks
- Bourgeoisie
- Outlawed political groups
Also the Allied nations intervened in the Civil War, supporitng the Whites.(1918)
Tsar Nicholas II was assassinated/executed during this time, to lower the morale of the Whites.
At the end the Reds won the war, Russia was now under full control of the Soviets/Bolsheviks. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Peace Treaty
The new Bolshevik government signed peace treaty with the Central Powers to end the war on Russian soil and the Eastern front.
- Russia withdraws from the war
- Bolsheviks maintain control over Russia (promise of Peace proven) -
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War Communism
Started when the Civil War broke out in Russia.
Key features of War Communism:
a) The nationalization of industry
- The state appropriated the mining, metallurgical, textile, electrical, timber, tobacco, resin, glass and pottery, leather and cement industries, all steam-driven mills, local utilities and private railways together with a few minor industries.
b) Compulsory labour was introduced.
c) Private trade was suppressed
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Leaague of Nations
International organization which is set up to resolve conflicts between countries.
Set up after WWI, in Geneva. Originally Germany and Russia weren't allowed to join, later on they were allowed.
LoN was successful in some interentions, but mostly ineffective since the set up of the organization failed.(veto) Also USA didnot join the league.
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New Economic Policy
Premitted private trade.
Peasants were allowed to sell surplus.
Workers in small factories, under 25 employees, were allowed to purchase their factory under a co-operative arrangement and thereby return it to a form of private ownership.
The New Economic Policy was set by Lenin, after the devastating effect of War Communism on Russian people. It was to compensate for the W.C. and to replace decree on food with higer tax.
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Treaty of Rapallo
Agreement between Germany and Russia.
- Renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and WWI.
- Germany gave material and support for Russia's heavy industiralization
- in return Germany was allowed to build war machines within Russia (Germany was not allowed to build any war machine in their country), in the end, Germany has built enough war machines and weapons for WWII and Russia was able to industrialize quickly. -
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First Five Year Plan
A) Command Echonomy
- elimination of free market.
-Production, distribution and consumption are controlled by the centralized state.
B) Collectivization
- Forcing peasants to give up their own land and become workers on the collective farms.
C) Havey Industry
- Stalin wanted to force the development heavy of industry in order to allow the USSR to build necessary infrastructure.
Results:
- Radically improved production
- became 4 year plan.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact/Pact of Paris
International agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.
Signed by:
- Germany, France, and the US.
Peaceful settlement of disputes without provoking war between countries. -
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Second Five Year Plan
The Second Five-Year Plan gave heavy industry top priority, putting the Soviet Union not far behind Germany as one of the major steel-producing countries of the world. Further improvements were made in communications, especially railways, which became faster and more reliable. As was the case with the other five-year plans, the second was not as successful, failing to reach the recommended production levels in such areas as the coal and oil industries. The second plan employed incentives as well -
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The Purges
Large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials.
- Killed most of the army's top generals
- Wiped out high ranking officers in military.
- killed all the officials involved in Civil War and the revolution, Stalin saw them as threat to his current position.
Russia's Red Army was weakened without its senior officers. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact/Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Treay of non-aggression between Germany and USSR.
Guarantee of non-belligerence by either party towards the other, and a commitement that neither party would ally with or aid an enemy of the other party.
- This gave time for USSR to build up its army to protect itself from the Nazi Germany.
- The pact was broken when Germany invaded Russia in 1941
