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Pre-Revolutionary Russia
No type of representative political institutions -
Vladimir Lenin
Committed to Class Struggle and Revolution -
The Revolution of 1905
Vast majority of workers concentrated in St. Petersburg and Moscow -
World War I
Chaos and Disintegration of the Russian Army -
The Collapse of the Imperial Government
Alexandra and Rasputin throw the government into chaos -
The Collapse of the Imperial Government
Complete mismanagement of the wartime economy -
The Two Revolutions
was a revolution focused around Petrograd -
czar nicholas 2
gave up his power -
Conservatism Continues:1905-1917
Nicholas was personally a very weak man; he became increasingly remote as a ruler -
Alexandra The Power Behind the Throne
Even more blindly committed to autocracy than her husband -
The Two Revolutions
Following the March Revolution, in November 1917 Russia got the world's first communist government. Lead by Lenin, communists -
communist party
officially renamed the Communist Party in March 1918 -
Signed peace treaty
Signed peace treaty with Germany in March 1918 -
Communists vs. their political opponents
Political opponents = Royalists, Liberal Democrats, Moderate -
The Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and after 1922 -
Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist -
Joseph Stalin
General Secretary of the Communist Party -
Leon Trotsky
leader of the Red Army during the Civil War -
Joseph Stalin
Ruled the Soviet Union from 1929 – 1953
Responsible for the next major extension of communist control -
Trotsky vs. Stalin
Once he gained control of the government, he exiled Trotsky to Siberia in 1929
