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Russian Revolution
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Czar Alexander III
Anti semetic In Russia was in association with him which caused jews to riot
The nobility over working class
Autocracy,orthodoxy, national homeogenity
Made the working class and peasants feel opressed while nobility felt powerful
Significance: set stage for russian people being upset with Czar Nicholas II -
Czar Nicholas II
Believed that absolute power should stay in the monarchy and disagreed with democratic views
the agricultural country struggled to industrialize and he ignored the problems
WW1 made him blamed for all the military failures because he didn't listen to others
March 1917 street demonstrations broke out and he realized how severe the situation was and he abdicated the throne
Significance: he was disliked because he wanted to rule the Russian monarchy and ignored Russia's problem -
Russo-Japanese war
Disagreement over territory in Northern China
Japan had advantages in having more ground troops and superior naval forces
Citizens of Russia thought government was inefficient which caused a strike
contributes to Czar Nicholas II bad reputation
Significance:This led to the Russian Revolution when people blamed the Czar wanted to change Russia's government into a constitutional monarchy -
Duma
Legislature created after bloody sunday when Czar realized he needed help fixing the country.
Significance: Czar was known to support absolute rule -
Bloody Sunday
workers marched on the Czars winter palace demanding better living and working conditions
police fired on crowd killing 100,injuring 3,000
After Bloody sunday, there was more internal strife and disorder
Czar Nicholas instituted The Duma and turned Russia into a constitutional monarchy
Significance:The Russian people had an uprising and had a lessened belief in government. -
Russia's participation in WW1
They had a huge army of over a million but were unlucky by having millions of fatalities during the time of war
These were blamed on Czar nicholas seeing he had multiple military failures and wouldn't take advice
This was also the blame for leaving the government to Alexandra and Rasputin.
Significance: This was apart of the start of the revolution -
Death of Rasputin
The Czar and Alexandra were dependent of this creepy man because they believed he would cure their only son Alexi
He assumed power in Russia during WW1
Assasinated by nobility in 1916
Gave Alexandra a letter predicted that if he was killed by her family they would die within two years
Significance :That later comes true and they are killed in the revolution by the cheka -
Abdication of Czar Nicholas II
After failure in WW1 Czar was blamed and had a lot of pressure
After street demonstrations broke out he had realized how serious the situation was
On march 15 he stepped down which created the Provisional government
Significance: the temporary government will fail and cause many problems in Russia during the revolution -
Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolsheviks were a group of communists that weren't happy with the Provisional government's choices
They decided to overthrow the government
They wanted to change by redistribute farmland to peasants, turn factories over to workers
They ended involvement in WW1
This made other sides of russia unhappy that support absolute rule so they went to war.
Significance: creates civil war -
Russian civil war
Conflict between the Red army (communists) led by Vladmir and the White army
White army was given help from the foreign like GB, France and the US
Red army won because they had more control over larger areas and many were pushed to siberia
Cheka created to eliminate any threats to the red army
Significance: the red army caused Russia much stress because many were killed by the Cheka -
Establishment of the USSR(Soviet Union)
Union of Soviet Republics or Soviet Union
self governing republics, discourage nationalism
Communist party holds up all power, not true communist still has government
significance: they don't want another war after all the tragedys and stress on Russia -
Stalin's rise to power
Manipulates his way into power despite Lenin's concerns
by 1928 Stalins in total command
Significance: Stalin will later become the dictator of Soviet union -
Lenin's death
Lenin died in 1924
This causes competition between who will become the leader
Leon trotsky, red army commander, was who Lenin wanted to take over
Joseph Stalin, man of steel, was also in the competition as he was rising
Significance: Joseph stalin would become higher power -
Leon Trotsky's exile
Stalin had trotsky exiled Leon trotsky in 1929
He saw him as a threat after he'd already taken total control of the communist party
He got exiled to Mexico but Stalin still doesn't feel safe and has someone kill him with a axe in the back of his head
Significance: Stalin had become a well known name and powerful impact on Russia which will show when WW2 comes around
