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Russian Revolution
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Reign of Czar Alexander III (1881-1894)
- had total power
- no religious tolerance
- free speech not allowed
- Stops what his father had been doing to reform Russia
- Created autocracy (one man rule)
- Supported pogram - targeting and hurting Jewish people
- Wants Russia to be one race (not racial/religious majority)
- Caused unhappiness among his subjects, later helping leads uprisings
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Reign of Czar Alexander III (1881-1894)
- had total power
- no religious tolerance
- free speech not allowed
- Stops what his father had been doing to reform Russia
- Created autocracy (one man rule)
- Supported pogram - targeting and hurting Jewish people
- Wants Russia to be one race (not racial/religious majority)
- Caused unhappiness among his subjects, later helping leads uprisings
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Reign of Czar Nicholas II (1894 - 1917)
- Continued doing what rulers had done before him
- Ruled harshly like Alexander
- This made him ignorant to his subjects
- Was also ignorant to the changing ways of the world *Never really fixed what Czar Alexander started, leading to the revolt that placed him off the throne.
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Reign of Czar Nicholas II (1894 - 1917)
- Continued doing what rulers had done before him
- Ruled harshly like Alexander
- This made him ignorant to his subjects
- Was also ignorant to the changing ways of the world *Never really fixed what Czar Alexander started, leading to the revolt that placed him off the throne.
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Russo - Japanese War (1904 - 1905)
- Russia broke treaty with Japan over areas of Korea and Manchuria
- Japan retaliated by declaring war on Russia
- Russia lost many battles
- Spurred uprising at home when people heard of this *Japan winning is proof of weakness to Russian people (embarrassing)
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Russo - Japanese War (1904 - 1905)
- Russia broke treaty with Japan over areas of Korea and Manchuria
- Japan retaliated by declaring war on Russia
- Russia lost many battles
- Spurred uprising at home when people heard of this *Japan winning is proof of weakness to Russian people (embarrassing)
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Bloody Sunday (January 9, 1905)
- Around 200,000 workers and their families went to protest at the czar's Winter Palace
- Nicholas's II's generals ordered soldiers to fire on crowd
- More then 1,000 wounded or killed
- Russians quickly named event "Bloody Sunday"
- Provoked a wave of strikes and violence across the country *Basically started offset that led to revolution
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Bloody Sunday (January 9, 1905)
- Around 200,000 workers and their families went to protest at the czar's Winter Palace
- Nicholas's II's generals ordered soldiers to fire on crowd
- More then 1,000 wounded or killed
- Russians quickly named event "Bloody Sunday"
- Provoked a wave of strikes and violence across the country *Basically started offset that led to revolution
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Establishment of the Duma (October 30 1905)
- Czar Nicholas created the Duma in result to the uprisings
- It was Russia's first Parliament
- Shares Czar Nicholas's power
- Does this to please his people or they are going to revolt *Thinks he can go on ruling as he did, only made it to satisfy his people
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Russia's Participation in World War One
- Czar Nicholas brings Russia into war
- He didn't want to rule, but he wanted to to lead the military during the war
- He was on the front lines during the war
- Russia gets out of the war in 1917 *The people again blame the Czar for Russia doing bad in the war, leads to more uprisings
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Russia's Participation in World War One
- Czar Nicholas brings Russia into war
- He didn't want to rule, but he wanted to to lead the military during the war
- He was on the front lines during the war
- Russia gets out of the war in 1917 *The people again blame the Czar for Russia doing bad in the war, leads to more uprisings
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Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin, a radical thinker, returns to Russia after abdication of the Czar knowing he is no longer not safe in Russia
He wants a Marxist Revolution
Soviets become supportive of Marxist Revolution
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Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin, a radical thinker, returns to Russia after abdication of the Czar knowing he is no longer not safe in Russia
He wants a Marxist Revolution
Soviets become supportive of Marxist Revolution
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Abdication of Czar Nicholas /est. of Provisional Government
Russian people blamed Czar for bad result from World War 1
Czar steps down
People create the Provisional Government
People didn’t like Provisional Government because it was in favor of staying in the war
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Abdication of Czar Nicholas /est. of Provisional Government
Russian people blamed Czar for bad result from World War 1
Czar steps down
People create the Provisional Government
People didn’t like Provisional Government because it was in favor of staying in the war
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Russian Civil War
- Conservatives and Czechs not happy with communist ideas, want absolute monarchy
- Go to war against Lenin's "red army"
- White army (conservatives) receive support from Allies from World War 1 because the capitalist countries believe communism is a threat
- Germany is defeated and the Red Army turns full attention towards White Army
- White Army (partially) surrounds Red Army in Industrialized areas of Russia
- Red Army takes this as an advantage and ends up winning against the White Army
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Russian Civil War
- Conservatives and Czechs not happy with communist ideas, want absolute monarchy
- Go to war against Lenin's "red army"
- White army (conservatives) receive support from Allies from World War 1 because the capitalist countries believe communism is a threat
- Germany is defeated and the Red Army turns full attention towards White Army
- White Army (partially) surrounds Red Army in Industrialized areas of Russia
- Red Army takes this as an advantage and ends up winning against the White Army
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Establishment of USSR
- Communists wanted more then Russia to adopt Communism
- Lenin also did not want nationalists and instead those in favor of communism
- As a result Russia was split into specific zones and became known as the USSR.
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Establishment of USSR
- Communists wanted more then Russia to adopt Communism
- Lenin also did not want nationalists and instead those in favor of communism
- As a result Russia was split into specific zones and became known as the USSR.
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Stalin's Rise to Power
- Trotsky and Stalin both wanted control over U.S.S.R.
- Kenin would have favored Trotsky
- Joseph Stalin wasn't his real name but he changed it (means man of steel)
- Stalin ended up making propaganda against Trotsky to help him win power
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Lenin's Death
- Lenin suffered from one (maybe more) strokes
- This led to his death
- His body was embalmed and is in the Red Square in Russia
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Leon Trotsky's Exile
- Stalin didn't want Trotsky to be a threat to him
- Exiled him to Mexico
- Was later assassinated
- Believed the person who killed him had ties to Stalin
