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The Russian Revolution
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Reign of Czar Alexander III
-Pogrom where there was organized violence against Jews
-The nobility were promoted
Czar Alexander III promoted the use of Russian language and culture -
Reign of Czar Nicholas II
(1894-1917)
-He wanted to rule the Russians and they did not like this and they revolted. led the Russian monarchy
-Czar ignored the struggling economy and agriculture
-He came up with an elected legislature which changed the government to a constitutional monarchy.
-He was blamed for the outcome of WWI -
Russo-Japanese War
-Started over competition for territories in Northern China
-Japan was more industrialized and had a better Navy
-Czar Nicholas II was blamed for the loss -
Establishment of the Duma
-1905
-Follows Russo-Japanese war and Bloody Sunday,
-It was done to improve the Czars reputations -
Bloody Sunday
-200,000 workers marched onto Czar's winter palace to present him with a list of complaints
-The police open-fired killing 100 and injuring 3,000
-Czar was blamed again and there was an uprising across the country that lessened beliefs about government -
Russia's participation in WWI
-1914-1918
-Czar was on the battlefield so he was blamed for the failure of WWI -
Death of Rasputin
-Rasputin convinced the Czars wife to replace ministers with incompetent friends of Rasputin.
-Nobles were angry
-He died by drowning after many other attempts to murder him -
Abdication of Czar Nicholas II
-A secret newspaper supporting Lenin's Communist Party was ent all over Russia.,
-Czar stepped down and a Provisional government was established.
-The Provisional government was disliked because it refused to end Russia's involvement in WW1
-It gets overthrown-Bolshevik Revolution -
Bolshevik Revolution(1917-1920)
-Lenin creates the Cheka- Secret police that targeted enemies of the Bolsheviks.
-Many people died.
-Farmland was redistributed to peasant and factories were turned over to workers.
-Ended involvement in WW1 -
Civil War(1918-1920)
-Foreign countries involved in war.
-The Red Army lead by Leon Trotsky against the White Army.
-Red Army won.
-3 million people died and Russia had a loss of food. -
Leon Trotsky's exile(1921)
-Stalin has Trotsky exiled in 1929.
-Stalin was still afraid that Trotsky could come back in the future and gain power.
-Trotsky was killed and Stalin was supposedly behind it.
-Stalin later becomes leader of the Soviet Union. -
Stalin's rise to power(1922-1927)
-When Lenin was alive, he did not like Stalin's motives.
-He manipulates his way into power using propaganda against Trotsky.
-By 1928, he was in full command of the Communist Party.
-Stalin will later become dictator of the Soviet Union. -
Establishment of the USSR(1922)
-Self-governing republics discourage nationalism.
-The Communist Party holds all the power but this is not true communism.
-The Soviet Union will exist until 1991 -
Lenin's death(1924)
-He dies of a stroke in 1924.
-It sets up the stage for his replacement.
-Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were the two people most qualified.
