Russian revolution

The Russian Revolution.

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  • The people's rebellion

    The people's rebellion
    In 1905 Russia ́s defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion. Rebellion broke out,
    after troops fired on striking workers in the capital, St. Petersburg.

  • Start of WWI.

    Start of WWI.
    Germany declared war on the Russian Empire on August 1, 1914. It is estimated that some two million Russian soldiers died in combat, while the total losses were around 3.5 million.

  • The end of the Tsar dynasty. The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.

    The end of the Tsar dynasty. The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.
    In March 1917, February in the old Julian calendar, the spontaneous protests of the population of Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg), the new name of the city of Saint Petersburg, led to a revolutionary insurrection. In a very few days the tsarist autocracy collapsed.

  • The April crisis. The return of Lenin with the April theses.

    The April crisis. The return of Lenin with the April theses.
    The April Theses are a series of concepts that were exposed by the Russian Bolshevik leader Lenin, in a speech delivered at the Taurid Palace on April 4, 1917, after his return the day before to the then still Russian capital of Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland. This thesis postulated the passage to the second phase of the revolution: the conquest of power by the proletariat and the peasantry of the Soviets.

  • The second phase of the revolution. The revolution of 1917.

    The second phase of the revolution. The revolution of 1917.
    On October 25, 1917, the maximum leader of the Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, led the uprising in Petrograd, the then capital of Russia, against the provisional government of Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky.

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The civil war.

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The civil war.
    Bolsheviks moved the capital to Moscow and made peace with Germany: Treaty of Brest–Litovsk (1918). In 1918 civil war broke out between the Bolshevik Red Army (led by Trotsky) and
    anti – communist White Russians. This ended in victory for the Bolsheviks (1921). The Bolsheviks expected communist revolutions to break out all over Europe but, except for a small one in Germany, they did not. However, communist parties did exist in other countries.

  • Introduction of the NEP.

    Introduction of the NEP.
    In 1921 Lenin introduced a New Economic Policy to restore order and increase prosperity after the chaos of Revolution, Civil War, and War Communism.
    • Peasants could sell surplus food produce and pay tax on profits.
    • It allowed small non-state-owned businesses (such as shops ...) and they could
    make a profit.
    • Vital industries (coal, iron, railways ...) stayed in state hands.

  • The creation of the USSR.

    The creation of the USSR.
    In the territory of the former Russian Empire, the Russian Soviet Republic (RSFSR) arose, together with the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, the Belarusian Soviet Republic and the Transcaucasus Federal Democratic Republic, which finally in 1922 united and formed the Union of Socialist Republics Soviet or simply USSR.