Impact of the February Revolution Learning Outcomes By the end of this lesson you will be able to Describe the February Revolution ED Explain the provisional government CB Judge how far it was reforming AA ID: 756671
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LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this lesson you will be able to…
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*Slide2
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LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-DExplain the provisional government C-BJudge how far it was reforming A-A*
Nicholas
Zemstvo
Autocracy
Alexander
Witte
Nicholas
Pobedonetsev
Duma
Orthodoxy
Vyshnegradsky
Mir
Nationality
Alexander
Russification
Duma
Stolypin
Can you
Find the
Connections?Slide3
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
Mir
Zemstvo
Duma
Duma
Nicholas
Alexander
Alexander
NicholasVyshnegradsky
Pobedenetsov
Witte
Stolypin
Orthodoxy
Nationality
Autocracy
Russification
Lets solveThe wall!Slide4
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
1905
January
– Bloody Sunday,
Police and army open fire
On crowd led by Father Gapon,
Travelling to Winter Palace to
Petition the Tsar.
October
– Wave of strikes
Only ended after Tsar
Promises a written constitution,The “October Manifesto”.Slide5
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
1911-14
- A growing number of strikes and
Worker unrest.
- Many unhappy that government
Has gone back on plans for a Duma
In 1906.
- However war breaks out, with the
Tsar appealing for unity against
Germany.Slide6
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
Feb. 1917
Anti-war demonstrations are
Sweeping Petrograd. Troops
Are ordered to open fire,
However they mutiny instead.
As revolutions spread, the
Tsar abdicates and his brother
Michael's accession is deferred.
A Provisional Government is
Set up led by MilyukovSlide7
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
July 1917
The July Days, workers in
Petrograd demand more power
to the Soviets.
Trotsky is arrested and Lenin
Goes into hiding.
A new government is set up
Under Alexander Kerensky.Slide8
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
Oct. 1917
Bolsheviks win control of
The Petrograd Soviet.
Peasant seizures of land
Grow in the countryside. Many
Gentry leaving the areas.
Provisional Government
Overthrown leading to the
Outbreak of civil war.Slide9Slide10
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
Provisional government
F
irst controlled by liberal parties (Cadets and
O
ctobrists
) but later by Social revolutionaries and Mensheviks under the leadership of Kerensky.
Saw itself as a caretaker government and did not propose any dramatic changes
Showed strength during the
J
uly days but discredited after the
Kornilov
affair
Petrograd soviet
A
ssembly of workers and soldiers under influence of SR and Mensheviks in the beginning but later Bolsheviks take control.
Lenin’s April thesis gathers support to the Bolsheviks and Lenin sets the course on a second revolution.
The
Kornilov
affair convinces Lenin that Bolsheviks should try to seize powerSlide11
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
Alexander Kerensky1881-1970A “Democratic Windbag”?
GovernmentMar-Nov 1917 “Dual
Government”Had to share power withPetrograd Soviet
- Abolished the Okhrana.Tried to continue the War.
Set up death squads to Hunt and kill deserters.Faced
Kornilov coup Aug 1917.
Unelected and membersDated from 1912.Political Prisoners (Trotsky)
Released.Kept promising a constituentAssembly.
Recognises Poland’s right toIndependence. Finland and Ukraine.
Capital punishment abolished.Kerensky offensive June
1917 a failure.- July Days finish the Bolsheviks…?
Society
Shortages of food and fuelIn Petrograd. Newspapers, books and
Pamphlets back in circulation.8 point programme restored
Freedoms including right toStrike and civil/religious freedoms.Bolsheviks calling for “Peace,
Land and Bread”- Recognition of Trade Unions.
EconomyPeasants start to seize land from nobles.
Over 1000 illegal attacks on land in July 1917
Inflation shot up with wages unable to keep
Pace.
Government granted an 8 hour day in an attempt
To restore discipline.Slide12
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*
Bronze: Create your own timeline of the events of 1917 using the information On the power point and sheet.Silver: Answer the questions on the provisional government and its strengths and weaknesses using the sheet provided.
Gold: Can the Provisional Government be held responsible
For its own downfall?Slide13
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*Slide14
LO: To explore the events and Impact of the February Revolution
Describe the February Revolution E-D
Explain the provisional government C-B
Judge how far it was reforming A-A*