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The Russian Revolution
Readings
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Smith, et al., 902-904, 932-934
Slide2Peter Builds New Capital
Slide3Slide4Slide5Nicholas I (1825-1855)
Hated Industrial Revolution and French Revolution
Wanted to make world safe for autocracy
Fought against progress in Russia and Europe
Slide6Decembrists
Revolt against czarismPut downRevolutions of 1848Most of Europe but Russia has some form of democracyEconomy remains backward
Slide7Alexander II (1855-1881)
Son of Nicholas I.
One of better czars – interested in reform
Emancipated the serfs in 1861
Slide8Slide9Slide10Alexander III (1881-1894)
Increased the repressive powers of the police
Limited the power of the local assemblies
Pograms against anyone who was not Russian
Slide11Nicholas II (1894-1917)
Wrong man, wrong time
Little interest in government
Slide12Imperialistic Conflict over Korea and Manchuria
Russia trying to ward off rebellion
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Slide13Slide14Slide15Slide16Bloody Sunday-January 22, 1905
Began in St Petersburg
Disaster of Russo-Japanese War revealed corruption and incompetence of czar
Created Duma, limited economic reform
Slide17World War I/ Rasputin
Had control over the Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarina
Was murdered in December 1916
World War I was a disaster.
Slide18The Revolutions of 1917
February Revolution (March 8, 1917)
Czar Nicholas Abdicates
Slide19Kerensky forms Provisional Government
Slide20Lenin Arrives at Finland Station
Slide21Slide22Lenin arrives in Petrograd (St. Petersburg)—April 16. 1917
Lenin calls for armed insurrection
—Oct. 16, 1917 (Russian Calendar)
October Revolution begins, October 24, 1917 (Russian Calendar)
November 6, 1917 (Western European Calendar)
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
How Do Bolsheviks Get Power?
Slide23Slide24Slide25Treaty of Brest Litovsk—
March 3, 1918
Lost 32% of the land
Lost Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Much of the Ukraine
Much of Belarussia
Slide26Creation of Soviet UnionCivil War, 1918-1921“Reds” vs “Whites”“Reds” (Bolsheviks, Communists) under Lenin win
Supported by peasants, national/ethnic groupsNew Economic PlanNationalization of banks and heavy industry, limited ownership of small businessesLenin dies 1923
Slide27Power Struggle after Lenin’s Death and Stalin’s Rule
Forced collectivization
“The Great Famine”
“The Great Terror”
Purges
Gulag
Slide28Slide29Slide30Slide31Slide32Slide33Slide34Slide35Slide36Contemporary Problems
Cold War with US from 1945-1991
Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost allowed
Democracy to Emerge
Perestroika—socialism not possible in capitalist world
Resigns December 25, 1991
End of Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War
Slide37Boris Yeltsin
Problems:
Economy was a mess
Workers not paid
National Debt
IMF and World Bank Money to Cronies
Politics a Mess
Slide38Today in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
A weak Boris Yeltsin names Vladimir Putin, former KGB agent, Premier then President
New President Dmitri Medvedev, but Putin still makes many decisions
Slide39Today’s Russia (continued)
Ethnic groups want autonomy or Independence
Putin has destroyed Chechnya
Reports of rapes and pillage
Nationalists want powerful Soviet Union
Questions still needing answers
Slide40Slide41Winners
Communist Party
Some Workers
Massive Literacy Project—all those who learn to read and write
Vastly improved health care—all those who lived longer and healthier
Women
Losers
Poorest peasants
Traditional Russian upper classes
Many of those in traditional Russian middle classes
Those killed or imprisoned because of oppressive regime
Jews, Muslims
Other ethnic minorities (maybe)
Russian Economy
Russian Democracy
Russian Revolution: Who Won, Who Lost?
The Russian Revolution Readings
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