Russian Revolutions

​Seeing Red

• Determine the causes and results of the Russian Revolution from the rise of the Bolsheviks under Lenin to Stalin’s first Five Year Plan.

​Learning Target

• Is Russia industrialized?

• Which two wars did Russia recently lose (1905 and 1917)

• Do you remember which three things Russians wanted while in one of those wars?

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​Let's Review

• Nicholas II - last czar of Russia

  • Alexei - hemophilia

  • Rasputin - peasant priest

    • speak with Mary

    • heal the sick

    • womanizer and drunk

• Russo-Japanese War and WWI

  • humiliated

  • food shortages

  • lack of industrialization

​Problems at Home

• Rebellions spread across Russia

• Culminated in the February Revolution of 1917

  • Czar forced to abdicate

  • Provisional Government

    • tried to industrialize

    • continued to fight WWI

• Peace, Land, Bread

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February Revolution

• aka October Revolution of 1917

  • Vladimir Lenin led communist Bolshevik part to overthrow gov.

  • withdrew from WWI in 1918

• Russian Civil War (1917-1920)

  • Reds - communist Bolsheviks

  • Whites - czarist republicans

  • Nicholas II and family executed

  • Red win, creates USSR

Bolshevik Revolution

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• Communist

  • could not follow Marx

    • farm not industrial

  • slowed transition in 1921 with NEP (New Economic Policy)

• Lenin died in 1924

• Political fight between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin

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The USSR

• rejected the NEP, went for RAPID transition to industrialize

  • HIS version of communism

• First Five Year Plan

  • factories built

  • transportation networks

  • collectivization of agriculture

• Problems

  • food shortages in Ukraine

  • 1932-1933 - 4 million died of starvation in the Great Famine

Stalin's 5-Year Plan

• Stalin created a cult of personality

• Secret police

  • political opponents

  • dissenters

  • counter-revolutionaries

• 1936-1938

  • 1 million executed

  • Millions exiled to Siberia

• Totalitarian Communist State

• Industrial Global Power

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Propaganda