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The Russian Revolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - wealthy owners minority
      - worked by peasant majority
    - - industrialisation began
        
        formation of
        
        a small bourgeoisie of business owners and a proletariat
  - - - high taxes
      - poverty
      - hard working conditions
      - low wages
      - long working days
  - - - had unlimited power
        
        civil rights
        
        weren't recognised
        
        political parties
        
        repressed
        
        memebers of them
        
        secret meetings
        
        emigrate
- - - - lack of rights
      - miserable living conditions for most Russians
  - - - industrial workers in St Petersburg made a pacefull movement
        
        on the Winter Palace
        
        asking for
        
        political reform
        
        industrial workers in St Petersburg
        
        they were brutally suppressed
        
        Bloody Sunday
        
        respond to the suppression
        
        strikes and protests
        
        The Social Democratic Workers' Party
        
        secret meetings
        
        in respond to the strikes
        
        Tsar Nicholas II
        
        authorised the formation of a Duma (parliament)
        
        power to make laws
        
        soon dissolved
        
        elected by all the classes
  - - - to pay for the conflict
    - - continually recruited
    - - some of the causes
        
        outdated military equipment
        
        lack of transport
        
        badly organised army
      - led to
        
        increased public hostility towards the tsar
  - - - Russian Empire
        
        took part in the First World War
        
        didn't have enough food or weapons
        
        15 million soldiers were mobilised
        
        discontent among the people
        
        allied with Great Britain and France
- - - - protested about
        
        shortage of food
        
        disasters of the war
    - - a provisional government was formed
        
        made up of
        
        liberals and Menshevik socialists
        
        led by
        
        Alexander Kerensky
        
        proclaimed Russia a republic
        
        set up a democratic regime
        
        legalised political parties
        
        elections
        
        universal male suffrage
        
        finally failed
        
        didn't keep their promise
    - - parallel government
        
        led by the Petrograd Soviet
        
        immediate withdrawal of Russia from the war
    - - April theses
        
        gain support
      - led by Lenin
  - - - expropriate land and redistribute it among the peasants
      - Communist Party
        
        only legal party
      - sign Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany
        
        Russia withdraw from the war
      - found the Third International
        
        coordinate all the communist parties
    - - civil war (1918–1921)
        
        between
        
        Bolshevik
        
        Red Army
        
        counter-revolutionaries
        
        White Army
        
        supported by the Allied powers
        
        defeated
    - - attacked the Winter Palace in Petrograd
      - established a new proletarian government
        
        Council of People's Commissars
      - Lenin
        
        Russia's leader
      - after Lenin's death
        
        Stalin succeeded him
      - led by
        
        Lenin
        
        Trotsky
- - - - some capitalist systems existed to increase production
      - Peasants sell their produce
      - artisan and trading companies
  - - - main republic
        
        Russia
      - small republics
        
        Belorussia
        
        Ukraine
      - resolved the problems of former nationalities
        
        respected their autonomy
  - - - characteristics
        
        The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
        
        only political party
        
        represented the interests of the workers
        
        political power
        
        Soviests