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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
Autocratic government
tsar had unlimited power
no rights
no political parties
Semi feudal economy
Peasants worked land
Wealthy owned land
Proletariat became organised
Social unrest
most of the population were peasants
they paid high taxes
CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
CAUSES
Russo-Japanese War
New taxes
Soldiers being recruited
Russian defeat
Appearance of the political parties
opposed the tsar
Parties
Constitutional democratic
Socialist workers
Mensheviks
Bolsheviks
Socialist revolutionary
1905 Revolution
Industrial workers
Asked improvements in working conditions
Bloody Sunday
Participation in WWI
15 million soldiers were mobilised
continuous defeats
CREATION OF THE USSR
(1922)
Political organisation
proletariat dictatorship
political power held by soviets
Only party Communist Party
Marxist ideas
Constitution of 1924
Economy
New Economic Policy
Shortage of food due to civil war
Territorial organisation
Federal state
Respected autonomy and self-determination
THE 1917 REVOLUTIONS
February Revolution
(Provisional government)
1-Successful workers revolution
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated
Provisional government was created
(Alexander Kerensky)
2-Russia became a republic
democratic regime
A parallel government was created
(Petrograd Soviet)
3-April theses
(Lenin)
Bolsheviks
A programme which met everyones demands
October Revolution
(Bolshevik government)
1-Lenin made a coup
Council of People's Commissars was established
Changes
Treaty of Brest-litovsk
Redistribute land
Bolshevik party-->Communist Party
Third International foundation
2-Civil War
(1918-1921)
Between counterrevolutionaries (White army) and Bolshevik (Red Army)
Bolshevik won
White Army was supported by European powers
