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The Russian Revolution, image, image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Agricultural land was owned by a wealthy minority and worked by a peasant majority
    - - Three-quarters of the population were peasants who lived in poverty and paid high taxes
    - - The tsar had unlimited power and authority
- - - - The tsar's residence, to ask for improvements in working conditions and political reform
- - - - Made up of liberals and Menshevik socialists led by the socialist Alexander Kerensky
    - - Which demanded the immediate withdrawal of Russia from the war
    - - A political programme in which the demands of the workers, soldiers and peasants were met and the soviets were recognised as the supreme power
  - - - Attacked the Winter Palace in Petrograd, the seat of the Provisional Government
    - - To sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, which allowed Russia to withdraw from the war
      - To expropriate land and redistribute it among the peasants and give the control of industries to the workers' committees
      - To change the name of the Bolshevik party to the Communist Party and make it the only legal political party
      - To found the Third International (also called the Comintern) to coordinate all the communist parties around the world
- - - - Political power was held by the soviets
        
        Which had the power to make laws and to choose the people who held executive power
      - The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the only political party, and it represented the interests of the workers
  - - - He established the New Economic Policy (NEP) which allowed some capitalist systems to exist to increase production