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5.5 THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION (1917)
The government introduced ration cards
These cards allowed families to acquire a small quantity of provisions
To be able to subsist in times of scarcity.
February 1917
striking workers and women led popular demonstrations
slogan
"peace, bread and land"
The demostrations resulted in a general revolutionary strike
The forces of order and the Duma
Aligned with the revolutionaries
The tsar realised that he no longer had support
He was obligated to abdicate
Two poles power
Both heirs to the Revolution of 1905
Had different characteristics and goals
Duma
They agreed to form a Provisional Government
Soviets
The liberal
The Provisional Government
Establish democratic freedoms and grant political amnesty.
The amnesty allowed Lenin to return from his exile in Switzerland
He presented the April Theses
Lenin refused to cooperate with the Provisional Government
And defended the need
The need to move to a new phase of the revolution aimed at taking power.
LENIN (1870–1924)
Lenin was a brilliant law student
He was the leader of the Bolsheviks
His motto was
‘All the power for the Soviets’
He returned to Russia to lead the Bolshevik Party
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION (1917)
The Provisional Government tried to boost the war effort
Alexander Kerenski
Entrusted the supreme command of the army to General Kornilov
Who tried to overthrow the government
This event became the immediate cause of a new revolution.
Lenin made an armed uprising
And
The Bolsheviks organised the October Revolution
Revolutionary troops occupied the strategic points of the city
took the Winter Palace
Dismissed the Provisional Government
24-25 October
Triumph of the revolution
It spread the idea that a communist revolution was beginning worldwide.
THE TEATRY OF BREST-LITOVSCK
In March 1918, Lenin signed a peace treaty with Germany
Which meant the immediate end of the war for Russia
In exchange for the loss of important territories
