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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
The February Revolution (1917)
February Revolution (1917)
Duma
aligned with revolutionaries
tsar was obliged to abdicate
striking workers did demonstrations
slogan of the Bolsheviks: ‘peace, bread and land’
revolutionary strike
following months
workers, peasants and soldiers rebelled
seizing local power
constituting Soviets
April Theses
Conference of Soviets
where Lenin presented it
representatives from the whole of Russia
Lenin returned from Switzerland
move to a new phase of the revolution
refused to cooperate with
the Provisional Government
ration cards
trigger for the new revolutionary outbreak
acquire a small quantity of provisions
allowed to families
characterised by
war full of defeats
general demoralisation
economic hardship
Lenin (1870–1924)
1917
was on exile
returned to Russia
seizing of power
‘All the power for the Soviets’
law student and member of the Bolshevik Party
April Theses
rejection of the war
support for the Provisional Government
Bolshevik ideology
nationalisation of land and banks
Republic of Soviets
Provisional Government
agreed to establish
grant political amnesty
constituent assembly
democratic freedoms
Two poles of power
Duma
liberal
Soviet
revolutionary
heirs to the Revolution of 1905
The October Revolution (1917)
Overthrow the government
cause of a new revolution
Provisional Government increased social tension
General Kornilov
install military dictatorship
entrusted by Alexander Kerenski
October revolution
troops occupied the strategic points
took the Winter Palace
dismissed the Provisional Government
Lenin ordered the armed uprising
night of 24–25 October
Russian calendar
triumph of the revolution
communist revolution was beginning
The First Revolutionary Government
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lenin signed with Germany
March 1918
immediate end of the war for Russia
loss of important territories
industrial, agricultural and mineral wealth
relinquished more than a third of its population
Constituent Assembly
won by the Socialist Revolutionary Party
in January 1918
rejected the Sovnarkom decrees
Bolsheviks
true representation: Congress of Soviets
dissolved it by force
electoral fraud
elections by universal suffrage
Mensheviks and Esers
denounced a coup d’état
tsar and his family were executed
people went into exile
July 1918
Sovnarkom
chaired by Lenin
first decrees were signed
Decree of the right of self-determination
former tsarist empire
Decree of the Tcheka
combat the counterrevolution
Economic decrees
control of companies by the workers
non-recognition of the tsar’s debt
nationalisation of the banks
Decrees for the emancipation of women
complete equality
Decree of Land
legalised the peasant appropriations
abolished private ownership
Decree on Peace
26 October
Trotsky (1879–1940)
1905
organiser of the Petrograd Soviet
1917
posts in the Bolshevik Party
family of Jewish peasants
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
Russia lost Finland, the Baltic States and Poland
responsible for signing
organised the Red Army
Russian Civil War
