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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION (1917)
triggered by the introduction of ration cards
they provided provisions to subsist
Context: harship, low morale, poverty, destruction, war...
In February 1917 the demonstrations began
they used the slogan of the Bolsheviks
‘peace, bread and land’
the Duma (parliament) and forces of order joined
the tsar ended abdicating
had no support
after the tsar left
two powers emerged
the Duma
liberal ideas
supported by the Mensheviks
the Soviets
revolutionary ideas
formed by
workers
peasants
soldiers
supported by the Bolsheviks
they reached and agreement and formed
a Provisional Government
establish democratic freedoms
form a constituent assembly
grant political amnesty
Lenin was able to return from exile
April Theses
written by Lenin
presented in the Conference of Sovients
Lenin stated that
he didn't want to cooperate with the Provisional Government
in was time for a new phase in the revolution
rejected to continue the war
nationalisation of land and banks
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin
brilliant lawer
leader of the Bolsheviks
was sent into exile
1917 returned to Russia
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION (1917)
trigger of the new revolution
Provisional Government
tried to boost the war effort
social tension invreased
General Kornilov
was named to rule the supreme command of the army
by Alexander Kerenski
head of government
he tried to intsall a military dictatorship
the October revolution
night of 24-25
troops occupied strategic points of
St. Petersburg
took the Winter Palace
dismise the Provisional Government
Lenin planed an armed uprising
the Aurora anunced the succed of the revolution
begining of the communist revolution
THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT
26 October
Conggres of Soviets created a government
Soviet of People's Commissars or Sovnarkom
led by Lenin
their first decrees
Decree on Peace
to end the war
decree of Land
abolition of private ownership of land
it belong to the Soviets (state) and was distributed
Economic decrees
nationalisation of banks
control of companies by the workes
non-recognition of the foreign debts the during the tsar's rule
Decree of the right of self-determination
Decree of the Tcheka
political police to combat counterrevolutions
Decrees for the emancipation of women
equality between men and women
Elections
to choose a Constituent Assembly
January 1918, Socialist Revolutionary party won
known as Easers
rejected the Sovnarkom decrees
Bolsheviks coup d'etat
they dissolved the Constituent Assembly by force
because of electoral fraud
they stablished the Congress of Soviets
Mensheviks and Easers did not agreed
1918 July execution of the Trsa and his family
March 1918
Peace treate of Brest-Litovsk
Lenin with Germany
end of the war for Russia
they had to give Germany territories
more than third part of its population
TROTSKY (1879–1940)
came from a family of Jewish peasants
1917, he held important posts in the Bolshevik Party
responsible for signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
organised the Red Army during the Russian Civil War
the head behind some of the Bolshevik ideas
