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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION (1917)
new revolutionary outbreak
economic hardship
general demoralisation
a war marked by defeats
the government introduced ration cards
provisions
to subsist in times of scarcity
The February Revolution
striking workers
women led popular demonstrations
‘peace, bread and land’
general revolutionary strike
the Duma and the forces of order
aligned with the revolutionaries
the Tsar
abdicated
workers, peasants and soldiers rebelled
Soviets
political power
heirs to the Revolution of 1905
two poles
the Duma
liberal
the Soviet
revolutionary
provisional government
establish democratic freedoms
form a constituent assembly
grant political amnesty
LENIN (1870–1924)
returned from Switzerland thanks to the amnesty
leader of the Bolsheviks
presented the April Theses
in front of the conference of the Soviets
refused
to cooperate with the Provisional Government
new phase of the revolution
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION (1917)
cause
the provisional government
tried to boost the war effort
Alexander Kerenski
head of the government
give the control of the army to General Kornilov
tried to overthrow the government
military dictatorship
organised by the Bolsheviks
Lenin's initiative
move to an armed uprising
night of 24–25 October
occupied the strategic point of the city
took the Winter Palace
dismissed the Provisional Government
the revolution triumphed
spread globally
the beginning of a communist revolution
THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT
Sovnarkom
Soviet of People’s Commissar
first decrees
decree on peace
to end the war
Decree of Land
legalised the peasant appropriations
Private ownership of land was abolished
they were distributed by the Soviets
Economic decrees
nationalisation of the banks
control of companies by the workers
non-recognition of the debt with foreigners
Decree of the right of self-determination
former parts of the tsarist empire
Decree of the Tcheka
political police
combat the counterrevolution
Decrees for the emancipation of women
equality between men and women
chaired by Lenin
Constituent Assembly
by elections
won by the Socialist Revolutionary Party
rejected the Sovnarkom decrees
January 1918
The tsar and his family were executed
many people went into exile
dissolved by the Bolsheviks
saying that it was electoral fraud
put the Congress of Soviets
Mensheviks and Esers denounced a coup d’état
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
a treaty with Germnay
signed by Lenin
the immediate end of the war with Russia
Russia loos territories
more than a third of
the population
industries
agricultural wealth
mineral source
