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BRACKROUND TO THE SOVIET REVOLUTION
TSARIST RUSSIA
begining 20th century
Russian empire
population
unlevely distributed
great diversity
nationalities
people
cultures
150 million inhabitants
economy
agriculture
industrially
beginning to develop
standard of living
low
poverty
widespread
autocratic monarcy
tsar
absolute ruler
sovereign
backed by
Orthodox Curch
corrupt bureaucracy
feudal aristocracy
Political oposition to tsarism
Russian Social- Democratic Worker's Party
working class
revolution to eliminate
inecuality
injustice
1903
2 gropus
Bolsheviks
seizure of power
working class minority
leader
Vladimir Lenin
Mensheviks
more moderate
leader
Julius Martov
alliance
reformist liberalism
Marxist- inspired
cultural elite
liberal European tradition
FROM THE REVOLUTION OF 1905 TO THE GREAT WAR
Far East
competed
control of Korea / Manchuria
Russia
Japan
Russo- Japanese War
(1904- 1905)
Russia was defeated
weakness
tsarist regime
crisis
economic
political
social
forces opposing tsarism
take power
revolution
trigger
ruthless represion
peaceful demostration
people begged the tsar
improved living conditions
tsarist army
Winter Palace
St Petersburg
victims
more than a thousand
represed
thousand of demostrations
Bloody Sunday
popular outrage
final rupture
people
tsar
prerevolutionary situation
workers strikes
peasant revolts
popular protests
military uprisings
political strikes
main weapon
coordinated by
first soviet
St. Petersburg
later fundamental role in the revolution
workers
peasants
soldiers
1905
revolutionaries
didn't take power
tsar
some reforms
agrarian reform
distribution of lands
social base
support liberal regime
proyect cancelled
assasination of its promoter
establishmen
limited individual and citizen's liberties
creation
Duma
National Legislative Assembly
equivalent
parliament
controlled by the tsar
summer of 1914
World War I began
initial Russian defeats
tsar Nicholas II
not prevent collapse
breakdown
civil power
direct control
army 1915
worsened
situation
economic
social
demoralisation
army
people
poor living conditions
new revolutionary outburst
Russian Empire 1914
inmense territory
from Western Empire
to Pacific Ocean
from the Artic
to Afganistan
one sixth
Earth's surface
Trans- Siberian Railroad
connect
European part
most remote regions
Russian Empire
inagurated in 1904
