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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
February 1917
strikers (workers and women)
led to popular demoralization
slogan: "peace, bread and land"
forces and Duma alligned with revolutionaries
the tsar was forced to abdicate
February Revolution triumphed
Russian people seized local power
Two poles of power emerged
both heirs to the revolution of 1905
Duma (LIBERALS)
both agreed to form a provisional government
with democratic freedoms
Soviet (REVOLUTIONARIES)
a period of
new revolutionary outbreak
government introduced ration cards
characterized by
general demoralisation
war marked by defeats
economic hardship
The amnesty
allowed Lenin to return from exile
Lenin presented the April Theses
Conference of Soviets
he refused to cooperate wit the provisional government
he wanted to take all the power
FIRST REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT
elections were held
constituent assembly
won in January 1918
winners: socialist Revolutionary Party (SR)
they rejected the Sovnarkom decrees
Bolsheviks disolved the Constitutional assembly by force
arguing electoral fraud
true representation the Congress of soviets
Mensheviks denounced a coup d'etat
the tsar and his family executed in July 1918
meny people went into exile
on October 26
congress of Soviets constituted a government
chaired by Lenin
named Sovnarkom
first decrees were signed
decree of the Techka
political police to combat counterrevolutionaries
decree of the right of Self-determination
affected people of the statist regime
decrees for the emancipation of women
established equality between men and women
economic decrees
control companies
nationalisation of banks
non-recognition of the debt
decree of peace
ended war
decree of land
legalised peasant appropriations of assets
belonging to
the Church
landowners
the Crown
private ownership was abolished
march 1918
Lenin signed peace treaty with Germany
inmediate end of the war
Russia rehinquisted more than a 3rd of the population
wealth in
mineral
industry
agriculture
Treaty of Brest-Litovosk
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
Provisional Government
they tried to boost the war effect
they increased the social tension
Alexander Kerenski
entrusted the army to General Kornilov
Kornilov tried to overthrow the government
caused a new revolution
tried to establish military dictatorship
Lenin
he felt the time coming and moved an armed uprising
Bolsheviks organized the October Revolution
organized durein night of 24-25 October
Revolutionary troops occupied the city
dismissed the provisional Government
took the winter palace
next day the aurora announced the triumph
spread the idea of communist revolution worldwide
