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05 THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
The February revolution (1917)
government introduced ration cards
allowed families to acquire a small quantity of provisions to be able to subsist in times of scarcity
In February 1917, striking workers and women led popular demonstrations with the slogan of the Bolsheviks ‘peace, bread and land’
demonstrations resulted in a general revolutionary strike
When the tsar realised that he no longer had support, he was obliged to abdicate
February Revolution had triumphed
Over the following months, workers, peasants and soldiers rebelled throughout Russia, seizing local power and constituting Soviets
Two poles of power would emerge from the political space left by the tsar
the Duma
liberal
the Soviet
revolutionary
tried to give political direction to the revolution and agreed to form a Provisional Government
amnesty allowed Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, to return from his exile
presented the April Theses in front of representatives from the whole of Russia gathered at the Conference of Soviets
refused to cooperate with the Provisional Government and defended the need to move to a new phase of the revolution aimed at taking power
The ocotber revolution (1917)
Provisional Government tried to boost the war effort, which increased social tension
head of government, Alexander Kerenski, entrusted the supreme command of the army to General Kornilov
tried to overthrow the government and install a military dictatorship
became the immediate cause of a new revolution
Lenin felt the time had come and made the decision to move to an armed uprising
Bolsheviks organised the October Revolution
revolutionary troops occupied the strategic points of the city, took the Winter Palace and dismissed the Provisional Government
warning shots from the cruiser Aurora announced the triumph of the revolution and with it spread the idea that a communist revolution was beginning worldwide
The first revolutionary government
Congress of Soviets constituted a government
chaired by Lenin
first decrees were signed
Economic decrees
nationalisation of the banks, control of companies by the workers and the non-recognition of the debt contracted by the tsar’s government with foreigners
Decree of the right of self-determination
affected the peoples of the former tsarist empire
Decree of Land
legalised the peasant appropriations of assets belonging to the Crown, the Church and landowners
Decree of the Tcheka
political police to combat the counterrevolution
Decree on Peace
end the war
Decrees for the emancipation of women
established complete equality between men and women
oviet of People’s Commissars or Sovnarkom
Elections by universal suffrage were held to elect a Constituent Assembly
were won by the Socialist Revolutionary Party
Bolsheviks dissolved the Constituent Assembly by force
Lenin signed a peace treaty with Germany
the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
meant the immediate end of the war for Russia in exchange for the loss of important territories
relinquished more than a third of its population, and of its industrial, agricultural and mineral wealth
