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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
The February Revolution (1917)
period characterised by
general demoralisation
war marked by defeats
economic harship
government introduced rations
small quantity of provisions
subsist in times of scarcity
new revolutionary outbreak
February 1917
striking workers and women demonstrations
slogan Bolsheviks "peace, bread and land"
demostrations resulted in general revolution
forces of order an Duma
aligned with revolutionaries
Tsar obliged abdicate
results
workers, peasants and soldiers
constituting Soviets
two poles of power
both heirs Revolution of 1905
one liberal, Duma
other revolutionary, the Soviet
agreed to form
Provisional Goverment
constituent assembly
gran political amnesty
establish democratic freedoms
Lenin
leader of the Bolsheviks
returned from exile
presented April Theses
refused to cooperate with Provisional Goverment
defended need to another revolution
Lenin
a years of exile
returned to lead Bolsheviks Party
The October Revolution (1917)
Provisional Government
tried boost war effort
General Kornilov
supreme command of army
tried overthrow goverment
tried install military dictatorship
immediate cause of new revolution
October Revolution
organised by Bolsheviks
night of 24-25 October
revolutionary troops occupied
strategic points of city
Winter Palace
dismissed Provisional Goverment
The first revolutionary government
26 October
Congress of Soviets constituted government
Soviet fo People's Commissars or Sovnarkom
chaired by Lenin
signed decrees
Economic decrees
nationalisation of banks
control of companies by workers
non-recognition of debt contracted by tsar
Decree of the right to self-determination
affected people of tsarist empire
Decree of Land
legalised peasants appropriations from
Church
landowners
Crown
private ownership abolished
local Soviets distrributed among peasants
Decree of Tcheka
political police
combat counterrevolutions
Decree on Peace
end the war
Decrees for the emancipation of women
complite equality men and women
Constituent Assembly
elections to chose it
universal suffrage
elections won by Socialist Revolutionary Party
rejected Sovnarkom decrees
Bolsheviks
dissolved Constituent Assembly by force
arguing electoral fraud
arguing true representation in Congress of Soviets
Mensheviks denunced coup d'etat
tsar and family executed July
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
signed by Lenin March 1918
peace treaty with Germany
immediate end of war for Russia
loss of important territories
