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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION - Coggle Diagram
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION (1917)
Period of economic hardship, war defeats...
New revolutionary outbreak
Introduced
ration cards
Allowed to acquire small quantity of provisions
In times of scarcity
In February 1917
Striking workers/women led demonstrations
‘peace, bread and land’
Resulted in revolutionary strike
Tsar realised he no longer had support
He abdicate
February Revolution
had triumphed
Workers, peasants and soldiers rebelled
Constituting Soviets
Two poles of power
Duma: Liberals
Soviets: radicals
Different characteristics and goals
Agreed to form a
Provisional Government
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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION (1917)
Provisional Government boost the war effort
Kerenski entrusted the command army to Kornilov
Tried to overthrow the government
Install a military dictatorship
New revolution
Lenin move to an armed uprising
From the Smolny Institute
Bolsheviks organised the October Revolution
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THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT
Congress of Soviets constituted ->
Sovnarkom
Chaired by Lenin, first decrees
Decree on Peace
End the war
Decree of Land
Legalised the peasant appropriations
Belonging to Crown/Church & landowners
Private ownership of land was abolished
Soviets distributed among peasants
Economic decrees
Nationalisation of the banks
Control of companies by the workers
Non-recognition of the debt
Decree of the right of self-determination
Affected formers of tsarist empire
Decree of the Tcheka
Political police to combat the counterrevolution
Decrees for the emancipation of women
Equality between men and women
Elections for a
Constituent Assembly
Socialist Revolutionary Party = ‘Esers’ won
Bolsheviks dissolved the Constituent Assembly
For electoral fraud
Tue representation was in the Congress of Soviets
Mensheviks and Esers denounced a coup d’état
Tsar and his family were executed
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lenin signed a peace treaty with Germany
End of the war for Russia in exchange for territories
LENIN (1870–1924)
Active member of the Bolshevik Party
Returned to Russia to lead
Seizing of power in the October Revolution
Expressed Bolshevik ideology in the April Theses
