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The October revolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - These cards allowed families to acquire a small quantity of provisions to be able to subsist in times of scarcity
  - - - Over the following months, workers, peasants and soldiers rebelled throughout Russia, seizing local power and constituting Soviets
  - - - One liberal, the Duma
      - The other revolutionary, the Soviet
        
        Both tried to give political direction to the revolution and agreed to form a Provisional Government
        
        It would establish democratic freedoms, form a constituent assembly and grant political amnesty
  - - - His strategy culminated in the seizing of power in the October Revolution with the motto ‘All the power for the Soviets’
    - - Outright rejection of the war
      - No support for the Provisional Government
      - Establishment of a Republic of Soviets
      - Nationalisation of the land and of banks
- - - - This event became the immediate cause of a new revolution
  - - - Occupied the strategic points of the city
      - Took the Winter Palace
      - Dismissed the Provisional Government
    - - The triumph of the revolution
      - Spread the idea that a communist revolution was beginning worldwide
- - - - Decree on Peace, to end the war
      - Decree of Land
        
        Legalised the peasant appropriations of assets belonging to the Crown, the Church and landowners
        
        Private ownership of land was abolished and passed to the local Soviets to be distributed among the peasants
      - Economic decrees
        
        Nationalisation of the banks
        
        Control of companies by the workers
        
        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 the Tcheka
        
        Political police to combat the counterrevolution
      - Decrees for the emancipation of women
        
        It established complete equality between men and women
  - - - As such, it relinquished more than a third of its population, and of its industrial, agricultural and mineral wealth
  - - - Russia lost Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, and part of Ukraine and Belarus