Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
05 The October Revolution, imagen - Coggle Diagram
05 The October Revolution
The February Revolution
economic hardship, general demoralisation and war marked by defeats
trigger for the new revolutionary outbreak
when introduced ration cards
These cards allowed families some resources
Amensty allowed Lenin
to return from his exile in Switzerland
April Theses presented by Lenin
gathered at the Conference of Soviets
He refused to cooperate with the Provisional Government
defended the need to move to a new phase of the revolution
aimed at taking power
Two poles powers would emerge
both heirs to the revolution
had different caracteristics
one liberal: Duma, the other one revolutionary: Soviet
form a Provisional government
establish democratic freedoms
grant political amnesty
February 1917
popular demonstrations
with Bolsheviks
peace, bread and land
as slogan
general revolutionary strike
Forces of Order and Duma aligned with the revolutionaries
Tsar had no followers, so he had to abdicate
February revolution had triumphed
Over following months, revolutions take part
The October Revolution
Provisional Government boosted war effort
Alexander Kerenski
Entrusted supreme command of the army to Kornilov
he tried to overthrow the government
This became the cause of a new revolution
Lenin made an armed uprising
Bolsheviks organised the October Revolution
Revolutionary troops occupied strategic points
Warning shots from the cruiser Aurora
announced triumph of the revolution
The First Revolutionary Government
Economic decrees
Nationalisation of the banks
control of companies
Non-recognition of the debt contracted
Decree of the Tcheka
political police to combat counterrevolution
Decree on land
more lands for the peasants
Decrees for the emancipation of women
complete equality between men and women
Decree on peace
end of war
Decree of the right of self-determination
affected people of former tsarist empire
