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Revolution
• Strikes lead to revolution in St. Petersburg 1917.
•Soldiers join workers in protest.
•Tsar abdicates.
Unity while overthrowing old regime
• Provisional Government set up.
•Karensky leads provisional government
• Lenin returns to Russia and seized
opportunity to take control. He took over the
soviet of Petrograd.
•Bolshevik Red Guards seized the Winter
Palace. Symbol of workers taking control of
government.
Disunity and conflict over founding new regime
• (1918 – 1921) Civil War breaks out,
Reds vs. White.
• 15 million died
• By 1920, Red Army had seized power
One set of revolutionaries eliminates/persecutes others
• Lenin instituted a series of political and
economic reforms to recover from civil war.
•Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist
Party
•Wrote a constitution based on democratic and
socialist ideas, but the Communist party held all
of the control.
Small, organized minority suppresses ALL
opposition to defend or advance revolutionary
cause
• Stalin and a small group of trusted officials uses
terror to suppress ALL opposition.
• Economically he established 5 year plans setting
Impossible quotes
• Established collective farms which led to famine.
• Created a society that forced children to stand each
Morning and thank comrade Stalin
Revolutionaries suppressed or eliminated
SCAPEGOATING
• Stalin’s purges
•Millions are killed or sent to Siberia
• Show trails take place, intellectuals, officers, killed.
Rise to oppression
• “Police state” with no freedoms established.
• Famine and terror continue USSR
•Museum of atheism established
•Children were forced to confess whether or not parents
Spoke against the state
Reaction to revolution REVERSES gains rise of
DICTATOR
• Stalin and the communist Party rule with iron fist.
• USSR