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The Russian Revolution
Ms. Moran
SWBAT: Identify and analyze the causes of the
Russian Revolution by completing a graphic
organizer on the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Political Causes:
(1) weak, ineffective Czar, (2) Spread of Marxist/ communist
ideas
Social Causes:
(1) Gap between rich & poor, (2) Peasant’s desire for
land, (3) Deaths from WWI
Economic Causes:
(1) food & fuel shortages [WWI], (2) striking workers,
(3) terrible transportation system
Revolution!
Background on Russia
• Czars had total control
• Czars needed to keep the rich happy to
maintain power how do you think they did
this?
• Development of serfdom
• Serfs were treated similar to slaves
The Romanov Family
• Ruled Russia for 300
years
• Czar Nicholas II
• Wife of Nicholas II
(Alexandra)
• Incompetent leader
who ignored basic
needs of Russian
people
Events Leading to Revolution
1) Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
•humiliating
defeat for
Russia.
•Russians lost
confidence in
the Czar
Bloody Sunday
• Czarist troops fired on a peaceful demonstration of
workers in St Petersburg.
• When news of one hundred dead and hundreds more
wounded broke, everyone turned against the Czar
Russia in World War I
• Men lacked food,
weapons and supplies
• Czar Nicholas II went to
the front lines to help
the troops,
• The Czar was
incompetent on the
battlefront.
Rasputin
• Self-proclaimed “Holy
man” (Mad Monk)
• He eased the suffering
of Alexandra’s
hemophiliac son
• Had too much political
influence
• Rasputin was killed by
Russian nobles who
feared the loss of the
monarchy.
Rise of the
Bolsheviks
Peace!
Land!
Bread!
• Made up mostly workers
• Vladimir Lenin believed in
a communist revolution
• Lenin and the Bolsheviks
promised the people
“Peace, Land, and Bread.”
• Lenin was able to unite
the workers in revolution
and drive the temporary
government out.
The Revolution Begins
• the Russian Civil War (1917-1921)
• Communists- The Reds
VS.
• Pro-democrats/ anti-communists- The Whites
So what happened to the Czar?
• murdered (Czar Nicholas II
and the Russian Imperial
Romanov family)
• ordered by Vladimir Lenin
to prevent the rescue of
the Imperial Family
• death of the Czar and the
last remains of the Czarist
Russian system in 1921,
transformed Russia into
the United Soviet State of
Russia (USSR).