The 1917 Revolutions causes and consequences
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- The 1917 Revoluions
- Causes
- Mistakes made by the Tsar and the governement
- Nicholas becomes commander in chief of the army
- Without the Duma this meant Nicholas received the blame for failures such as The Battle of Tannenburg
- Leaves Tsarina in charge who is German and unopular with the Russan people
- Nicholas becomes commander in chief of the army
- The role of the Duma
- 26th February the Tsar dissolved the Duma
- Without the Duma this meant Nicholas received the blame for failures such as The Battle of Tannenburg
- Progressive Bloc- proposed change- Nicholas ignored them- dissolves the Duma- Provisional Committee is formed
- The committee highlighted how the Tsar was losing political influence in Petrograd
- 26th February the Tsar dissolved the Duma
- The role of the army
- Without the support of the army, the Tsar had lost his final supporters making his authority much weaker as he relied on the army to maintain power
- The role of protesters and strikes
- The workers established Soviets in order to put forward their demands
- More strikes emerged because of food shortages and poor working conditions because of WWI
- PG mistakes
- July Days - 3rd to 6th - 50,000 demonstrate outside Kronstadt Naval base
- Staying in the war - morale collapsed
- Lenin and Bolsheviks
- After Kornilov Affair - Bolsheviks seen as strong and defenders of petrograd
- Established Red Guards - gained weapons after Kornilov Affair
- Trotsky - Military Revolutionary Committee - storm winter palace
- After Kornilov Affair - Bolsheviks seen as strong and defenders of petrograd
- Social issues
- Poor quality of working conditions
- 1-2 million of Russian population were workers
- Famine
- Lack of social mobility
- Poor quality of working conditions
- Mistakes made by the Tsar and the governement
- Consequences
- Social
- Spread of Communism throughout the world
- Increase of global tensions between Capitalists and Communists
- Tremendous focus on education led to huge impact on the population
- Provided housing, free education and work to everyone
- Criticism of Imperialism
- Thousands killed in the aftermath for not sharing the same beliefs
- The people were not united
- Tremendous focus on education led to huge impact on the population
- Provided housing, free education and work to everyone
- Tremendous focus on education led to huge impact on the population
- The people were not united
- Spread of Communism throughout the world
- Political
- Lenin takes control
- Lenin asserts his control using Gulags, a system of labor camps
- Lenin's 3 decrees passed
- Land
- Peace
- Government
- Tsar's abdication
- tsar tries to return to petrograd - anti-gov soldiers block railway
- Duma encouragement
- Nicholas II and his family are executed
- Formation of the Soviet Union
- Emergence of Soviet Union as a world power
- Lenin takes control
- Economic
- Economically the country became destabilized
- Due to crash led to starvation and lack of public order
- Trade and industrial production dropped
- Skilled workers left the country
- The banks are nationalized and a national assembly is assembled to run the economy
- Industrial growth and organization of economy on five year plans
- Economically the country became destabilized
- Militaristic
- Russia pulls out of World War I
- signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- A third of Russia's population sliced away by the Brest-Litvosk treaty in March 1918
- Political
- Lenin takes control
- Lenin asserts his control using Gulags, a system of labor camps
- Lenin's 3 decrees passed
- Land
- Peace
- Government
- Tsar's abdication
- tsar tries to return to petrograd - anti-gov soldiers block railway
- Duma encouragement
- Nicholas II and his family are executed
- Formation of the Soviet Union
- Emergence of Soviet Union as a world power
- Lenin takes control
- signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Lenin began using secret police to put down and potential dissidents
- The revolution led to the Cold War at the end of World War 2
- Russia pulls out of World War I
- Social
- Causes
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