The document summarizes major events of the Russian Revolution from 1848 to 1924. It describes the Communist Manifesto of 1848 and growing revolutionary sentiment among industrial workers in Russia. Key events included Bloody Sunday in 1905, World War I from 1914 to 1917, and the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in March 1917. This led to provisional government and the Bolshevik Revolution in late 1917, bringing the Bolsheviks to power led by Lenin. After a civil war from 1920 to 1922, the Soviet Union was established, with Stalin becoming General Secretary and eventually Lenin's successor.

1. The Russian Revolution

2. Big Question:
 To what extent did life improve during the Soviet Era?
 What conditions led to the American Revolution?
 The French Revolution?
 The Industrial Revolution?
 What types of leaders does it take to ensure the
revolution will last?
 What types of government does it take to ensure the
revolution will last?

3. 1848: The Communist Manifesto
 History can be understood through
class struggles.
 Society is splitting into the bourgeoisie
(capitalist) and the Proletariat
(workers)
 ”Formation of the proletariat into a
class, overthrow of the bourgeoisie
supremacy, conquest of political
power by the proletariat”
 Communism will remove the
exploitation of workers and ally with
the proletariat because they have
similar aims

4. Czar Alexander III
 Censored public and private
documents
 Teachers wrote detailed reports
on students
 Only Russian language spoken

5. 1887: Lenin’s brother hangs1887: Lenin’s brother hangs
 Bomb hidden in book
to kill Tsar
 Hangs at 21
 Lenin now watched
closely by Tsar’s
secret police

6. 1894: Nicholas II marries1894: Nicholas II marries
 Wanted an autocracy
 Society was changing and
this would no longer work.
 Russia built up its industry
and became the fourth
ranking producer of steel.

7. 1895: Lenin Arrested
 Leader of the Bolsheviks
 He escaped to western
Europe to avoid arrest by
the czarist government.
 More about him later…

8. 18961896
 Nicholas II crowned Czar
of Russia

9. Revolutionary Movement
 Industrial Growth = grueling working conditions,
miserably low wages, and child labor.
 Revolutionaries believed that the industrial class
would overthrow the Czar.
 Karl Marx Views.
 Marxist split into two group:
 Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
 Mensheviks-popular support.
 Bolsheviks thought that you could sacrifice everything for
radical change.

10. 18961896
 Alexi first boy born to Tsar
Nicholas II and Tsarina
Alexandra
 Hemophilia

11. 1905 -- Bloody Sunday1905 -- Bloody Sunday
 January 22, 1905- 200,000 workers gathered with
their families at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.
 Guards kill upwards of 1,000 unarmed protesters

12. 1905 -- Bloody Sunday1905 -- Bloody Sunday
 This event causes a wave of strikes all over the country.
 Nicholas approved the creation of the Duma, Russia’s
first Parliament.

13. 1914 — WWI1914 — WWI
 Russia enters The Great War as an ally of France
and enemy of Germany
 Largest military on Earth

14. 1915 —1915 —
 Nicholas II moved his headquarters to the front
lines.
 His wife was left in control and ignores the
chief advisors and falls completely under the
influence of Rasputin.

15. 1916
Rasputin

17. Influence
 A “holy man” with magical powers.
 Made political decisions.
 The young aristocrats planned his
assassination.

18.  Poisoned, shot, tied up, and eventually drowned in the Neva River

19. 1917: March Revolution1917: March Revolution
 1917, women workers led
a strike about shortages of
bread and fuel.
 Nicholas abdicates.
 He and his family are
assassinated by
revolutionaries a year later.

20. Effects of the 1917 RevolutionEffects of the 1917 Revolution
 Leaders of the Duma establish a provisional government.
 A need to quit WWI because conditions worsen.
 Peasants began to want land.
 Social revolutionaries formed Soviets—local councils
consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers
 Lenin returns from exile—thanks to Germany

21. 1918: Bolshevik Revolution
 Bolsheviks give power to the
soviets.
 Lenin formed the Red Army made
of armed factory workers.
 They overturned the provisional
government in a few hours.

22. 1918: Bolsheviks in Power1918: Bolsheviks in Power
 Lenin ordered that all farmland be distributed among
the peasants
 Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Brest-
Litovsk surrendering WWI and giving a large chunk of
territory to Germany.
 St. Petersburg to Moscow

23. 1920: Russian Civil War Ends
 Reds win. Whites lose

24. 1922: U.S.S.R. established
 Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics
 Stalin is appointed General
Secretary
 Trotsky is appointed commisioner
of military affairs
 Lenin suffers second stroke and
retires from politics

25. 1924: Lenin Dies
 Stalin will become his successor