Lenin Russian Revolution

1. Russian Revolution USSR
 World War I
 Czar become unpopular
 Grigori Rasputin.
 Czar abdicates March 15, 1917

2. The Provisional Government
 After Czar Nicholas II
 Central government

3. The Provisional Government
 Does not withdraw
from the war
 Lost popular
support

4. Revolutionary Groups
 Fill the power vacuum
 Mensheviks
 Bolsheviks

5. Mensheviks
 More followers
 Socialist
revolution would
be the gradual
work of the
masses.

6. Bolsheviks
 Radical
 Socialist society
could be introduced
immediately by
force.
 Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin

8. Lenin
 Dedicated his life to promoting revolution.
 Germany wanted Russia out of the war;
 Lenin would promote a withdrawal
 Germany helps him back to Russia

10. Lenin Promises
 Russian would
withdraw from the
WWI
 Peasants would be
given land and food
 “Peace, Land and
Bread”

11. The Bolshevik Revolution
 Summer of 1917
 Demonstrations on
the Bolsheviks
 Called Lenin a
German agent

12. The Bolshevik Revolution
 In November 1917
 Bolsheviks
staged a coup in
Petrograd

13. The Bolshevik Revolution
 Foundation of a socialist state
 Ended private ownership of property
 Distributing land to peasants
 Workers control of factories and mines.
 Bolsheviks claim absolute power

15. The Bolshevik Revolution
 Bolsheviks change their name to
Communists
 Eliminate all rivals
 Look to spread their revolution
throughout the world.

16. Civil War
 Treaty of Brest-
Litovsk

17. Civil War
 Russia civil war
between the
Communists and
their political
opponents

18. Civil War
 Whites
 Opponents - Whites
 Promised to defeat
the Reds quickly
 Russia back into
World War I against
the Central Powers.

19. Civil War
 Red Army
 organized to
defend the
Communist state.
 Leon Trotsky
leader

20. The Terror
 Communists
tightened their hold
on Russia.
 “war
communism”
 Communist kill the
czar and his family

21. The Terror
 Cheka
 arrest “enemies of
the revolution.”
 Many who had backed
Lenin’s withdraw their
support and flee

23. Building the Soviet Union
 Supreme Soviet (elected legislature)
 All citizen over 18 the right to vote
 Political power and resources were the
workers

24. Lenin's NEP
 1921 New
Economic Policy
 To reverse effects of
"war communism"

25. Lenin's NEP
 Major industries and
manufacturing under
government control
 Small manufacturers,
farmers owned their
own businesses
 They could earn profits
(capitalism)

26. Lenin's NEP
 Economy improves
 Kulaks (wealth
peasants) benefited

27. USSR
 Russia became the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR)
 Controlled by a handful of politicians with
authoritarian powers.
 A pyramid, the party boss at the top and the
peasants at the bottom.