The Russian Revolution occurred in two phases in 1917. The February Revolution overthrew the Czar and established a provisional government, while the October Revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power led by Vladimir Lenin. Key events included armed clashes in Petrograd, the establishment of the Bolshevik party and ideology, and the killing of the former Czar Nicholas II and his family by the Bolsheviks.

1. Russian Revolution
Malik Mazyck

2. Table of Contents
Page 1 ………………………………………………………………………….. Timeline
Page 2 ………………………………………………………………………….. Country Map
Page 3 ………………………………………………………………………..February Revolution
Page 4 ………………………………………………………………………October Revolution
Page 5 …………………………………………………………………............Bolsheviks Party
Page 6 …………………………………………………………………………… Lenin Vladimir
Page 7 …………………………………………………………………………Soviet Flag
Page 8 …………………………………………………………………………Czar Nicholas II

3. Timeline
March 8,1917 March 15, 1917 November 6, 1917 July 17, 1918 June 28, 1919
Protesters stormed St. Petersburg Bolsheviks seized power Treaty of Versailles was signed
Czar Nicholas II was overthrown Bolsheviks killed Czar II and his family

4. Petrograd Map of Revolution
Petrograd
= Places where the Revolution took place

5. February Revolution
The February Revolution was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. The February
Revolution happened because the cities for the workers was terrible and they were getting tired.
The revolution confined to the capital lasting less than a week, involving mass demonstrations
and armed clashes with police and gendarmes. It appeared to brake out randomly, without any
real leadership or formal planning.

6. October Revolution
It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 also
known as the Great October Socialist Revolution.The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who
used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards
forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings
on 24 October 1917. The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the Russian Provisional
Government and gave the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks.

7. Bolsheviks Party
The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian
Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic
Labour Party (RSDLP). The Bolshevik revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky commonly used the
terms "Bolshevism" and "Bolshevist" after his exile from the Soviet Union. In early October,
Vladimir Lenin convinced the Bolshevik Party that the time for revolution had come. As the
leading, but not sole, personality in the Bolshevik Party, he is considered the leader of the
Bolshevik Revolution.

8. Lenin Vladimir
Lenin Vladimir was significant because hewas a Russian communist revolutionary, politician
and political theorist. He also served as the leader of the Russian Soviet Federative

9. SocialistRepublicfrom 1917.He started the Bolshevik Party. He also lived in an exile in
Switzerland.
Soviet Union
The significance of this flag was that it represented the Soviet Union after the Russian
Revolution in 1917. The flag design was a star hammer and a sickle. The hammer

10. symbolizesurban industrial workers. The sickle represented agricultural workers (peasants) who
together, as the proletarian class, form the state.
Czar Nicholas II

11. Czar Nicholas II was born May18, 1868. Nicholas was the son of Emperor Alexander III and
Empress Maria. Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia. The revolution was against the tsar which
proceeded in December 1916 when a few conservatives in Tsar Nicholas' court conspired to
remove him from power. On July 17, 1918 he and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks.