The+Russian+Revolution

Derek Tran


 * Tsar Nicholas II was unprepared for the burden of war
 * his inability to lead an army led to the destruction of the Russian forces
 * All social classes were feeling the and seeing the effects of the incompetency and inefficiency of the Tsarist government
 * The Tsar's wife, Alexandra put Rasputin, a peasant, to a position of influence, he was assisnated in 1916
 * 1917-the revolution starts
 * March revolution of 1917- The Duma set up a provisional gov't and the Tsar abdicated
 * soviets- council of workers and soldiers' deputies, socialists, social Revolutionaries
 * Marxist Social Democratic Party- divided in 1903 to create Mensheviks- cooperate in parliamentary democracy to create a socialist state and the Bolsheviks led by Lenin
 * Lenin realeases April Thesis-states basically the people must have the power, its a blueprint for revolutionary reaction
 * June 1917 Lenin's accused of attemting to overthrow the Provisional gov't
 * July 1917, Alexander Kerensky- calls for help of Bolshevik and soviets to stop General Kornilov from seizing power
 * Nov. 6-7 Bolshevik forces seize Winter Palace, Lenin turns over the sovreignty of the Provisional Government to the Congress of Soviets, Lenin held the real power though
 * Civil war between the Whites and the Reds in 1919, Reds(Bolsheviks) win
 * practiced "war communism" and established secret police, Cheka