Name: Robyn Farrell
Date: 4.3.13
Section Three: Revolution in Russia (393-395)
Directions: As you read each section, takes notes in bullet form, in your own words under each of the headings. There is also a column for your
comments, connections, and predictions. Use it!!
The Russian Revolution
After the Revolution
- Russian people wanted change
Revolution Begins
- March 8, 1917, citizens went to Petrograd to
protest because of no food and fuel
- police and soldiers had to shoot them, but
refused
- Nicholas II told Duma to disband, but they
didn’t listen
- He didn’t have control of his nation, and
forced to abdicate on March 15, monarchy
ended
- Called this the Feb. Revolution, because their
system of the calendar was behind by 13 days
The Provisional Government
- Duma established temporary government,
aka provisional government: leader Aleksandr
Keens
- Russians unhappy, wanted no more war, but
still continued on with WWI and peasants
wanted land and food, but not much being
done
- people opposed to this were Bolsheviks,
wanted basic change – Marxist Revolution
(social equality)
- Bolshevism became known as MarxismLeninism because of their leader
Bolshevik Revolution
- wanted to end their involvement in WWI, sent
Leon Trotsky, an official, to negotiate for peace
- army so weak, agree was harsh to Russia, but
gave up land
Civil War
- agreement to this, made their opponents mad
(White Army)
- White Army made up of army leaders, and
political opponents of Bolsheviks and wealthy
Russians
- Whites received help from France and US
(because they opposed Bolsheviks)
- Civil war broke out for three years against them,
millions died, famine came across
- ended in 1920, Bolsheviks won
New Economic Policy
- economy in ruins because of war, peasants and
workers hit the most
- Lenin introduced New Economic Policy –
permitted some capitalistic activity
- peasants could sell food for profit, wanted to
have more food production
The Soviet Union
- 1922 economy improving
- united with other lands that were orginially theirs
and made the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
(Soviet Union)
Comments/connections…
- What were the actions of Lenin that made him be
exiled off of Russia before he came back and
started his reign?
- It was interesting to see that the government
wanted to make an equal society but still you see
the lower class suffering, while the upper class still
was living a great life.
- I think that the only reason that Kerensky’s
government had failed was that they had failed to
meet the demands of the peasants during that
time. If they had gotten what the wanted, which
was land and more food, they would have been a
little more successful in that form of government.
- I think after all the mess that was made with the
Bolsheviks and the White Army that after Lenin
died it’s going to start back up again. This is
probably why Russia might have a little more
problems in the future, because of that loss of
great power, and no guidance form there on out.
- Kerenskys plans not working for final military
offense against CP, rebellion started, Russian
army collapsed
- November 1817 Bolshevik workers called Red
Guard attacked provisional government called
October Revolution
- government collapses, and Lenin started
establishing communist programs
- seized factories and lands and gave it to
workers and peasants
- Lenin’s health was bad, he died in 1924, no
person to rule after him, and led to a struggle in
SU