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describe the pre existing conditions
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social, political and economic
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how did Russia failed to progress?
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socially politically or economically
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Europe developed a more
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middle class society with businessmen and professionals
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majority of russian people wanted a change and saw the system of autocracy as a
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barrier to this
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what was a second aspect to pre existing conditions? whih lead to?
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horrible working conditions which workers in russia has to suffer
-strikes where 100s of 1000s joined |
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bloody sunday 4 key points
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-9th jan 1905
-200 000 unarmed workers -lead by father gapon -500 killed |
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what happened after bloody sunday? up until this event...
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undermined and support for revolutionaries grew
- it was russian system that was moved rather than Tsar himself personally |
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why was conditions of peasants bad?
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inadequate land, had to repay gov loans to buy in first place
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what increased? what declined? what did they face? therefore(pre existing)
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-Increased: rural population, interest payments, debt
-Declined: profitability, food production -periodic famines -unhappy, easily persuaded for a revolution (tsar abdication) to happen |
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since the tsar had not wanted power in first place...
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it was easy for his abdication to occur
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what was the tsar unable to provide? together, what did they provided?
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changes that the first key cause required if he was to attain his crown
- a simmering pot of political, social and economic change just waiting for a trigger |
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instead what was the tsar inclined to? thus?
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the patterns of previous Romanovs which served Russia for the past 300 years but were no longer relevant
-russia needed a change but the problem was that the tsar did not know how to go about that change |
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when was the 'october manifesto'? what was it?
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-October 1905
-Duma to look good as he allowed formation of political parties and freedom of speech, however did not listen |
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when was fundamental laws formed? what was it?
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April 23rd 1906
-tsar still supreme over law, church and duma; autocracy declared |
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how many workers were fired? (event)
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20 000
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due to the strikes what happened to factories?
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many workers participated so almost all factories in petrograd were shut down
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what keeps the tsar in control?
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the army
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when was the abdication of the tsar?
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2nd March 1917
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what happened at the end of the event?
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-romanovs under hous arrest
-provisional government took over control |
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why was intro and failure negative?
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due to it's quick failure
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for how long was the prov gov in dual government for?
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3rd march to october revolution
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what did the kerensky offensive promised?
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to get russia out of the war
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what was the kerensky offenesive?
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-counter attack on Germany and Austria
-restore morale and discipline in army - build prestige of prov gov |
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what was kornilov's aim?
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destroy soviets and get back to war
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what happend before kornilov?
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Lenin formed the Military- Revolution Council in May 1917
-urged pet sov to pass army order #1 |
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because red guard was formed to protect petrograd, what happened?
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Kornilov's troop refused to fight, he was arrested.
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whay was prov gov positive?
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Finally had a gov. political groups, human rights and freedom of speech put into place
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when did lenin returned from finalnd? what did he say in his speech?
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Oct 1917
-"hunger does not wait. the peasants uprising does not wait. the war does not wait." |
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by the oct revolution bolsheiks
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-gained support of the army, bolshevik leaders talked to factory workers for hours
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what was the bol slogan?
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'peace, bread and land.'
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what did the shutdown of bol newspapers give?
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excuse to start revolution
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what happened on 24th oct?
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kerensky prepares the army for possible balshevik attempt to seize power
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how many cadets were there?
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2000
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when the sailors took control wgat was there little of?
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resistance
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what was the battleship used for?
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to threaten members of prov gov leave, those didn't were then arrested immediately
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what happened by the end of the october revolution?
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bolsheviks came into power, lenin new leader of Russia
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when was the 'treaty of litovsk' signed?
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3rd march 1918
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when did the civil war occur? what did it result?
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1918
-bol staying in power |
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what were reasons for civil war?
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whites wanted to fight back; rest of world opposed to comintern, dropping out of WWI
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what did the civil war cause?
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food shortages, famine and disease
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reds won because they were more...
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organised, many thought fighting better world with communism or disliked foreign countries
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what was war communism?
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whole pop have to provide supplies to warfront which meant food is rationed, peasants forced to give food to the government
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what was red terror?
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murdered any whites found
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what is an advantage which the reds have?
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control of internal lines of communication
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how was bol coming into power negative?
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-gov owned all property, no freedom of speech
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what did the sailor take control of?
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stations and services in petrograd
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what did bolsheviks win?
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majorities of the soviets
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a factor that makes prov positive?
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political groups put into place
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what wad asked in the petition?
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a democratic parliament
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what did the petrograd soviet do?
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helped re establish workers and soldiers
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what is one factor that they demonstrated about on 25th?
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food shortages
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