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