01 Introduction Flashcards
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February revolution
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- Feb/March 1917
- Tsar Nicholas II abdicates
- Provisional government takes over
2
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Lenin’s April Theses
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- April 1917
- Published when Lenin returned to Russia
- Promised to pull Russia out of WW1
- Promised land to the peasants
3
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June Offensive
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- June/July 1917
- Many soldiers refused to go on costly assaults and preferred to only defend the land already held
- Assault turned into a complete failure with a costly retreat
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July Days rebellion and mutiny
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- July 1917
- Due to men up to the age of 45 being conscripted
- 10,000 armed sailors of the Kronstadt naval base marched into Petrograd
- Provisional Government survived this because army units that were sympathetic to the Petrograd Soviet had been ordered elsewhere to participate in the June offensive meaning there were not army units to support the protest
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Kornilov affair
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- August/September 1917
- Attempted coup by General Kornilov to destroy the Petrograd Soviet and the Provisional Government
- Alexander Kerensky, the head of the Provisional Government, turned to the Petrograd Soviet for help and armed them in desperation
- Soldiers in Kornilov’s army refused to fight and thus the coup fell apart and Kornilov was arrested
6
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October Revolution
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- October/November 1917
- Bolshevik coup d’etat
- Bolsheviks take control of the country
7
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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- 1918
- Peace with Germany
- meant agricultural and industrial land lost
8
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Russian civil war
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1918-1921
