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AOS3: Causes Of Russian Revolution (Key Events) Flashcards

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Russo-Japanese War

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 1904-05

2)
- Tsar’s policy of expansionism

3)

  • Created a financial/economic crisis in Russia
  • Degraded national pride (humiliation)
  • Hatred for incompetent Tsar

4)

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Bloody Sunday

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 9 January, 1905

2)

  • Grievances with economic crisis
  • 120,000 people on strike

3)

  • Showed Tsar did not want to reform/compromise
  • Nicholas’ image deteriorates: ‘Little Father’ to ‘Bloody Nicholas’
  • Spawned hundreds of strikes: Potemkin, Moscow Uni (400,000 people by end of Jan)

4)

  • 200 killed
  • ‘They came to realise that they could win their rights only by struggle.’ (CPSU)
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February Revolution

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 26-27 February, 1917

2)
- February worker strikes

3)

  • Caused Nicholas’ abdication
  • Showcase of people’s power (force to achieve goals)
  • Establishment of Prov Gov
  • Influence of Bolsheviks/Mensheviks increases

4)
- ‘The result of the collapse of public support in the government.’ (Smith)

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April Thesis

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 4 April 1917

2)

  • Lenin’s return to Petrograd
  • Discontent with Provisional Government

3)

  • Declaration of want to take power = precipitated October Revolution
  • Ended prosperous period under Dual Authority

4)
- ‘Articulated the increasingly radical temper of…the militant workers and troops.’ (Wood)

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July Days

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) July, 1917

2)

3)

  • Kronstadt soldiers revolt against commanders
  • Nobody claiming responsibility = Prov Gov assumes Bolsheviks challenged their authority (Bolsheviks arrested)
  • Lenin flees
  • Precipitated Oct Rev

4)

  • 20,000 Kronstadt soldiers
  • 20,000 Putilov workers
  • 800 Bolsheviks arrested
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October Revolution

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 25-26 October, 1917

2)

  • Discontent with the Prov Gov (continued WWI, Delayed elections, fiscal crisis, incompetence, illegitimacy)
  • Kerensky’s attack on the Bolsheviks (closed newspapers, lifted bridges, sent troops to arrest Bolsheviks - 23/24 Oct)

3)

  • Provisional Government overthrown
  • Formation of a Soviet government, led by the Bolsheviks
  • Achievement of new revolutionary society

4)
- ‘The Bolsheviks were simply much more
in tune with popular feeling.’ (Wood)

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Lenin’s ‘What is to be done?’

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 1901-02

2)

3)

  • Established goals of his future party
  • Outlined significance of Proletariat
  • Precipitated Bolshevik-Menshevik split

4)

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October Manifesto

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 17 October, 1905

2)
- Strikes in Moscow/Petrograd = paralysed economy

3)

  • Tsar forced to bend to the will of the people
  • Reforms (freedom of religion, speech, assembly, association)
  • Power of popular movements realised

4)

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Four Dumas

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A 
1)
First: (1906-07)
Second: (Feb 1907- June 1907)
Third: (1907-1912)
Fourth: (1912-1914)

2)
- October Manifesto

3)

  • Voting only given to wealthy male landowners = discontent for the excluded majority
  • Enabled revolutionary parties to consolidate influence (2nd Duma)

4)
- 60% urban workers excluded from voting

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Lena Goldfields massacre

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 17 April, 1912

2)

3)

  • Symbolised Tsarist/Police oppression
  • Spawned 9000 strikes over next 2 years
  • Revived worker’s movement

4)

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Tsar Nicholas II’s abdication

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 2 March, 1917

2)
- February Revolution

3)

  • End of 300 year Romanov Dynasty
  • Peasants join revolution
  • Establishment of new Provisional Government

4)
- ‘The Romanov regime fell under the weight of
its own internal contradictions.’ (Figes)

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World War I

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 1914-1917

2)

  • Pact with Serbia threatened
  • Protector of the Slavic nations

3)

  • Political: Suspicion of Royal corruption (Tsarina + Rasputin), degraded Nicholas’ image, Nicholas blamed for loss
  • Economic: Transport systems collapse, financial crisis from war expenditures
  • Social: Starvation = peasant grain hoarding, Industrial strikes (200,000 on strike)
  • International: Defeat = humiliation/degraded national pride

4)

  • 1/3 food supplies in Moscow
  • 1/4 calorie intake for workers
  • 12 million casualties
  • 6.5 million men mobilised, 4.6 million rifles available
  • 1.5 billion roubles spent
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Tannenberg + Masurian Lakes

1) Dates
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1)
Tannenberg: August 1914
Masurian Lakes: September 1914

2)
- World War I

3)

  • Major casualties = desertions
  • Hit to national pride

4)
Tannenburg: 70,000 casualties
Masurian Lakes: 60,000 casualties

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June Offensive

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) June, 1917

2)

3)

  • Loss of territory/soldiers
  • Attitudes turn against Prov Gov

4)
- 170,000 soldiers desert/mutiny

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Kornilov Affair

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 26-27 August, 1917

2)

3)

  • Kerensky arming Soviets = Bolsheviks seen as defenders of nation
  • Kerensky seen as weak/incapable (needed help of Soviets)
  • Bolshevik popularity grows, precipitates October Revolution
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Mutiny of the Battleship Potemkin

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) June, 1905

2)

  • Bloody Sunday
  • Russo-Japanese War

3)

  • Symbolised discontent with Tsar
  • Tsar’s supposedly most loyal subjects turn against him

4)

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Fundamental State Laws

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 23 April, 1906

2)
- Loss of Tsar’s authority from Dumas

3)

  • Re-asserted Tsar’s authority
  • Restricted Duma’s legislative authority
  • Caused conflict between Tsar and Dumas

4)

18
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Soviet Order no. 1

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 1 March, 1917

2)
- Dual Authority

3)

  • Gave Soviet control over military
  • Soviet grew more powerful than Prov Gov
  • Precipitated October Revolution

4)

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Q

Nicholas becomes Commander-in-Chief

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) August, 1915

2)
- Russia losing WWI

3)

  • Losses are blamed on Nicholas
  • Degraded Nicholas’ image further
  • Tsarina Alexandra ruling = seen as plot for German conspiracy

4)

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Q

Lenin’s return to Petrograd

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 3 April 1917

2)
- End of autocracy

3)

  • Sparked idea of overthrowing Provisional Government
  • Precipitated October Revolution

4)

  • ‘Parliamentary-bourgeois republic’
  • ‘Peace, Bread and Land’
  • ‘All power to the Soviet’
21
Q

Bloody Sunday Commemoration Strikes

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 9 January 1917

2)

  • Economic/political grievances
  • Commemoration of Bloody Sunday

3)
- Precipitated February Revolution

4)
- 150,000 workers

22
Q

Putilov Steelworks close + International Women’s Day march

1) Dates
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1)
Steelworks: 21 February 1917
Women’s Day: 23 February 1917

2)
- Economic grievances

3)

  • Soldiers in WWI mutiny/desert
  • Sparks February Revolution

4)
- 300,000 protesters

23
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Establishment of Provisional Government

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 27 February, 1917

2)
- February Revolution

3)

  • Seen as an illegitimate ruling force = days were numbered
  • Dual authority with Soviet = increased Soviet power/influence
  • Abolished class restrictions/censorship

4)
- ‘The Provisional Government was the authority without power. The Soviet was the power without authority.’

24
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Formation of Petrograd Soviet

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 27 February 1917

2)

  • February Revolution
  • 1905 Soviet

3)

  • Supported establishment of Provisional Government
  • Precipitated Tsar’s downfall

4)
- Formed of 600 soldiers/workers

25
Q

Stolypin’s Land Reforms

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) November 1906

2)

  • Power of the Peasantry
  • October Manifesto

3)

  • Appeased Peasantry
  • Reforms were never delivered

4)
- ‘No more than a breathing spell.’ (Pipes)

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