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Describe 1900 Russia….What problems – political, social, industrial, military – existed at time.
The gap between the rich and the poor was huge, the serbs who made up most of russia were surpressed, forced to work at farms, getting no freedom. Not industries, waste land. big armys but not many resources or transporttion. Autocracy
Examine the Tsars and the policies implemented. How or why might Tsardom be a cause of Revolution?
All the tsars contributed to the rev in some way, first gave freedom but also dept, second reformed people if they were no russian, which caused the serbs to hate them, and third had no idea what he was doing and made the epople respect him less, and killed many people indirectly.
Examine the various political parties that emerged in 20 th century Russia. What did they want to achieve?
Look at terms to know
What challenges did Tsar Nicholas II face when he assumed the crown in 1894.
The people, desicions, his father did not teach him anything. unprepared,
Examine the causes of the 1905 Revolution. Why did the 1905 Revolution fail to topple the Tsar?
support, the military, not many people opposing teh tsar
What were some of the reforms implemented by Stolypin in the interwar years?
Stolypin land reform, (1906–17), measures undertaken by the Russian government to allow peasants to own land individually. Its aim was to encourage industrious peasants to acquire their own land, and ultimately to create a class of prosperous, conservative, small farmers that would be a stabilizing influence in the countryside and would support the autocracy.
Despite reforms, many segments of the population within Russia were still dissatisfied. Explain.
By the end of 1916 no more than 20 percent of the peasant households had title to their land, although fewer (some 10 percent) had received consolidated plots. The reform did not transform the peasantry into the bulwark of support that the autocracy needed; and during 1917 peasants everywhere participated in the revolutions, seizing properties belonging to the Stolypin farmers.
Describe some of the challenges the Russian government faced with the Great War.
resources to fight the war, losses in tannberg missurain lakes, poland, led by inexprenced nichoals II which made the people respect him less, and reovlt.
strain on workers econmy, immerants will have to work the farms since russians will be at war, production lowers. Also the need of horses in the war will lower productions lacks fuel.
And the leader is rasputin which is a nobody which will not go will not go well
Describe the March Revolution of 1917. What were its causes and what were the effects?
Begins with spontaneous bread riot in Petrograd
Munitions workers go on strike
Marches sweep through cities call for down with Tsar
Armies returning refuse to follow orders – join protestors
Petrograd Soviet set up to deal with dissention
Duma calls on Provisional Government to be formed
Government calls for Abdication of the Tsar
Political Parties work with Government – form Provisional Govt
Examine why democracy failed to take root in Russia. In other words, why did the PG fail?
Keeps Russian in the war as result of Allies
Land reform and improvement to economy not made (struggles)
War conditions do not improve – desertions and shortages
Government still seen as dominated by aristocracy
Made up of many political parties that can not agree
Lacked armed force that could maintain order – see Order no 1
See growth of Soviets in cities and support from soldiers
Soviet control over trains, communications and post offices
Made several bad decisions- sweeping freedoms, equips Red Guard
How were the Bolsheviks able to seize power by November of 1917?
Well organized with strong leadership
Extensive support – many supported
Clearly defined program that appealed to broad base
Calls for power to soviets, end to provisional government
Simple slogan - peace, land and bread
Encouraged popular revolt I town and countryside
Exploits weakness of provisional government
What. Steps of actions did Lenin take to create a single party state in the USSR?
lead the boshlivks, took over goverment, won the civil war
Lenin’s Red Army eventually won Russia’s civil war. In 1922, a treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus (now Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) formed the Union of Soviet Republics (USSR).
Outline the causes of the Russian Civil War. Why were the Reds able to win?
