RUSSIA AOS 1 Flashcards
When was bloody sunday?
january 9th 1905
what was bloody sunday?
peaceful protest to approach tsar about concerns, shooting into crowds 200 casualties
Consequences of bloody sunday?
200 deaths, discontent with tsar and tsarism
what was the initial reaction to WW1?
PATRIOTISM!
nation declares loyalty to tsar
what percent of population were mobilised in the war?
8.8%
WW1: “Peasants in -
- uniform”
describe events of February revolution.
Peasants go on strike from factories in Petrograd + international women’s day movement
“give us bread”
Rodzianko warns Tsar of revolutionary conditions and urges reform
Tsar abdicates
What was the soviet order #1
(February revolution) soldiors will obey orders of new government
what were short and long term causes of the February revolution?
short: inflation/ economy, WW1, The tsar (rasputin and tsarina), rise of lenin and bolsheviks
long: discontent with Autocracy, Bloody sunday
what was the impact/outcome of the February revolution?
Tsar overthrown
soldier and sailor mutinies
dual government
What caused the release of the october manifesto?
the peasant and worker uprisings, the 1905 revolution popular unrest, strikes, violence and political
debate.
Describe what the fundamental laws meant
The Tsar reasserts his authority to dimmish the impact
of the newly elected Duma.
The Tsar alone possessed constitutional and legislative power.
what did the october manifesto promise?
social and political reforms, througbh the state dumas
when was the October manifesto published?
17 October 1905
when did Lenin return?
3rd april 1917
what did Lenins April thesis outline?
plans for how the Bolsheviks could seize power and carry out a socialist revolution
there should be no support for the Provisional Government
revolutionary quotes from Lenins return:
“PEACE LAND BREAD”
“ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS’”
describe outcomes of kornilov affair
Kerensky arms bolsheviks (40,000 riffles)
bolshevik reputation restored
keresnsky and government humiliated
describe events of the kornilov affair
general kornilov attempted to overthrow the provis gov
kerensky declared kornilov a traitor and called apon red guards to protect the capital.
how many protestors marched to the winter palace at bloody sunday?
150,000 protesters
what were the limitations of the dumas?
The Tsars legislative power
‘Supreme autocratic power belongs to the Emperor.’
what was the significance of the soldier and sailor mutinies?
took the military away from the tsar prior to the febuary revolution
assisted in October revolution, allowing bolsheviks to seize power
describe the mutiny of Potemkin
Crew held mutiny against its commanding officers and took charge of ship
very threatening to the tsar
soviet order #1
what did the Mensheviks believe?
That the capitalist stage was necessary to move into a socialist society
“bloody sunday ignited a…”
“wave of rebellion” Campell
“the events of 1905…
“were a prologue of the two revolutions of 1917” - trotsky
what was the workers involvement in the october revolution?
the Putiv Steelworks workers strike against a lack of food and Russias involvement in the war
what did robert service say about the tsars after the soldior and sailor mutinies 1905
“the mocharchys fate hung by a thread”
“in 1905….
the monarchys fate hung by a thread” - service
“in order to survive they had to keep russia at war but…
in keeping russia at war they destroyed their chances at survival” - W.H chamberlain
what did lenin say after the july days were bolsheviks were blamed and temporarily lost support?
“power can no longer be taken peacefully”
how many riffles were given to the bolsheviks during the kornilov affair?
40,000
(provisional government) “in order to survive it had to keep russia in war but…
in keeping russia at war it lost its chances of survival” - W.H chamberlain
(lenin) The man was an irrepressible leader… who said?
service
