Russian Revolution Flashcards
Revolution of 1906
Czar Nicholas 2
,grigori rasputin was murdered
Loss in Russo-Japanese war + how they opened fire on the crowd during Bloody Sunday caused the revolution
March revolution 1917
Wanted bread and peace
Czar abdicated
New- Alexander keransky
Liberal reforms but continue the war
Lenin and Bolshevik takeover
Lenin-> influenced by Karl Marx
Bolsheviks radical communists
November revolution 1917
Bolsheviks defeated the provisional government they took Russia out of the war and redistributed land
Civil war (ends 1921)
Fought against the white army (non-communists + allies) not United
Lenin’s new economic policy
Economy was devastated people were starving -> NEP hybrid between capitalism and communism (new economic policy)