Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”THE HOME FRONT War causes much suffering entire country mobilized patriotism limited & waning scarcities of necessities mass inflation strikes and protests further loss of confidence in tsarist govt.THE FIRST WORLD WARTsar & Grand Duke Nikolai NikolaevichGrigorii RasputinFemale soldiersFEBRUARY REVOLUTION Increasing unrest International Women’s Day: Feb. 24/March 7 Women’s protest joined by workers & soldiersTHE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917 Tsar abdicates ending 300 years of Romanov ruleTHE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS “DUAL POWER” Creation of Provisional Government Establishment of SovietsPetrograd Soviet of Workers’ & Soldiers’ DeputiesProvisional GovernmentAlexander KerenskyTHE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS Provisional Government has many problems the war general chaos the peasants awaiting Constituent AssemblyPro-Soviet demonstration1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death the SovietsTHE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917RUSSIA BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS “All power to the Soviets” “July Days” “The Kornilov Affair”General Lavr Kornilov formation of Red Guards Bolsheviks’ platform: “Land, Bread, and Peace”THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION The Bolshevik Plan establish Military Revolutionary Committee Lenin argues for Oct. 25 action Grigorii Zinoviev & Lev Kamenev oppose planTHE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION The Final Act Red Guards, soldiers, sailors take control of Petrograd, Oct 24-25 (Nov 6-7) Take Winter Palace & arrest Provisional
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