1. Russian Revolution
Antonio Rodrigo
I.E.S. Llanes (Sevilla)
The Lenin comrade wash
up the world of rubbish

2. Russian Revolution
Economic causes:
. Peasant’ desire for land.
. Poor and hungry
Political causes:
. Autocracy (Tsar)
. World War I
. Charismatic leaders such
as Lenin and Trotsky

3. The Romanov Family
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Ruled Russia for 300 years
Tsar Nicholas II
Wife of Nicholas II (Alexandra) was German born

4. Russo-Japanese War
(1904-05)
Is the result of the Russian
expansionist in the East; but
resulted in a humiliating defeat
for Russia. This war marked the
first time any Asian power had
defeated a European power in a
real war. With the defeat, Japan
emerged as a major power in the
east and, in Russia, people lost
confidence in the old regime.

5. Bloody Sunday. (1905)
Czarist troops open fire on a peaceful
demonstration of workers in St
Petersburg. January 9, 1905;
marchers carried a petition to Tsar
Nicholas II asking for higher wages, a
shorter work day, better working
conditions, a legislative assembly,
and universal manhood suffrage.
In reaction, Nicholas II ordered his
guard to fire into the unarmed crowd;
when news of one hundred dead and
hundreds more wounded escaped,
public opinion almost universally
turned against the old regime.

6. The World War I
• Nicholas II goes to the front to personally take charge
• 1915 over 2 million Russians die on the front
• Soldiers do not sufficient rifles, ammunition or medical care

7. March Revolution
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Marchers through the streets shouting “Bread, bread, bread”
Troops refused to fire on demonstrators
Duma set up provisional government (Kerensky)
Russia continued in WWI
Czar abdicated

8. Wladimir Ilich Lenin
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin adapts Marxist
ideas to Russian conditions.
He was exiled and Germany
helped Lenin return to Russia.
• Lenin was a revolutionary Russian
politician, founder of the Soviet
Union and the first President after
the Russian revolution of 1917.

9. Bolsheviks – November Revolution
• Bolshevik means “majority”
• “Peace, land, and bread”
• Red Guards – armed factory workers joined munitions
sailors from the Russian fleet in attacking provisional
government
• Overthrew provisional government of Kerensky
• New symbol of government – Red flag with entwined
hammer and sickle symbolized union between peasants
and workers
• Bolsheviks renamed communists

10. Soviet Union
After Lenin's death in
1924, Stalin and
Trotsky fought for
power. Stalin ordered
his death and was as
only the new Soviet
Union leader
Leon Trotsky

11. A Federal State
consisting of many
republics with Russia as
a Center.
The New Soviet Union
(1922-1989)
A centrally-planned
economy. Most
companies were Stateowned
Concentration of power in
the hands of the Communist
Party, in its general
Secretary, and the Supreme
Soviet, equivalent to a
Parliament.