WWI, Russian Revolution, and Creation of Communist Russia
1. CHAPTER 27 Section 1: Setting the Stage for War Section 2: World War I: A New Kind of War Section 3: The Russian Revolution Section 4: The Terms of Peace Section 5: Creating a “New” Europe World War I and the Russian Revolution
2. SECTION 1 Ch 18.3 Bell Ringer: What events or circumstances led to the Russian Revolution and the creation of the Communist Party? Setting the Stage for War
3. SECTION 1 Setting the Stage for War … covered one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, and was populated by almost 150 million people of more than a hundred different nationalities.
8. SECTION 1 Setting the Stage for War 6th June 1906: In a cartoon called 'Peril!' in Punch , Liberty says to the Tsar, 'Give him his head, it's your only chance, and mine!'
9. With the overthrow of the czar, a temporary gov’t was set up until a constitutional assembly could be elected. SECTION 1 Setting the Stage for War While the new rules were trying to restore order, another group worked for more radical change.
10. SECTION 1 Setting the Stage for War Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies … organized when unrest began in Russia Soviet = council The leaders were socialists. Radical members called for immediate peace & land reforms. The provisional gov’t opposed both.
11. SECTION 1 Setting the Stage for War Two factions fought for control of the soviets. Mensheviks Bolsheviks
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13. SECTION 1 Setting the Stage for War 7 Nov 1917 – the October Revolution The Bolsheviks overthrew the Constitutional Assembly because they did NOT have a majority in it.