RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

THE FIRST REVOLUTION

• In February 1917 Russia lost faith in leader Nicholas II
• He was removed and replaced by a provisional government
• February 1917 the revolution started
• Russian economy remained defective
• It was a period of rioting and strikes

FIRST REVOLUTION 2

• The Russian people overthrew the monarchy
• Replaced with temporary government with free elections
• Russias change to democratic form meant that Wilson could
• claim the Allies were fighting a war of democracy against autocracy

FIRST REVOLUTION

• Members of the imperial parliament or Duma assumed control
• of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government

NICHOLAS II

• The emperor who led Russia in the years leading up to the revolution
• Last Tzar of Russia
• He personally witnessed terrorist assassinat of his grandfather
• He became emperor in 1894
• As he grew weaker Valdemar Lenin became most powerful figure in Russia

RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL

• November 1917 the Bolsheviks, group of communist, overthrew
• the democratic government established in March 1917
• Vladimir Lenin the leader wanted to end Russian particpation in the war
• so they can focus on energies and resources and setting up a new communist
• state. They left the war in December, in March he signed the treat of Brest litovek

BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

• The Bolshevik party was led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the
• Provisional Government
• The Bolshevik appointed themselves as leaders of various governments,
• Ministries and seized control of the countryside

VLADIMIR LENIN

• Perhaps Seven Powers Gave Lenin An Opportunity
• He was born April 22 1870
• Lenin suffered a stroke in May 1922
• Then died a year later from another stroke