Russian Revolution

The February Revolution

• Food shortages
• Weak armies
• Strike
• Street demonstrations
• Nicholas II dethroned

February Revolution

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The Struggle for Power

• Workers and Soldiers Deputies
• Petrograd Soviet
• Disbanded tsarist police
• Removed limitations
• Removed ethnic discrimination

STRUGGLE FOR POWER (CONTINUED)

• Failed to satisfy demands
• Failed to satisfy land reforms
• Called for immediate peace

V.I Lenin

• Vladmir Ilyich Lenin
• Marxist
• Exiled into Switzerland
• Childhood scars
• Wrote political pamphlets

Lenin

OCTOBER REVOLUTION

• Lead by V.I Lenin
• Control of Petrograd Soviet
• Weak government allowed this
• Problems only solved by Soviets
• "All power to the Soviets"

October Revolution

• Lenin gathered his people
• Brought them to government
• Lenin and Bolshevik party
• Gained power
• Ended involvement in war

October Revolution

• Treaty of Brestlitovsk
• Signed with Germany
• Gave Germany 1/3 control

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