Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Russian Revolution
- Unhappy Citizens
- Workers
- Female workers protest because of lack of bread
- Rationing
- Grew Louder & Larger as rumors spread: men joined in. Protest became
more about the removal of the tsar
- Authorities brought in soildiers
- Soildiers contributed to the peasents & citizens
'Peasents and workers in unfiorm'
- Had to bring in the Tsar
- FEB 1917
- WWI
- Tsar away at the home front
- 'Politically an idiot'
- Situation in capital was getting out of hand
- Tsar ordered the troops to shoot the
protestents if they do not disperse : did not end the protest
- Army wasn't happy about shooting the protestors: chief officer has lost control
- kronstadt
- key naval base
- Sailors treated no better than animals
- supressed war between sailors & officers
- protested: officers prisoned / executed
- After the abdication
- Direct form of democracy
- Development of their ownlaws
- the Tsar
- Weakened power: No inherent heir
- Abdicated the throne
- 'Bloodless Revolution'
- new ideas
- Provisional Government
- Still wanted to take war with Germany
- Lenin
- Revolutionary
- stubborn / believed what he said was all true
- "Peace, Bread, Land"
- People did not want war: went to the streets to protest. Asked help in kronstadt
- Aim: Over throw the potential gov.
- Demonstration turned bloody: the gov. shot at the crowd
- JUL 1917
- Overthrow by 'force'
- Bolsheviks planned an armed revolution
- OCT 1917
- Seize the winter palace (25th)
- No plan of the palace
- End of the provisional government
- 'All power to the soviets' = Bolsheviks
- Promise of a new parliment assembly: democratic form of government
- jeered when other parties were talking
- 'thought he shouldn't share the power with an another political party
- executed / eliminated any parties or people that was dangerous to him
- 'CIVIL WAR'
- kronstadt sailors
- Bolshevik
- communist