Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Russian Revolution
- The February Revolution
- The republic was proclaimed
in 1917, it was headed by a
provisional government
- The new government was
dominated by the bourgeois
parties, that made a series of
political and social reforms
- They also wanted to remain
committed to their allies in
the war.
- This caused popular discontent,
and the Sovietics began to demand
the dimmisal of the government
- The forces that had united
the tsar rule began to break
up
- The October Revolution
- Most of Sovietics supported the
Bolsheviks. Their leader was
Lenin that published his news
ideas in the April Theses.
- Lenin wanted to establish a government of
worker and peasant Soviets and to sign a
peace treaty with germany.
- The Bolsheviks created their own
armed militia, The Red Guards
- On 25 october 1917 the rebels
occupied Petrograd and the revolution
quickly spread to Moscow and
industrial regions.
- The Second All-Russian Congress of
Sovietics proclaimed a workers
government led by Lenin
- In November 1917, elections were
won by the Bolshevicks and Lenin
disolved the Assembly and put an
end to political pluralism.
- The new government decreed that the land
was expropiated to distribute among the
peasants and workers committes were given
control of factories.
- Civil War and The Formation of USSR
- In 1918those who supported the return of tsarism
or the maintenance of a liberal political system
took up arms against the Soviet government.
- The White Army confronted with the Red Army
- The Civil War lasted three years and brought great
misery to the people. In 1921, the Red Army won the
war.
- The USSR is based on the Sovietics
workers deputies, which developed as a
result of overthrowing the power and the
conquest of dictatorship
- The USSR is the socialist system
of economy as a result of the
abolition of the capitalism
system.