Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Russian Revolution 1917
- October Revolution
- Led by the Soviets and the Bolsheviks
- Russia pulled out of WW1
- Civil War
- Soviet sponsored and assisted Communist movements
- Cadets: dictatorship of the proletariat
- Important figures
- Lenin
- April Theses
- Stalin
- 1924: came to power
- Leon Trotsky
- Head of Revolutionary Military Committee
- Commissar of foreign affairs
- February Revolution
- WW1
- Caused food shortages
- Not enough workers
- Failure of Tsar Nicholas
- Led army; blamed for defeats
- Rasputin in charge of govt
- Soldiers mutiny
- Duma
- Russia legislature 1905-17
- Provisional government