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I really want to read that Macbeth Essay. So I have to write stuff, erm... Ya I know this sucks... I'm just writing what's off the top of my head because I don't want to put an essay of my own on here. Cheese and stuff... and the the Russian Revolution: • After defeat by Japan in 1905, and the Revolution of 1905, Russia was unprepared militarily and technologically for the total war of World War I. Russia had no competent military leaders.
• Czar Nicholas II took charge even though he had a lack of ability and training.
• Russia industry was unable to produce the weapons needed for the army.
• Russia suffered incredible losses
• Autocratic ruler, Czar Nicholas II relied on the army and bureaucracy to hold up his regime. Nicholas II was further cut off when Grigory Rasputin started to influence his wife, Alexandra
• Alexandra made all of the important decisions after consulting with Rasputin.
• Rasputin often interfered with government affairs
• Russian people grew more and more upset with the czarist regime after series of military and economic disasters. They assassinated Rasputin in December 1916.
• February (March) Revolution: working-class women led a series of strikes in Petrograd helping to change Russian history. Inflation
• The Duma established the provisional government, which consisted mainly of middle-class Duma representatives.
• Czar Nicholas II abdicated (Stepped down)
• The Provisional government, led by Aleksander Kerensky, decided to stay in World War I; huge mistake; satisfied neither the workers nor the peasants who wanted to end the war.
• Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution. Lenin believed that only violent revolution could destroy the capitalist system.
• Lenin’s arrival in Russia opened up a new stage of the Russian Revolution. Lenin maintained that the soviet of soldiers, workers, and peasants were ready-made instruments of power. He believed that the Bolsheviks should work toward gaining control of these groups and then use them to overthrow the provisional government.
• The Bolsheviks reflected the discontent of the people. They promised an end to the war. They also promised to redistribute all land to the peasants, to transfer factories and industries from capitalists to committees of workers, and to transfer government power from the provisional government to the soviets.
• On March 3, 1918, Lenin signed the Treat of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and gave up eastern Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and the Baltic provinces.
• Many people were opposed to the new Bolshevik (Communist) government. These people not only included groups loyal to the czar but also liberal and anti-Leninist socialists.
• The Allies sent thousands of troops to various parts of Russia in the hope of bringing Russia back into the war. They gave material aid to anti-Communist forces.
• The Communist, or Red, Army fought on many fronts against these opponents.
• The first serious threat to the Communists came from Siberia. An anti-Communist, or White, force attacked and advanced almost to the Volga River before being stopped.
• The Communist regime regained control over the independent nationalist governments in Georgia, Russian Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
• The royal family was another victim of the civil war. After the czar abdicated, he, his wife, and their five children had been held as prisoners. Members of the local soviet murdered the czar and his family and burned their bodies in a nearby mine shaft.
• Lenin and the Communists triumphed in the civil war over such overwhelming forces because the Red Army was a well-disciplined fighting force; because the organizational genius of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky reinstated the raft and insisted on rigid discipline. Soldier who deserted or refused to obey orders were executed on the spot. Also, the disunity of the anti-Communist forces weakened their efforts. Also, Communist revolutionary terror helped them win. A new Red secret police–known as the Cheka–began a Red Terror. Aimed at destroying all those who opposed the new regime, the Red Terror added an element of fear to the Communist regime. Lastly, foreign armies on Russian soil enabled the Communists to appeal to the powerful force of Russian patriotism.
• By 1921, the Communists were in total command of Russia. The Communist regime had transformed Russia into a centralized state dominate by a single party.
• The state was also largely hostile to the Allied Powers, because the Allies had tried to help the Communists’ enemies in the civil war.