Really Radical Russian Revolution Review

Terms - https://quizlet.com/201008045/russian-revolution-flash-cards/

Background: basic ideas on impact of geography

structure of society
popular perception of the czar

Czars: Compare the actions of Alexander II with Alexander III

How did freedom for the serfs really work out?
Alexander II - Serfs became more broke after the freedom BUT he did
free them
Alexander III - Rejected the reform that his father wanted to do
Nicholas II Why was he incompetent?
5 Nails
1. Losing To Japan
2. Bloody Sunday
3. The Dumas
4. Impact of WWI
5. Rasputin

March Revolution Causes/Events/Effects

+why did Nicholas II abdicate
Had his family as hostages lost control of military
+who took over the government thereafter
His brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich in actuality the
provisional govt
+why did this new govt fail to win popular support
Struggled to keep control stayed in WWI
October/March Revolution Causes/Events/Effects
March Revolution
Causes
Nicholas was away leading the war
Situation in St.Petersburg became more worse
Food, Fuel, and battlefield disasters
Events
Workers began to strike
Soldiers began to desert their posts
Effects
Czar was forced to abdicate his power
Duma sets up a provisional government
October Revolution
Causes
Bolsheviks returned to spring 1917
Factory workers who were treated badly wanted a change
 Events
Lenin and his followers began a takeover of St.Petersburg
Faced little oppositions in taking over government buildings
Effects
Ended private ownership
Distributed land to peasants
Workers were given control of factories and mines
Eventually came to be called communism
Russian Civil War Causes/Sides
Causes
The October Revolution
Sides
Red communists vs. White czar loyalists
Lenin NEP Why?/What?/Effects
Allowed peasants to sell their surplus crops
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Government kept control over major industries, banks, and communications
In theory political power and the means of production belonged to communist
party
Stalin who was he?
Was an official under Lenin
- how did he maintain control
- what were his economic policies

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Cold War - what?

Why? +policies towards Germany after the war
Who were the two sides?

Fall of the Soviet Union

-Gorbachev - glasnost & perestroika
-Strategic Defense Initiative
-Afghanistan
-other economic, nationalistic and political reasons