InNo+samuelguo0801+10.20.2010

Awesomeness: media type="custom" key="7260153" width="1" height="1" This is a flow chart of the March Revolution. I made it so that it was easier to follow and maybe more interesting and more colorful than just reaing the text.

This is a picture of Lenin. He was the leader of the Bolsheviks. He was the one that stated the April Theses and encouraged the Bolsheviks to have a rebellion. He also spend alot of time in exile in multiple countries.

Notes: Russia at war The revolution of March 1917 The Provisional Government The Bolshevik Revolution of November 1918 How did the Bolsheviks come to power? What were the rumors going around in Petrograd about Alexandra and Rasputin while Nick was away? How was the March Revolution successful? How was the November Rovolution successful? Why did Kornilov revolt against Kerensky?
 * Early defeats
 * August 1914 two Russian armies attacked one German army
 * The Russians were poorly equipped and led
 * One million men without rifles and some without boots
 * In battles of tannenberg and Masurian Lakes Russian armies were wiped out
 * Six weeks in to the war Russia had lost 1 million soldiers
 * The collapse of the economy
 * In 1915 Russian economy began to collapse
 * 15.5 million people had been taken to fight and they needed workers
 * 600 factories closed because they didn’t have enough workers
 * Russia didn’t have enough transport
 * They needed railways to supply armies and townspeople
 * They didn’t have enough trains
 * Lots of food and supplied rotted away at train stations and in other parts people were starving
 * Factories closed because there weren’t trains to haul the coal
 * Dark forces destroying the throne
 * August 1915 Nick took personal command of armies
 * He left and went to army headquarters
 * Left Alexandra in control who was under influence of Rasputin
 * For 16 months she did what she liked
 * She fired ministers she didn’t like
 * Replaced them with ministers that she favored
 * Had 4 prime ministers, 5 ministers of the interior, 4 ministers of agriculture, 3 ministers of war, 2 ministers of foreign affairs
 * Because ministers changed so much, government work stopped
 * Food and ammunition were hard to acquire but it became much harder
 * Russian army deaths went over one million
 * There were rumors going around in Petrograd about Alexandra
 * She was German by birth and planned Russian defeats
 * Rasputin and she were German agents
 * One noble spoke out in Duma that dark forces were destroying the throne
 * December 1916 three nobles of Tsar killed Rasputin
 * People were really happy Rasputin was dead
 * In 1917, temperatures dropped below -35C
 * Supplied ran out and people froze
 * March 1917 in Petrograd there was a revolution
 * Wednesday 7 March
 * 20,000 steel workers were locked out of factories and they were angry
 * Thursday 8 March
 * 50 factories closed down, 90,000 workers on strike
 * International Women’s Day – lots of women outside demonstrating
 * Friday 9 March
 * 200,000 workers on strike
 * Saturday 10 march
 * 250,000 workers on strike
 * no public transport/newspapers
 * still no more food
 * Cossacks refused to attack strikers when ordered
 * Sunday 11 March
 * President of Duma, Michael Rodzianko sent telgram to Nick
 * Nick told Duma to stop meeting
 * Monday 12 March
 * 6 o’clock mutiny began
 * Sergeant shot commanding officer dead
 * Soldiers left barracks and march to center of Petrograd
 * Duma held meeting even though Nick said no
 * They set up Provisional Committee (12 men) to take over the government
 * Revolutionaries set up a Soviet, in Petrograd
 * Wanted to take over government and organize food and supplies
 * Tuesday 13 March
 * Nick sent telegran to Duma: He would share power with Duma
 * Reply was that it was too late
 * Wednesday 14 March
 * Generals sent telegram to Nick saying they didn’t support him
 * He tried to return and take control but his train was stopped by revolutionaries
 * Thursday 15 March
 * Nick 250 km away agreed to give his throne to Alexis
 * Alexis was too ill and had to crown his brother Duke Michael
 * He thought he would be unpopular like Nick so he was abdicated in a day
 * Russia was a republic but either Duma provisional committee or Petrograd Soviet had to govern.
 * Two New governments
 * The committee set up by Duma was called the Provisional Government
 * The would govern until election and they would step down
 * It was the official government
 * There was also the Petrograd Soviet
 * Elected by working people
 * The soviets in other towns listened to the Petrograd Soviet
 * Their first issue was Order No. 1
 * Soldiers have to set up committees to take control of guns, ammunition, and equipment
 * Off duty soldiers don’t salute but call their officers Mister Colonel and Mister General
 * This was obeyed in the army and navy and showed that they controlled the army
 * Lenin and the April Theses
 * Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks and was Switzerland
 * He wanted a second revolution
 * He was 2000km away from Petrograd but he was helped by Germans to get home
 * They knew he wanted trouble with provisional government
 * Gave him money and a special train
 * He got to Petrograd on 16 April 1917
 * He made a speech to Bolsheviks after he got there
 * End war with Germany
 * All land given to peasants
 * Banks nationalized
 * Their name changed to communists
 * No support given to the Provisional Government
 * Wanted to form a new government
 * This became known as the April Theses
 * This was surprising to Bolsheviks
 * He wanted new revolution but many people didn’t think the time was right
 * Jun 1917 Russian armies attacked Austria
 * Attack failed and the retreated
 * Lots of soldiers deserted and many went to Petrograd to join Bolsheviks
 * 100,000+ soldiers in the streets shouted ‘all power to soviets!’
 * They wanted Bolsheviks to take power
 * July Days
 * After three days of Alexander Kerensky, Minister of War sent troops to Petrograd and killed and wounded 400 of the mob
 * Kerensky said Germans paid Bolsheviks to cause trouble
 * Lenin ran away to Finland and avoided arrest, other Bolshevik officials were arrested
 * The Kornilov Revolt
 * Alexander Kerensky is Prime minister of provisional government
 * He then faced a challenge with the commander in chief of army Kornilov
 * He thought that he should be in charge
 * He wanted to get rid of Petrograd Soviet
 * Arrest revolutionaries
 * Wanted to keep fighting Germany
 * Kornilov had the best army in Russia wanted to get rid of Provisional Government
 * Kerensky didn’t have many troops with him
 * Kerensky allowed Bolsheviks to set up a Read Guard and defense
 * 25,000 bolsheviks armed with rifles and machine guns
 * Kornilov’s troops didn’t want to fight with fellow army so they arrested Kornilov
 * Bolsheviks became heroes because of this
 * Saved provisional government
 * Showed they were not German agents
 * Became a effective fighting force
 * Strengthened their position in elections for the Petrograd Soviet in Sept and same thing in Soviet Moscow
 * They were much more powerful and they would be able to have a second revolution
 * The state of Russia in September 1917
 * Peasants began to take control of land that they grew their food on
 * They had been waiting for Provisional government to give them land
 * More than 2000 farms farmers killed landlords and divided land among themselves
 * Kerensky sent out soldiers to punish the peasants in the countryside
 * They whipped peasants and burned their homes
 * Kerensky couldn’t find enough loyal troops to do this
 * The violence with the peasants went on
 * This delayed the harvest and caused food shortage
 * People now faced famine
 * The discpline in the army broke down and soldiers disobeyed their officers
 * Thousands of soldiers left the army each week
 * They went back to their homes to make sure they got land
 * The Bolsheviks encouraged soldiers to stop fighting
 * There was drunken people and chaos everywhere
 * The November revolution
 * October 1917 Lenin came from Finland
 * He wanted a revolution immediately
 * Bolsheviks wanted to stage an armed revolution against Prov Government
 * Leon Trotsky, president of Petrograd Soviet set up HQ in Smolny Institute, an unused school
 * He didn’t have to make plans secret, Prov Government couldn’t stop him
 * Thea rmy supports the Bolsheviks
 * The Peter and Paul fortress guards gave rifles to the Bolsheviks
 * Night 6 November the Red Guard is all armed
 * They took control of important Petrograd locations
 * 6 bridges in Neva
 * Government buildings
 * Power station
 * Railway stations
 * Prov Government had HQ in Winter Palace and guarded by army cadet’s and women’s battalion army
 * Evening 7 November
 * A cruiser, Aurora, captured by Bolsheviks, fired blank shells at winter palace
 * Peter and Paul fortresses open fired on Winter Palace
 * The Read guards stormed the winter palace
 * Cadets and Women’s battalion gave up with no fight
 * Bolsheviks controlled the capital of Russia
 * They came to power in one day
 * Eighteen people arrested
 * Two people killed
 * Questions: **

Russia went to war with Germany and suffered many losses. Supplies ran low in Russia and people went hungry. Three nobles killed Rasputin and Revolution of March happened. A Provisional government was set up, and fought for power with the Petrograd Soviets. Lenin of the Bolsheviks came back and he wanted revolution. On November 1917, they revolted and took over Petrograd and assumed power.
 * Summary: **

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