InNo+hyundoj2013+10.18.10+(Part+2+Notes)

Part 2 Notes  Hyun do Jun =__**Awesome Part** __= <- This is a picture of Rasputin's dead body. <-This is a diagram that I made to show major important events that occurred in Part 2 French Revolution. =__**Notes** __= =War and Revolution = **Russia at war, 1914-17**  -Russia went to war in August 1914.  -All over Russia there were patriotic demonstrations in support of the Tsar. **Early defeats**  -Two huge Russian armies attacked Germany at the end of August 1914.  -In two battles, at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes, both Russian armies were wiped out.  -At the end of 1914, Russia lost one million men. **The Collapse of the economy**  -The first problem was lack of worker, all the young man have taken to the war, about 600 factory due to lack of worker, and the agriculture stopped. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -The second problem that Russia was facing was the transportation, since Russia was so big, the main transport for supply was the railway, but there wasn't enough coal and people are facing hunger because their were no food for people. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -And, the third problem was inflation. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Dark forces destroying the throne** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Tsar Nicholas lets his wife Alexandra in charage of the government in Petrograd, which was under the influence of Rasputin. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Since minister have been exchanged in rapid pace, and supply was short of number, and the casualties are outnumbered. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -The rumor spread that Alexandra and Rasputin was German agent working to destroy Russia. =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**The Revolution of March 1917** = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -In 1917 conditions in Russia, is getting worse and worse, Many people wanted to overthrew Tsar Nicholas. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -20,000 workers from the company Putilov steel have revolt. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -50 factories have closed down and 90,000 workers went out strike <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -More than half of the working class is on strike, going against police and asking for their demand. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -The president of Duma Michael Rodzianko, sent the Telegram to the Tsar which indicates the seriousness of the strike to Tsar. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -How the transport was broken, troops shooting all over. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Duma held the meeting, it set up the Privisional Committee intentions take over the government. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Nicholas move to 250 km from petrograd, and give the throne to Alexis, but no one take over the position of king. =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Provisional Government = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Two new governments** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Russia have set a new government with twelve-man committee that’s from Duma, called themselves Provisional government, runs shortly before the elect. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Many of the 2500 deputies in the Petrograd Soviet were revolutionaries, especially SRs and Mensheviks. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Lenin and the April Theses** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Lenin disagreed with the revolutionaries who co-operated with the Provisional Government. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -He wanted to get back to Russia to organize a second revolution. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -The April Theses were a great surprise to the Bolsheviks. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Lenin was telling them to start a second revolution, but many of them thought that the time was not yet right. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**The Kornilov Revolt** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Alexander Kerensky now became the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Kerensky allowed the Bolsheviks to set up a defense force called the Red Guards. =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -During September and October 1917 Kerensky and the Provisional Government gradually lost their authority. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Peasants rebelled. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Soldiers in the army refused to fight the Germans.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-﻿In October 1917, Lenin returned to Petrograd from his hiding place in Finland.
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Red Guards were ready and started taking control of 6 bridges across River Neva, government buildings, power stations +railway stations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Bolsheviks were in power after one day of rebellion, 18 people arrested and 2 killed.

=__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Summary** __= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Part 2, many problems were rising, and people started spreading rumors about Alexandra and Rasputin being German agents working inside of Russia to destroy it. A Provisional Government was set up by the Duma, and revolutionaries set up a Soviet, and there were conflits between them, with Lenin, and Kornilov, and Kerensky as different leaders. Lenin comes back from Switzerland to proclaim the April Theses, and the Army General tried to overthrow the Provisional Government, which was starting to lose authority.And the revolution continues...

=__**Questions**__= 1. How did Rasputin die? 2. What were some difficulties that Russia faced during 1914-1917? 3. What influence did Lenin gave to the Petrograd Soviets, and how does he influenced the second rebellion? 4. What things did April Theses include? 5. In which year did the revolutionaries overthrew Tsar?

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