InNo+JerryL+20.10.2010

My Awesomeness This is a diagram of things about the revolution, as you can see. pretty self-explianitory.

Other Awesomeness This is a picture of the Red Guards in front of the winter palace. They had gradually absorbed the other military forces at that time (like SRs and People's will) and were the based troops of the Red Army

Russia at war, 1914-17
**Early Defeats** **The collapse of the economy** **'Dark forces destroying the throne'** August 1915: Tsar takes personal command of army
 * August 1914: Russia War with Germany
 * Hatred for Germany
 * St.Petersburg renamed Petrograd (because sounded too German)
 * 2 huge armies attack Germany ( Tannenberg & Masurian Lakes ), wiped out:
 * Badly equipped
 * Badly led
 * over 250,000 killed, injured, imprisoned.
 * End of 1914 Russia lost __1M__
 * Economic fail as war continued in 1915
 * Lack of Labour
 * 15.5M young to army
 * labour / 2
 * 600 factories close down
 * Lack of sufficient transport
 * not enough trains
 * supplies couldn't be sent to use
 * more factories closed
 * Inflation
 * money loss value
 * food price went up
 * front losing: end of 1915: 300,000 taken
 * Left Alexandra in control (//__**Under full influence of Rasputin**__//), next 16 months:
 * constantly switched ministers, halt work
 * rumor: Alexandra and Rasputin = Germans spies
 * December 1916: nobles murder Rasputin
 * next year freezing weather, no supply...REVOLUTION!!!

The revolution of March 1917
Full scale revolution in Petrograd 20,000 steel workers locked out without pay, striking 50 factories closed down, 90,000 workers strike International Women's Day: all protest together for bread 200,000 workers on strike
 * Wednesday 7 March**
 * Thursday 8 March**
 * Friday 9 March**
 * Saturday 10 March**
 * 250,000 workers on strike
 * almost nothing available
 * Cossacks refuse order
 * Sunday 11 March**
 * President of Duma Michael Rodzianko told Tsar of situation, Tsar ignores and froze Duma activity
 * Monday 12 March**
 * Mutiny in army
 * Duma took over government ( Provisional Committee )
 * Revolutionaries set up Soviet
 * Tuesday 13 March**
 * Tsar offered share of power, too late
 * Wednesday 14 March**
 * No military support in capital
 * Tsar hurry back, train cut off by revolutionaries
 * Thursday 15 March**
 * Nicholas Abdicate
 * Russia = REPUBLIC!!!

** The Provisional Government **
**Two new governments** **Lenin and the April Theses** **The Kornilov Revolt**
 * Provisional Government: temporary government until elections, official.
 * Petrograd Soviet: workers and soldiers' Deputies.
 * protect interest of workers and soldiers
 * headquarters of Soviets all over Russia
 * had SRs, Mensheviks, and Bolsheviks
 * wait for chance to make changes
 * co-operate with other gov
 * **Order No.1** : to armies: (by Petrograd Soviet )
 * must set up committees in control of military supplies
 * change names less noble for officers
 * Showed soviet control of army
 * reject co-operation
 * went back to Russia with help of Germans
 * made speech: ( April Theses )
 * end war
 * Soviet power ONLY
 * Bolsheviks change name --> //**Communist**//
 * shocked members
 * July Days
 * soldiers retreated from front and joined Bolsheviks
 * "All power to Soviets"
 * after three days Alexander Kerensky (Minister of War) sent loyal troops and ended riot
 * Lenin exiled again
 * Commander-in-Cheif Kornilov wanted power
 * attempted to riot with better troops than Kerensky
 * Kerensky asked Bolsheviks for help
 * Bolsheviks made Red Guards
 * army refused to fight with workers
 * Kornilov arrested
 * Bolsheviks became powerful
 * became disciplined fighting force
 * won majority votes in all Soviets
 * planed 2nd revolution....

** The Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 **
September-October 1917: Kerensky and Provisional Government start to lose authority: __signs of rebellion__ **The state of Russia in September 1917** **The November Revolution**
 * Summer: Peasants took over in lands after failed promises from government
 * more than 2000 killed landlords
 * others took church and Tsar land
 * K tried to stop this
 * not enough loyal troops
 * riot in countryside + original food shortage = FAMINE threat in winter
 * Army discipline breaking down:
 * No.1: disobedience
 * thousand ditching army to care for farm lands
 * Bolsheviks persuading front to stop
 * CHAOTIC
 * October 1917:
 * Lenin back!!!
 * Immediate revolution
 * //Leon Trotsky// (B chairman of Petrograd Soviet)
 * drew up plans in "school" ( Smolny Institute )
 * had all support of armies
 * took Petrograd in one night
 * overthrew Provisional Government with minimal lost.

Summary Russia got into war and problems started to hit Russia from both in and out. While Nicholas was away to command troops, the government was overthrown as it was too corrupted and people were suffering. After the two new governments were established people started to fight for authority. The Bolsheviks failed at first but gradually won support and took over with the comeback of Lenin!

**Questions** What happened to Russia's economy and why? What was Order No.1? Describe the way the Bolsheviks come into power. What does this tell you? List the events that led to the March revolution. Define the April Thesis.