Russian Revolution
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- International Women’s Day (3/8/1917)
- Execution of Nicholas II (7/17/1918)
- October Revolution (10/24/1917)
- New Government!
- Our new government is “dictatorship of the proletariat”.
- We want new government!
- Peasants, workers, soldiers exhausted from privation caused by WWI marched on St. Petersburg to protest their living conditions. Over one week, more than a thousand people were killed. Protests grew all over the Russia until Nicholas II had to step down.
- Civil War (3/3/1918)
- Nicholas II and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks.
- New Economy Policy (5/15/1921)
- Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks overthrow of the provisional government and formed a new government, a “dictatorship of the proletariat”. Lenin’s message is peace, bread, land for every citizen.
- Stalin vs. Trotsky (October 1926)
- He’s a traitor!
- Bolsheviks had signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to get Russia out of WWI. But this action anger the people in provisional government, so they start the “White Movement” against the Bolsheviks. To fight with the provisional government, Trotsky built the Lola’s red army and targeted the provisional government with secret policy called chekha. Stalin however, also played a big part in the civil war.
- The Reds will win!
- We want food, we are hungry!
- The Whites will win!
- A few year before Lenin’s death, he launches a new policy to increase unrest caused by War Communism. First, some peasants are allowed to trade produce for profit. Second, some traders can set up small businesses.
- So good policy, we love it!
- Stalin, the Secretary of the Communist State. Leon Trotsky, the leader of Red Army. Stalin convinces others that Trotsky was a traitor so that nothing will threaten him and he can usurp the throne of Russia. After Stalin had got absolute power, he had Trotsky exiled from Russia to Mexico. Later, Stalin send someone to assassinate Trotsky.
- No! I’m not!
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