THREE REVOLUTIONS IN RUSSIA

Background
300 years of Romanov rule
Assassination of Tsar Alexander II (1881)
Alexander III (r. 1881-1894)
Tsar Nicholas II' s reign (1984-1917)
Bloody Sunday 1905
Russo-Japanese War leads to creation of Duma

Marxist Roots
First appears 1880s
Industrialization brings capitalism
1898 Plekhanov holds first RSDLP congress

Lenin's role
Execution of Lenin's brother
Lenin v. Plekhanov
Menshevik period
Exile in Siberia and Europe

Social, Economic and Political Causes
Poorly armed and led armies in WWI
Conscription of peasants
Food prices soar, food shortages
Workers protest in St. Petersburg

The First Revolution
Feb 1917 Tsar's troops fire on protesters
Czar abdicates (Mar 1917)
Provisional government put in place

Revolution#2: BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
Lenin returns from exile in Switzerland
	-peace, land and bread
Trotsky's soldiers
Worker and soldier riots
Alexander Kerensky and Kornilov's coup attempt
Red Guard triumphant

The Civil War (1918-1920)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) 
Whites v. Reds
Allied intervention
Cheka- secret police
Red victory(1920)

New Economic Policy (1921-1928)
State control over industry, transportation, banking, foreign trade
Some private enterprise
Economy restored to pre-WWI levels by 1928

The rise of Stalin (1924-1953)
Lenin's stroke (1922) and death (1924)
Trotsky's exile(1929) and assassination
NKVD- secret police
The Third Revolution
Collectivization & the first 5year plan-1928
Propaganda
The Great Terror (1930s)

International Significance: (What effect did the Russian Revolution have on the rest of the world?)
Fear of uprisings
Model for future revolutions
Comintern agitators