Lecture 13:  Russian Revolution

 

I.                       Announcements and Questions

A.      case study due November 13

B.     final study guide will soon be available

C.     Questions

1.       What caused the Russian revolution?

2.       What was the relationship with the Russian revolution and WWI?

3.       Was ideology a central motivation to the Russian Revolution?

II.                   Causes of the Russian Revolution (1917)

A.     failures of the 1905 revolution/political crises

B.     political views and desires

C.     Economic Concerns

D.     WWI

III.                Russian Revolution

A.     February days (February 1917)[1]

B.     creation of new and competing forms of government

1.       Provisional Government

2.       Soviets

3.       peasants

C.     Experienced ideological divisions

1.       Lenin

2.       Mensheviks

D.     Experienced political failures

E.      Bolshevik Revolution November 1917

1.       New government

2.       Still dissatisfaction

F.      outbreak of civil war

G.     Creation of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Questions for Sections

What are the similarities/differences between the Russian Revolution (1917) and the French Revolution of 1789? The Russian Revolution (1917) and the 1848 Revolutions?

Was the Russian Revolution an unlawful coup or a popular revolution?

Can we divide the Russian revolution into phases?  If so, what would those phases look like? 

What kind of government does Lenin call for in his proclamation?

What are the resolutions adopted by the Soviet Congresses?

 

For next lecture: Who is concerned about the masculinization of women and why

 

Terms

Russian Revolution (1917)

Pogroms

Bolsheviks

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ÒLeninÓ

Mensheviks

Socialist Revolutionaries

February days

Duma

Soviets

April Theses

ÒLand, Bread, PeaceÓ

Communists

Bolsheviks

Red Army

Òred terrorÓ

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

 



[1]   (March in European calendar:  differed by 13 days)