Causes of Bolshevik Rev

A) POLITICAL CAUSES:

 Ended absolute power of czars & pogroms

 Middle class wanted a voice in the government

B) ECONOMIC CAUSES:

 Peasants want the nobles’ land

 Factory workers want better conditions

C) SOCIAL CAUSES:

 Various nationalities want to end Russification

D) MILITARY CAUSES:

 Soldiers were poorly equipped to fight WWI

 People want peace, end of humiliation

 Examples; Russo-Japanese War, WWI

Effects

A) Communism appeals to soldiers, workers and peasant b/c of Lenin’s promise of:
L,P, B…

LAND, PEACE, and BREAD

B) Red Terror= execution of thousands of nobles to prevent a counter-revolution

 REDS= communists who crush opposition

 WHITES= former czarist generals, noble and middle class

C) Fear of Communist uprising throughout the world

D) New Economy & Gov’t in Russia:

 Economy= Command Economy

 Government= Communist

Communist Ideologies
 A) Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels- Communist Manifesto – Proletariat will rise up
and revolt against the bourgeoisie and create a classless society!!!

B) Vladimir Lenin- leader of the Communist Revolution and government from

1917-1924

 New Economic Policy(NEP)= mix of command and capitalist economy…

command=nationalized industries; capitalism= farmers keep the surplus
crops

 Lenin established a one party government= Communist Party; only party

members could run for office, party enforced it’s will through the military and
a secret police

 By 1922, Lenin and the Communists had gained control over much of the old
Russian empire. The government then created the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (U.S.S.R.) also called The Soviet union- Russia controlled the other
states.

Power Struggle

 After Lenin’s death a struggle for control of the government exists between
Trotsky(Defense Minister) and Joseph Stalin (First Secretary)

 Stalin emerges on top and has Trotsky assassinated in Mexico.

 Stalin will control the Soviet Union from 1924-1953

Stalin’s Russia

1. Eliminated all opposition

2. Collective Farms:

 Took private land away from the peasants

 Farms are owned and operated by the government

 Hoped it would increase production= failed

 Increased control over the peasants

This led to an uprising- millions will be executed or exiled to Siberia

3. FIVE YEAR PLANS:

 Plan to change Russia from an agricultural to industrial economy

 Designed to create HEAVY Industry= develop basic industries

  Most of government spending is on military

RESULT: not concerned with light industry…leads to a lack of consumer

goods and choices

Stalin’s Government

TOTALITARIANISM

 Reign of terror and intimidation

 Use of propaganda, censorship, and secret police

 Glorified himself

 Believed to have killed 70,000,000 people!!! ):

Life in a Totalitarian State

Causes of Bolshevik Rev

A) POLITICAL CAUSES:

 Ended absolute power of __________& _________________

 Middle class wanted a ____________in the government

B) ECONOMIC CAUSES:

 Peasants want the nobles’ _________

 Factory workers want better _______________________

C) SOCIAL CAUSES:
  Various nationalities want to end __________________

D) MILITARY CAUSES:

 Soldiers were_________________ equipped to fight WWI

 People want peace, end of _________________________

 Examples; Russo-Japanese War, WWI

Effects
A) Communism appeals to soldiers, workers and peasant b/c of Lenin’s
promise of: L,P, B…

__________________________________________________________

B) Red Terror= execution of thousands of __________________to prevent a

counter-revolution

 REDS= __________________who crush opposition

 WHITES= former czarist generals, ___________________________________

C) Fear of Communist uprising throughout the world

D) New Economy & Gov’t in Russia:

 Economy= __________________________

 Government= ______________________

Communist Ideologies
A) Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels-__________________________– Proletariat will
rise up and revolt against the bourgeoisie and create a classless
society!!!

B) _____________________- leader of the Communist Revolution and

government from 1917-1924

 New Economic Policy(NEP)= mix of _____________________economy…

command=nationalized industries; capitalism= farmers keep the
surplus crops
  Lenin established a ____________government= Communist Party; only
party members could run for office, party enforced it’s will through
the military and a secret police

 By 1922, Lenin and the Communists had gained control over much of
the _______________empire. The government then created the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics ________________also called The Soviet Union-
Russia controlled the other states.

Power Struggle
 After Lenin’s death a struggle for control of the government exists
between ___________(Defense Minister) and Joseph _____________(First
Secretary)

 Stalin emerges on top and has _______________assassinated in Mexico.

 Stalin will control the Soviet Union from __________________

Stalin’s Russia
1. Eliminated all opposition

2. Collective Farms:

 Took private land away from the _______________

 Farms are ____________and operated by the government

 Hoped it would increase production= __________

 Increased control over the peasants

This led to an uprising- millions will be_______________ or exiled to Siberia

3. FIVE YEAR PLANS:

 Plan to change Russia from an ____________________to industrial

economy

 Designed to create ______________________= develop basic industries

 Most of government spending is on ______________

 RESULT: not concerned with light industry…leads to a lack of

consumer goods and choices
Stalin’s Government
TOTALITARIANISM

 Reign of terror and _________________

 Use of propaganda,__________________ , and secret police

 Glorified himself

 Believed to have killed ____________________people!!! ):

Life in a Totalitarian State