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The Russian Revolution. HWH UNIT 10 CHAPTER 14.5. Background to the Revolution. Industrialization and Modernization Revolutionary groups The “ cadets ” (Constitutional Democrats ) Western-style liberals Urban workers Peasants Mirs Kulaks Intelligentsia Populists vs . Marxists.
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The Russian Revolution HWH UNIT 10 CHAPTER 14.5
Background to the Revolution • Industrialization and Modernization • Revolutionary groups • The “cadets” (Constitutional Democrats) • Western-style liberals • Urban workers • Peasants • Mirs • Kulaks • Intelligentsia • Populists vs. Marxists
Marxists Divided Mensheviks (“softs”) • “open” party • Focus on similarities • Cooperate with liberals Bolsheviks (“hards”) • Lenin • Revolutionary elite • Purges
V.I. Lenin (1870-1924) • “Leninism” • The Party • Unions • Peasants • The Party Elite
The Revolution of 1905 The Russo-Japanese War
The Revolution of 1905 • Workers’ Soviets • The October Manifesto • The Duma • Constitutional Democrats
April, 1917 Lenin returns via the “sealed train” “Peace, Land, and Bread” “All Power to the Soviets”
Constituent Assembly (January, 1918) The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March, 1918) The Cheka The Red Army Leon Trotsky Communists in Power
Civil War, 1918-1922 • “War Communism” • Reds vs. Whites • The “Red Terror” • The Execution of the Royal Family • July, 1918
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921-27 The Role of Women “Socialist Realism”
Death of Lenin, 1924 Stalin Trotsky vs. “Socialism in One Country” Permanent Revolution