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RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION
BY NIKILESH PIDIPATHRI
ABOUT RUSSIA
● It is the largest country in the
world.
● It is the ninth-most populous
country in the world with a
population of 146 million.
● The Russian economy is the
world's ninth-largest by
nominal GDP.
● It is among the leading
producers of oil and natural
gas globally.
LIBERALS,
RADICALS &
CONSERVATIVES
LIBERALS
● They suggested to change the society
and supported the idea based on
tolerance of all religions.
● They opposed the uncontrolled
powers of dynastic rulers.
● They wanted to safeguard the rights
of individuals against governments.
● Liberals were not democrats as they
did not favour Universal Adult
Franchise and favoured voting rights
only for men.
RADICALS
● They supported the government based
on majority of country’s population.
● They opposed the privileges given to
great landowners and wealthy
factory owners.
● Many of them also supported
women’s suffragette movements.
● They supported private property but
disliked concentration of property in the
hand of few.
CONSERVATIVES
● They opposed the views of Radicals
and Liberals.
● Earlier they opposed the idea of
change the idea of change but by the
19th century, they accepted some
changes.
● They asserted that the past must
be respected.
● They wanted change but at a slower
pace.
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Rise of Socialism
Socialism with communism.
The 1905 Revolution

The First Russian Revolution.
The Incident of
Bloody Sunday
Turned Nicholas II into a public
enemy.
Rise of Socialism
● All political parties were illegal in Russia
before 1914.
● The Russian Social Democratic Workers
Party was founded in 1898 by socialists
Who respected Marx's ideas. It set up a
newspaper, mobilized workers and
organized strikes.
● Active socialists in the countryside formed
the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
● The party demanded for peasant's rights
and transfer of lands from the nobles to the
peasants.
THE 1905 REVOLUTION
● Russia was an autocracy- a system of
government by one person with absolute
power.
● Liberals in Russia campaigned to end this
Social Democrats and Socialist
Revolutionaries + peasants and workers
during the revolution of 1905 demanded
a constitution.
● Supported by Muslim ( jadidists) who
wanted to modernized Islam to lead their
societies.
THE INCIDENT OF BLOODY
SUNDAY
● When the procession of workers led
by Father Gapon reached the
Winter Palace, it was attacked by
the police & the Cossacks.
● Over 100 workers were killed and
about 300 wounded.
● The incident, known as Bloody
Sunday, started a series of events
that became known as the 1905
Revolution.
The World War I
era in Russia
takes a huge toll on the country.
The Workers’ Movement

All power to the working
people.
Revolution of Oct 1917

the Great October Socialist
Revolution.
WORLD WAR I RUSSIA
● In 1914 war broke out between two
European allies.
● Germany, Austria, Turkey (central
powers) and France, Britain and Russia.
● The War was fought outside Europe and
inside Europe.
● Russian Army lost badly in Germany
and Austria in between 1914 to 1916.
● There was over 7 million casualty.
WORKERS’ MOVEMENT
● The provisional government decided to take
strong steps against the discontent of the
workers.
● It resisted attempts by working to run
factories and began arresting leaders.
● popular demonstratives under the Bosheviks
in July 1917 were repressed.
● Peasants were encouraged by socialist
revolutionaries and seized land between July
and September 1917.
REVOLUTION OF OCT 1917
● The Russian Civil War tore Russia

apart during a three-year period.
● Russian Civil War, (1918–20), conflict in
which the Red Army successfully
defended the newly formed Bolshevik
government led by Vladimir.
● Lenin rallied against various Russian
and interventionist anti-Bolshevik
armies.
The Civil War
government's failure to maintain
stabilitygovernment’s failure to
maintain stability.
USSR and the World

The world's first constitutionally
socialist state.
THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
● Fort Sumter - first battle of the Civil War.
● Emancipation Proclamation - "end of
slavery".
● Gettysburg - important battle for the North;
turning point towards victory.
● Gettysburg Address - inspired Union
soldiers to - keep fightin.
● Appomattox Courthouse - South
surrenders and the end of the Civil War.
USSR and the World
● The idea of a state of workers inspired
many people. Communist party was
formed in many countries.
● Many non-Russians participated in
the Conference of the Peoples of
the East (1920).
● The Bolshevik founded the
'Comintern' (an international union
of the pro-Bolshevik socialist parties).
“You cannot make a
revolution in white
gloves.”
— Vladimir Lenin
SOME IMPORTANT FIGURES
NICHOLAS II VLADIMIR ALEXANDER I ALEXANDER II

LENIN
Alexander III’s son, The founder of the The Tsar who
The Russian Tsar,
Nicholas II, was the Bolshevik Party, formally abolished
or emperor, whose
tsar in power organizer of the Serfdom in 1861,
death in 1825
during the Russian October Revolution,
Revolution in 1917. and the first leader
of the Soviet Union.
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RUSSIAN

The 1905 Revolution

The Workers’ Movement

Revolution of Oct 1917

● The Russian Civil War tore Russia

USSR and the World

NICHOLAS II VLADIMIR ALEXANDER I ALEXANDER II

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