1. Galaxy Pham, Chynna Fong
Ms. Kritzeck
English2A/ 3 rd period
11/24/13

2.  A series of revolutions that took place in Russia, in
which
- First revolution: January 1905
- Second revolution: February 1917
- Third revolution: October 1917

3.  A crowd of 150,000 workers, led by a Russian Orthodox
Priest Father Gapon, protested
-Took place on January 22, 1905
A)Tsar’s Winter Palace at St. Petersburg
-Protested due to food shortage and civil unrest
-Didn’t mean to create a political reforms
A) wanted help from tsar, Nicholas II
a) improved lifestyle and working conditions

4.  Troops fired at the protesters
-protesters were defenseless
-several hundreds of protesters died
 Created series of reform movements:
-Strikes
-Riots
-Assassinations
-Peasant outbreaks

5. The Russian
Revolution of
1905

6. The Winter
Palace

7.  February 23, 1917, Petrograd (St. Petersburg)
- 90,000 women workers marched through the streets
shouting “Bread” “Down with the autocracy!” “Stop the
war!”
- Males were sent off to fight in World War I
- Hungry and tired from working in horrible conditions
 A couple days later Petrograd shut down due to lack of
workers

8.  Reforms were now caused based more on a political
point
-people began to realize the corruption and incompetence of the
tsar regime
A) Led to the abdication of tsar, Nicholas II
-People demanded:
A) duma or an elected parliament
B) rights to form political parties
 After the tsar abdicated his position in the
government, a provisional government was created
-controlled by Duma (Imperial Parliament)

9. Tsar Nicholas II
-Last Russian Tsar
-born on May 18,
1868
•inherited the
throne when his
father, Alexander
III, died in 1894
•Weak ruler/ never
wanted to become
tsar & wasn’t
prepared to be one

10.  October 25, 1917 the Provisional Government was
overthrown
-by the Bolshevik party (communist), led by Vladimir
Lenin, and the Soviets (workers’ council)
-Took place at Petrograd (St. Petersburg)
 Eventually the Bolsheviks took over full control of
government and appointed themselves as leaders of Russia
-ended Provisional Government’s war with Germany through the
establishment of the Red Army and signed the Treaty of BrestLitovsk in 1918

11.  Civil war broke out between the “Red”(Bolsheviks) and
the white(anti-Bolsheviks)
- Continued for several years
 The “Red”(Bolsheviks) fraction won eventually
 The civil war contributed to the formation of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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