Russian Revolution

Industrialization
Czar Nicholas II looked to foreign investors & raised taxes to help
Russia industrialize
Rapid industrialization=unhappy people
Low wages, poor working conditions, child labor
Fueled Karl Marxs idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat
The working class would be the rulers
1903: Russian Marxists split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks were more radical, Lenin was the major leader of the
Bolsheviks
 Bloody Sunday: The Revolution of 1905
January 22, 1905: 200,000 workers and their families
approached the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
They wanted better working conditions, more personal
freedom, and en elected legislature
More than 1,000 protesters were wounded and several
hundred killed
In October 1905 Czar Nicholas created a the Duma: Russias
first Parliament
Was dissolved in 10 weeks
 Russia in WWI
Czar Nicholas decided Russia would join in 1914
Russia was behind so the war created problems for Russia
Czar Nicholas steps down
Provisional government takes over
November of 1917 Communist Lenin takes power
Signs the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany
Distributes farmland among the peasants
Russians become angry.
 Russian Civil War
Lenins supporters were called Bolsheviks
Bolshevik opponents formed the White Army
The Bolshevik army was called the Red Army
Leon Trotsky led this army
1918-1920: Civil War in Russia
March of 1921: Lenin goes to the NEP (New Economic Policy)
Not total communism/socialism
Lenin renames Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
 Stalin
Who will take over after Lenin dies?
Leon Trotsky or Joseph Stalin
Stalin=man of steel
Stalin begins campaigning behind the scenes
By 1928 Stalin was in charge of the
Communist Party
 Daily Stalins
Daily Life
Life Economy
Totalitarian
Women were = to Government Command economy: govt is
men in charge
Motherhood was Five Year Plans:
considered a restrictions=shortages
patriotic duty Collective
farming=peasants unhappy,
The State
Secret police
1937: Great Purge:
eliminated opposition
Censorship of media and
education
State supported youth
groups
Chinese Revolution
1911: Revolution Alliance overthrew the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty that had ruled since 1644

1912: Sun Yixian became President of the New Republic of China, later gives Presidency to Yuan Shikai

1916: Yuan Shikai dies & military leaders become in charge of China

1917: China joins WWI to get land back when Allies win, but the Allies give the land to Japan

1917: the May Fourth Movement breaks out because the people are upset about the Treaty of Versailles

1921: group met in Shanghai to organize the Communist Party: Mao Zedong was one of the founders

1923: Lenin sends military forces to China to aid the Communist party

1925: Sun Yixian dies & Jiang Jieshi takes power

1927: Nationalist troops attack Communist leaders in Shanghai

1930: Civil war breaks out in China between communists & nationalists
Chinese
1931: Japan takes control of Chinese territories
Revolution
1933: Communists surrendered to Jiangs army, Communists Long March & settled in caves in Northwestern China
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