• Title = French Rev vs Russian Rev

• What are some similarities between the causes and start of the French Rev of 1789 & the Russian Rev of 1917? There are a few!!

• Chronicle the entries and exits of the combatants of WWI

a. Who looks more and more like this?

• Keep sinking American ships!

• Americans do not join war in 1915!!!– What does US President Woodrow Wilson do?

• Germans keep doing what?– Sinking more and more “neutral ships”– What did the Germans say about the ships?

• USA and “who” are enemies?– Mexico!!! Why?

• What will Germany do?– Zimmerman note

• ask Mexico to join Central Powers and get what?

– Land back!!!

• USA declares war on Germany in 1917– Join Allied Powers

• Soldiers with high morale boost for the Allies• Financial aid to debt-ridden Allies…• Supplies/Ammo

• Analyze the political, economic, social, and military problems that existed in Russia before and during WWI

• Chronicle the events of the Russian Revolution

• Chronicle the causes and effects of 2 Revolutions of 1917

• How did Russia look…Politically, Economically, Socially, and Militarily?

• Bloody Sunday• What followed?

a) Russia enters WWI in 1914…how was it PSM?– How much faith

was there in the Czar?

b) After 1 Year of War?

c) What do you do if you are Czar Nicholas?

• Nicholas not helping the army (mutinies, chaos)

• Leaves Czarina Alexandra (German) in charge of Russia. Good idea?

• Alexandra depends on…

• The picture gives it away!! – “Is he running Russia?”

• Powerful people want him killed

• Assassinated Dec 1916 by Duma, nobles, Czarina’s family

• Predicts if he is killed that Romanov Dynasty will be killed within 2 years also

• Two Revolutions (hmm) took place in 1917….– March (Feb)– Nov (Oct)

• Many causes for the Revs, but the big one is…– WWI

(stress)

• Army is in CHAOS–Mutinies–No weapons–No Leadership

• Food shortage–Rationing bread–No Grain = No

Vodka!–Hmmm

• Women!!!• Czars troops do what?

– Don’t shoot…instead they actually do what?• Join the women!

• This begins the March Revolution!!

• Out?• In?

– March 12…new gov takes over

– March 15…Czar abdicates throne• He’s still alive though• Hmmmmm

• What kind of gov is it…or does it want to be??

• Who created it?– Run by middle-

class liberals– Preparing a

Constitution (hmmm)

• Europe’s view of the new gov? or

• Drop out of WWI– Russians wanted out badly

• What does the Provisional Government do?– Stays in the war– this decision will ruin the

Provisional Government… why?

• What if the Prov Gov did get out of the war?

• Running the Prov Gov• Growing in Power• What two groups

are here?

• Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!!!!

• Exiled since 1895– By whom?

• Political Beliefs?– Party?– Idol?– Dreams for

Russia?

• Leon Trotsky–Hardcore

Commie

• Led by what party/men?

• Who has to be overthrown this time?

• Where will the showdown be?

What happened in 1917?

• Again! (not real )• Red Guards (Lenin

and the Bolsheviks) storm the Palace

• Provisional Government fires no shots– Bloodless Revolution!

• Bolsheviks control the government (shaky though)

• Capital =

• Now called:

• WWI?– End it– Treaty with

Germany (Brest-Litovsk)• Loses Western

Russia (ha)• Pay Money (ha)

• Use a Robespierre tactic for the land they control…(to keep control)– Terror (sounds like who?)

• Secret Police…(?)• Czar and family killed

• War Communism (E)– Bolsheviks control all

industry and production– Peasants had to give up

food• Red Army and Trotsky

– Disciplined and organized– Fought with Nationalism

• 1922, New Constitution is made (democracy?)– One party controls all

of Russia (Commies)– Who enforces this

party’s power? (2)• Who is the new

enemy? – Western Allies…

1. What systems exist before the “change?”

– Capitalism and Democracy2. What kind of change

happens?– Dramatic + violent change

3. Who would be in charge of the change?

– Proletariat has revolution4. What is the outcome?

– Proletariat controls politics and economics

1. What systems exist before the “change?”– Capitalism (too rampant)

2. What kind of change happens?

– Gradual3. Who would be in

charge of the change?– Government (making

what?)4. What is the outcome?

– Capitalism is curtailed more by Government

1. What systems exist before the “change?”

– Capitalism and Democracy?

2. What kind of change happens?

– Dramatic + violent change?

3. Who would be in charge of the change?

– Proletariat has revolution?

4. What is the outcome?– Proletariat controls politics

and economics?