THE BOLSHEVIK

REVOLUTION
(1917 – 1924)
CAUSE, COURSE, IMPACT

PRESENTER: MR. VISH KISTAMA

 THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

• Date: November 6 and 7, 1917

• most explosive political events of the twentieth century

• marked the end of the Romanov dynasty & Russian Imperial rule

• Vladimir Lenin led Bolsheviks

• Lenin seized power and destroyed Csarist rule.

• the Bolsheviks became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (first ever

communist nation)
 CAUSES OF THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

• autocracy—government in which one person (the czar) has absolute power

• Weak leadership of Czar Nicholas II

• Poor working conditions, low wages, and hazards of industrialization

• New revolutionary movements

• Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1905)

• Bloody Sunday, 1905

 CAUSES OF THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

• World War I—high casualties, economic ruin, widespread hunger

• The March Revolution,1917

COURSE OF THE THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
 IMPACTS OF THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

• Bolshevik Party becomes government, led by V. I. Lenin

• Farmland distributed among farmers, factories given to workers.

• Banks nationalized and a national council is assembled to run the economy.

• Russia pulls out of World War I, signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,

• Czarist rule ends. Nicholas II, his wife and five children are executed.

• Civil war, between Bolshevik (“red”) and anti-Bolshevik (“white”)

 IMPACTS OF THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION (cont’d)

• Industrial production drops, trade all but ceases

• Lenin asserts his control by cruel methods such as the Gulag

AFTER THE THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
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 REFERENCES

• https://prezi.com/iuagy7d2kik5/russian-revolution-timeline/

• https://www.history.com/topics/russia/russian-revolution

• http://www.csun.edu/~sr6161/world/unit%207/Standard%2010.7.1.pdf