Causes of the Russian Revolution
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- 1905 - Bloody Sunday
- Tsar Nicholas II
- Rasputin’s Power
- Bloody Sunday was the name given to the events of Sunday, 22nd January 1905 in St Petersburg when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
- Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks
- Lenin
- Tsar Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia (ruled 1894-1917), who was a major cause to the Russian Revolution since the people were unhappy about his rule and his decisions (e.g. leading the entire army but failing). This eventually led to uprising and he was forced to abdicate the throne in 1917, and was assassinated in 1918.
- February/March Revolution
- Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late Imperial Russia. He proclaimed himself a healer with the ability to predict the future, won the favor of Tsar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra through his ability to stop the bleeding of their sick son in 1908.
- October Revolution
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. He was a Marxist who led the Bolsheviks to victory in the Russian Revolution. He was also the first person to put the idea of Communism into practice.
- The Russian Revolution (Feb 24th-28th) was a period of political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and create a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a civil war. The monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the Provisional Government (later overthrown by Lenin).
- The October Revolution, also called Bolshevik Revolution, (October 24th–25th), the second and last major phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the Soviet regime. Vladimir Lenin became the leader in what would become the Soviet Union.
- Vladimir Lenin
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