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Bourgeoisie-middle class with materialist values
Polertariat- working class
Class conflict- conflict between classes about compettition According to the Marx, the society is divided between bourgieosies and proletariat.
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Knodynaka Tragedy- Large gathering of thousands for the coronation of the new Emperor of Russia. there was way too many people and not enough food or drinks for everyone, lots of people died and did not get out. Tsar Nicholas was a leader that was not going to be good for the people, he didn't know what he was doing and he was just going to listen to his uncle.
He definitely wasn't ready to be Tsar because he did not make any good decisions. -
Clergy- People of the Christian Church mostly
St. Petersburg/Petrograd- 2nd largest town in Russia
-The people of Russia wanted the Tzar to sign a petition because they did not want him as their ruler. They started protesting and got shot at.
-It was called bloody Sunday because there was a lot killed and wounded for peacefully protesting. -
The loss of the war led the Russian people to protest and strike against the government because they were unhappy and humiliated by the war. -
Rasputin was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He was friends royal family of Nicolas ll. He was known as a healer and as a religious person. He -
Abdicate- renounce of the throne of a monarcy
The woman started protesting because of gender discrimmination and unfair prices of goods like bread. The woman helped spark the revolution because they were brave enough to go out in the streets to protest and try to make a change. The Tzar had the government forcefully remove them. -
-Bolsheviks were a revolutionary faction led by Lenin. They were a Democratic party, they established Russia as a communist state.
-Mensheviks were against the Bolsheviks. They were apart of the Marxist Russian Social
-The provisional government ruled Russia in the time no one was in power.
Soviet-The Government of the USSR was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state
-The goal of the october revolution was to overthrow the provisional government led by the soviets -
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian politician he was the first head of government of the Soviet union. He led a Communist government, he led a one rule party called Bolshevik Party that he was leader of. He promised his people peace, land, and bread. He came through with the land and the peace but it was temporary and it later cause hardship all over Russia. -
The treaty said that Russia no longer had part in ww1. Russia had to give up some land and lost most of its coal, and oil industries. They signed the treat so that they wouldn't have to go to war and possible loose money and resources. -
War Communism- the Soviet economic and political system from 1918–1921, implemented by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War to consolidate power and support the Red Army.
The purpose of war Communism was to centralize the state and move them more towards communism. -
Checka was a "secret police" system that went around arresting, beating, and murdering people without trial.
Felix Dzerzhinsky, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, and other members of the Executive committe were involved in the Red Terror. Regular people were beat and killed by this group. The tzar and his family were killed. I think the terror happend because the people were getting so mad with how the Country was doing that they took matters into their own hands. -
Lenin changed communism in Russia by allowing private property, marked the nationalization of industry, and implanted new policies. He did this because of the economic devastation and he tried to rebuild the country. -
The red army was led by the Bolsheviks and the white army was anti Bolsheviks. The civil war broke out in Russia because the people were unhappy and they did not have great control over their government at the time. The red army wanted to establish a socialist state. The white army want to restore a form of pre-revolutionary government. The red ended up winning and establishing the Soviet union. -
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet union polititian. He was a brutal leader and executed hundreds and sent people to labor camps. -
I have learned that there were many different point of views during the revolution but most were unhappy with the government and they desperately wanted a new one. I think people were better off before the revolution because they wouldn't of had to go through Joseph Stalin. I think that the Russion revolution teaches us that politicians are important and who we vote into power is also important. And having a good, powerful leader is going to lead to victory and a bad one is not.