the bolshevik revolution history 104 / april 1, 2013

The Bolshevik RevolutionHistory 104 / April 1, 2013

V. I. Lenin(1870-1924)

Rasputin(c. 1870-1917)

- an illiterate peasant at the center of power

“Dual Power” I:the Provisional Government

Alexander Kerensky(1881-1970)

Summer 1917: Kerensky rallies the army to a new offensive

Demonstration in St. Petersburg against the war

“Dual Power” II:Soviets (Councils) of workers, soldiers, and peasants

Lenin after his return

from Switzerlandto St. Petersburg

(1917)

The Putilov Works: a stronghold of Bolshevik support

The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg

Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace,

October 24-25, 1917

(November 7 by Western calendars)

Leon Trotsky(1879-1940)

Civil War:“Red” soldiers strung up

by “White” officers

Civil War: recruiting Red Army volunteers(lower right – “are you with us or with them?”)

Civil War: teaching economics to future party members

Allied forces intervene in the Civil War(shown here in Vladivostok)

A sarcastic Bolshevik view of the

League of Nations

“Capitalists of all countries, unite!”

Cultural experimentation: cutting-edge artists support(a) education and (b) the “construction of socialism”

Joseph Stalin(1879-1953)

Stalin claims to be Lenin’s chosen successor

The First Five-Year Plan: industrialization from scratch(here: Magnitogorsk, a brand-new steel town in Siberia)

Magnitogorsk: an idealized picture of workers’fervent belief in “building socialism”

Collectivization: the promise of technology and efficiency

The cost of collectivization