March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots break out in Petrograd (name given to St. Petersburg during the war – Nicholas II thought it sounded to “German”) Why no food?Why no food?

March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots begin (food sent to the front)

•Turned into a political riot (anti-tsar)

March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots begin (food sent to the front)

•Turned into a political riot (anti-tsar)

•Tsar disbanded the Duma

March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots begin (food sent to the front)

•Turned into a political riot (anti-tsar)

•Tsar disbanded the Duma

•Duma reformed on their own

March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots begin (food sent to the front)

•Turned into a political riot (anti-tsar)

•Tsar disbanded the Duma

•Duma reformed on their own

•Two main powers: 1. Duma – Moderate, Constitutional, Legal

2. Petrograd Soviet (council) – Representing the Revolutionary Proletariat.(all revolutionary groups tried to

influence it Bol/Men/SR)

March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots begin (food sent to the front)

•Turned into a political riot (anti-tsar)

•Tsar disbanded the Duma

•Duma reformed on their own

•Two main powers: 1. Duma

2. Petrograd Soviet

•The Duma created the Provisional Government (Prince Lvov) What was its job?What was its job?

March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots begin (food sent to the front)

•Turned into a political riot (anti-tsar)

•Tsar disbanded the Duma

•Duma reformed on their own

•Two main powers: 1. Duma

2. Petrograd Soviet

•The Duma created the Provisional Government

•Admitted one socialist (Kerensky – anti-Bolshevik and pro continuing WWI)

March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots begin (food sent to the front)

•Turned into a political riot (anti-tsar)

•Tsar disbanded the Duma

•Duma reformed on their own

•Two main powers: 1. Duma

2. Petrograd Soviet

•The Duma created the Provisional Government

•Admitted one socialist (Kerensky – anti-Bolshevik and pro continuing WWI)

•Tsar returned from the front and is forced to abdicate

March Revolution of 1917

•Food riots begin (food sent to the front)

•Turned into a political riot (anti-tsar)

•Tsar disbanded the Duma

•Duma reformed on their own

•Two main powers: 1. Duma

2. Petrograd Soviet

•The Duma created the Provisional Government

•Admitted one socialist (Kerensky – anti-Bolshevik and pro continuing WWI)

•Tsar returned from the front and is forced to abdicate

•Russia becomes a republic and Lenin returns

November Revolution of 1917

•Lenin starts preaching “Peace, Land, Bread”

November Revolution of 1917

•Lenin starts preaching “Peace, Land, Bread”

•Bolsheviks win majority of seats in Petrograd (and other) Soviets

November Revolution of 1917

•Lenin starts preaching “Peace, Land, Bread”

•Bolsheviks win majority of seats in Petrograd (and other) Soviets

•Bolsheviks rise up and overthrown the Provisional Gov’t before it can finalize a new Constitutional Assembly

•Kerensky flees to the United States

November Revolution of 1917

•Lenin starts preaching “Peace, Land, Bread”

•Bolsheviks win majority of seats in Petrograd (and other) Soviets

•Bolsheviks rise up and overthrown the Provisional Gov’t before it can finalize a new Constitutional Assembly

•Kerensky flees to the United States

•November 7, 1917 the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic is born•Lenin as Head of State

•Trotsky as Foreign Commissar

•Joseph Stalin as Commissar for Nationalities

•Bukharin as editor of Pravda

November Revolution of 1917

•Lenin starts preaching “Peace, Land, Bread”

•Bolsheviks win majority of seats in Petrograd (and other) Soviets

•Bolsheviks rise up and overthrown the Provisional Gov’t before it can finalize a new Constitutional Assembly

•Kerensky flees to the United States

•November 7, 1917 the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic is born•Lenin as Head of State

•Trotsky as Foreign Commissar

•Joseph Stalin as Commissar for Nationalities

•Bukharin as editor of Pravda

•March of 1918 – Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Trotsky Bukharin Stalin Lenin

Bolshevik propaganda poster of Trotsky slaying the dragon of counter-revolution, 1918.

The inscription on the worm says: Counter-revolution

Russian Civil War White Army propaganda poster depicting Trotsky as a Jewish devil.