Key Figures of the Russian Revolution

Alexander Kerensky• Prime Minister of the

Russian Provisional Government

• Supported Russia’s involvement in World War I after the February Revolution of 1917

• Was ousted by the Bolsheviks

• Escaped from Russia to France

• Supported neither side during the Russian Civil War

Vladimir Lenin• Leader of the Bolsheviks• Led the October Revolution of

1917 and the Bolshevik Government

• Established CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission – secret police)

• Red Terror and War Communism

• Civil War and NEP (New Economic Policy)

• Dream of World Revolution

Leon Trotsky

• Second in Command during the October Revolution of 1917

• Formerly led the Mensheviks

• Founder and leader of the Red Army

• Opposed Stalin and his policies

• Assassinated by Stalin’s agents in Mexico, 1940

Felix Dzerhinsky

• Known as “Iron Felix”• First Director of the

Bolshevik Secret Police (Cheka, later KGB, now FSB)

• Led persecution of political opposition during the Red Terror and the Russian Civil War

Joseph Stalin • One of the leaders of the

October Revolution of 1917• Leader of the Soviet Union

and the Communist Party from 1924 to 1953

• Succeeded Lenin• Replaced NEP with Five-

Year Plans (rapid, government-planned industrialization)

• “Socialism in one country”

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