Lecture: Russian Revolution

Outline

Background to 1905

Nicolas II and Alexandra

Russo-Japanese War of 1904

Revolution of 1905

Reforms

Reforms revoked, forgotten

/Duma created

Lenin

February Revolution

February Revolution

April Days

June Days

Counterrevolution

October Revolution

Soviet Communism

War Communism

Civil War

Peasant reforms, land grabs

Economic Woes

NEP

Cultural atmosphere of early Soviet Russia

Death of Lenin

Rise of Stalin

First Five-Year Plan

Liquidation of the Kulaks

Communist Church Policy

Great Terror

- who

- how

- why