Russian Revolution
The reason it was hard to keep the Russian population fed and healthy during the Russ-Japanese War and WWI.
Russia wasn't industrialized.
Boxer/Clover
Working classes/peasants.
Supported the Bolsheviks and other radical groups.
Peasants and the working class
How Trotsky got back into Russia.
Germany helped them because they wanted Russia's government to fail.
How Stalin turned the people against Trotsky.
He demonized Trotsky by portraying him as an Elitist and a Cosmopolitan who was not truly devoted to Russia or its people.
Nicholas II got the people back in order and kept them from continuing the revolution in 1905 in this way.
Promising a constitution.
Industrialization
The Windmill
The way the Bolsheviks used the dual power dynamic between the Soviets and the Provisional Government to their advantage.
The group Trotsky led.
Red Armies
Stalin's side of the disagreement over how democratic the Communist Party's leadership should be.
Stalin believed that the Communist Party should be led by a General Secretary.
This was the job of the Duma.
To represent the people in front of the Czar, like a congress. Ultimately it was a job that was to be filled with only friends of the throne and was a nominal power.
Slaughter of Traitors
Red Terror
Gave the Bolsheviks the momentum to overthrow the Provisional Government.
Their final offensive on the Eastern front which was a huge failure and gave the Bolsheviks the perfect opportunity to seize power.
Sparked the power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin.
Vladimir Lenin's death.
He assassinated Trotsky because he had criticized Stalin's leadership.
The main causes of the revolution in 1917.
System inflexibility.
The Czar's broken promises and lack of voting.
The overall poverty among the people.
Pinchfield
Germany
The date the Provisional Government was overthrown and what it was due to.
October 25th, 1917. Due to the Bolshevik Red Guard seizing control of the Provisional Government's telegraph and radio offices, cutting off communication, as well as railroads, bridges, and strategic vantage points in the city.
Attributes that Trotsky represented.
Original symbol of the Revolution, a war hero, and better educated than Stalin.
Attributes and origin of Stalin.
He was from peasantry in Georgia and was adept at making friends with those in the Soviet state.
The reason the 1917 revolution was different from the revolution in 1905.
Soldiers mutinied against the Czar instead of killing any protestors. The soldiers turned on the Czar because they identified with the people and suffered with them. The peasants, farmers, and soldiers all suffered under the Czar.
Mollie
Bourgeosie/Czarists/Capitalists/Immigrants
The Bolsheviks did this when they were fully in power.
Reformed land, abolished private industry in cities, held elections for the new Constituent Assembly, and announced their intention to end the war.
What Trotsky believed in and where he was exiled.
He believed in spreading revolution and communism world-wide and he was exiled to Mexico.
What Stalin was focused on as a political agenda.
He was only concerned with Communism in Russia, not spreading it world-wide.