1853~1856 Defeat in Crimean War led to the tsar’s decision to emancipate the serfs in 1861, modernizing the agricultural system #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
By the 1890s, progressive ministers persuaded the tsar that Russia must undertake massive industrialization #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Russia grew to become a major economic power in the world, however the rapid industrialization burdened the peasants heavily #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Social Democrats believed Marxist revolution offered the only hope. Many conspired to overthrow the tsar #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
The massacre of hundreds of working people on Bloody Sunday triggered the revolution of 1905 #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Strikes pursued; this wave of revolt forced the tsar to yield concessions, including a constitution and a new parliament, or Duma #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
However Russia remained to be an autocracy as it entered WWI, with the Duma proven virtually powerless #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
In the March revolution of 1917, troops joined rioters in Petrograd, Tsar Nicholas II was forced to give up his throne #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
The Duma prepared to convene a democratically chosen Constituent Assembly to draft constitution, however quickly became unpopular #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
On April 1917, the Kaiser’s generals sent Lenin from Switzerland through German battle lines into Russia #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Lenin’s faction of the Social Democratic party, the Bolsheviks, seized government head quarters in the second revolution of 1917 #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Lenin implemented changes: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, abolished private ownership, nationalized banks, and much more #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Lenin also sought to dissolve the Assembly #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
1918~1921 Russia’s former allies sent in troops to bring Russia back into war and resist Communism (most pulled out by 1919) #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
The world's refusal of Communism encouraged some non-Russian nationalities to rebel for the “White” against the new “Red” regime #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Lenin reestablished secret police to crush “White” uprisings. The White counterrevolution ultimately failed #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
In 1921 New Economic Policy (NEP) ended War Communism by reestablishing the free-enterprise system in agriculture and retail trade #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
In 1922, the Communist state became a federal state, known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
In 1927, Joseph Stalin gains control of the Communist party and Soviet state; following Lenin’s death in 1924 #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
In 1928, USSR’s Five-Year Plan was launched, intended to have capital for rapid industrialization be squeezed out of agriculture #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Stalin believed that the rural society developed under the NEP must be crushed #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Peasant resistance to collectivization reduced agricultural productivity to nothing, resulting in mass starvation during 1931~1933 #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
Meanwhile, the industrial sector grew enormously, fulfilling Lenin’s definition of communism as “socialism plus electricity” #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
1936~1938 Stalin got rid of most of the surviving old Bolsheviks #RusRevHW
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015
EQ: Why did Russia experience revolution rather than reform?
The Russians wanted a new government instead of the Tsarist autocracy, and so Russia underwent a revolution instead of reform #RusRevHWfinal
— Alisss (@so_hu_am_i) March 14, 2015