World War 1, Revolutions, and Ten Days That Shook the World

I. Context of WWI. 1916/7. Turning point of the war. Collapse of social truce. German turnip winter of 1916/17.

Oct, 12, 1916. Austrian Prime Minister assassinated.

November 1916, Emperor Franz Josep finally dies.

1916. Easter Rebellion in England.Easter rebellion in Ireland. Mutinies in France. Petain takes over leadership. Russia: Empire and Czar tottering under pressure of war.

11. Russian Background

Combined traditions of Social Democracy, populism, and conspiracy.

1881. Alexander 11 assassinated by People's Will. Followed by repression and anti-Semitism of AlexanderIII

1880s. Intense push for industrialization and nation building.

1902. Lenin. What is to Be Done. Notion of vanguard party.

1903. Split among Russian socialists into Majority Mensheviks, minority Bolsheviks.

1905 Revolution. Establishment of Duma

1910-1914. Working class militancy.

1914. War. Mensheviks defensivist, Bolsheviks into revolutiona!Y defeatism.

III. Revolutions of 1917

March 8, 1917. (February 23). International Women's Day March. Bread riots and demonstrations spread to factories.

March 12, 1917. Provisional Government.

March 15, 1917. Nicholas 11 abdicates. Russia a Republic. Provisional Government and Dual Power March, 1917. Order No. I of Petrograd Soviet.

April, 1917. Lenin arrives at Finland Station.

April Theses. Bread, Land, and Peace. All Power to the Soviets

July Days Crisis. Kerensky named Prime Minister

Night of October 24/25. (November 6/7). Revolutionary Actions

Bolsheviks create government of People's Commissars.

Land, business, and family reform. 1917-1920.

New Family Code: Alexandra Kollontai

1918. Treaty of Brest Litovsk. Coming of Civil War.

IV. Aftermath.

1918-22.Civil War.

1921. N(ew)E(conomic)P(olicy)

1924. Death of Lenin. USSR established.

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