PO SC 4710 Lecture 6: 1917 WWI
3 Apr 2019
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Russia was not prepared, but saw themselves as a world player. Russian army huge, but badly led, illiterate soldiers, undisciplined soldiers. Discontent among peasants now soldiers, workers in factories. February 1917, tsar nicholas ii as leader of the military resigned due to the defeats. Marxists encouraged troops to overthrow the generals and stop fighting. The new government was provisional government and kept russia in the war to win and get more land. Political system moved from right to left as the war continued. 2nd revolution and lenin, communists, bolsheviks took power. Bolshevik slogan: bread and land , bread for workers, land for peasants, lets make peace, Red is the color of blood spilled by working class exploited by capitalists. Whites wanted either tsar or democratic government. People left the cities and grew crops. Bolsheviks barely survived as whites controlled most of the country and they controlled. Foreign intervention from british, french, italian, japanese, chinese, us to put down the.
