HIST 1002 Lecture Notes - Petrograd Soviet, Lavr Kornilov, Vladimir Lenin
22 Nov 2012
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The end of tasarist russia: tsar nicholas ii & tsarina alexandra, russia badly divided. Most of the population were not white russians . Very conservative: tsar nicholas" military gamble. Russians saw tsar as a father figure. 1905 onwards, the faith towards the tsar was wavering: grigorii rasputin (1865-1916) A group of counts create a plot to assassinate rasputin: feed him poisoned cake, shoot him. He doesn"t die: throw him off a cliff, drown him. Temporarily healed aleksei - son of the tsar. The march revolution: women demonstrate in petrograd, troops ordered to put down protest, but refuse. When your police and troupes refuse to follow you then your government is finished: tsar nicholas abdicates. The provisional government: two competing centres of power, the duma. Provisional government: petrograd soviet, provisional government"s social reforms. Didn"t want to leave ww1: bread, land, peace . Bread and land yes but no peace. Broke up some of the large estates: the continued war.
