From Tsardom to Communism Russia 1914-1924
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From Tsardom to Communism: Russia 1914-1924
GCSE History Revision Notes
By Dane O’ Neil
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From Tsardom to Communism: Russia 1914-1924
Table of Contents
1.1 - Tsarist Russia (Pre-Communist Russia) 6
Russian Politics under Tsar Nicholas II 6
1.2 - ‘Bloody Sunday, 1905’ – The Beginnings of Revolution. 7
1.3 – Prime Minister Stolypin’s failed economic policies (1906 – 1911) 7
1.4 - The influence of the First World War 8
1.5 - The ‘February Revolution’, 1917 8
2.1 - The Provisional Government – problems and failures 9
Bolsheviks prepare for revolution (1917) 9
2.2 - The October Revolution, 1917 9
2.3 - Why were the Bolsheviks so successful in 1917? 10
The Russian Civil War (1918-1921): 11
3.1 - The ‘Reds’ and the ‘Whites’ 11
The Allied Powers support Whites 11
3.2 - Studying the Russian Civil War 11
4) The Kronstadt Naval Mutiny 11
5) The Aftermath of the Civil War 11
Civil War: 1 - The Military Conflict 12
The Military Conflict of the Russian Civil War was fought on many different fronts 12
The Defeat of the White Army: 12
Civil War: 2 - Lenin’s War Communism 12
War Communism (Agriculture): 13
Civil War: 3 - The Red Terror: 13
Civil War: 4 - The Kronstadt Rising (February 1921) 13
Civil War: 5 - Aftermath of the Russian Civil War 13
Lenin’s NEP (New Economic Policy) and Russian Economic Rec...