| What Was Done: The Russian Revolution
I. Interpretive Introduction
Marxists
| Orthodox
Revisionist
Leninist |
Liberals
Modernizers
Conservatives
Accidentalists |
II. 1905 Revolution
| Russo-Japanese War 1904-05
Bloody Sunday
October Manifesto
The Duma |
Bolsheviks Social
Revolutionaries
Mensheviks
Cadets Octobrists
Conservatives
III. The February Revolution 1917
| World War One
Abdication of the Tsar (Mar 15)
The Provisional Government
| War Policy
Land Policy
Constituent Assembly |
Kerensky to Power
Kerensky Offensive |
The Soviets
Lenin's April Theses
"All power to the Soviets!"
"Land, Peace and Bread"
July Days |
Kornilov Affair |
IV. October Revolution 1917
Council of People's Commissars
| Peace initiative, land seizures, factory
seizures, nobility abolished, church suppressed,
alphabet reformed, calendar reformed, Cheka established |
Suppression of the Constituent Assembly Jan 1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Mar 1918 |
V. The Civil War 1918-1921
| Reds (Trotsky) v. Whites, Allies and Poland
War Communism
Comintern |
VI. The NEP 1921
| One Step Backward
Lenin's Death 1924 |
VII. Stalin Revolution 1928-1934
Power Struggle
| Bukharin v Trotsky v Stalin |
Socialism in One Country
| 5 Year Plans
Collectivization |
Purges
WWII |
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