Russian History 1917-24
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- Russia 1917-24
- 1917
- Reasons for discontent
- Competition for land (invasion)
- Hard for trade. No sea or railway not finished until c.1914
- Different population density. More control in areas
- Tsar Nicholas weak. Lack of economic development
- More than 20 ethnic groups
- 1/2 of country are ethnic Russian
- Natural barrieris
- Primitive farming (no tractors, by hand)
- Revolution. Strikes in Petrograd
- Provisional Government formed
- July Days (Lenin)
- Bolsheviks overthrow
- July Days (Lenin)
- Kornilov revolt: July
- Reasons for discontent
- 1922-24
- 28th December 1922
- Conference of Russian delegates approve USSR creation
- USSR = Union of Soviet Republics
- 10,000km wide, 7,200km N-S (11 time zones)
- Lenin shot 3 times and died of a thrid stroke
- 28th December 1922
- 1921-24
- Education
- Girls and boys taught together
- Children taught about revolutions
- By 1926, 58% of Russia was literate
- Little authority for teachers
- Women
- Divorce easier
- 2 month paid maternity leave
- 8-hour day. 5 hours domestic
- Culture
- Culture = propaganda
- Proletkult meant people could access culture
- Socialist realism
- Education
- 1918-21
- Causes
- Economy and Social hardship
- Bolshevik reforms
- Czech legion
- Foreign powers
- 1918: War communism
- 1921: Kronstadt Mutiny
- 1921: NEP
- 1921: Kronstadt Mutiny
- 1918: Brest-Litovsk ended war. Mixed opinions
- Causes
- 1917
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