1.3 The Russian Revolution

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1.3  The Russian Revolutions

Name 2 important events in 1917 that changed the outcome of WW1

What you will learn in 

today's lesson

• What Russia was like before 1917.
  
• The causes for the February Revolution.
• The difference between socialism and communism.
• What marxists / communists are.
• How Lenin and the Bolsheviks turned Russia into a communist state.

Use these questions to make your own summary

Self-study

• Read paragraph 2.1 'The February and October Revolution'
• Write down some pinpoints about the revolutions 
• The difference between the revolutions
• Compare with your neighbour your answers (IN ENGLISH)  

new government 

The Soviet

New government

The provicional government

participation WW1

Vladimir Lenin

Radical Socialist

Bolsheviks

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Karl Marx

''the father of socialism''

Socialism

Socialists

- more control

Marxists/ Communists

- total control

(Book: Das Kapitaal)

Vladimir Lenin

Revolution!

Coup d' état

Bolshevik party

The October revolution

The treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Becoming the Soviet Union

Russian Civil War

The Soviet Union

1917-1920

1922

Worksheet

Which questions do you still have?

What you will learn in 

today's lesson

• What Russia was like before 1917.
  
• The causes for the February Revolution.
• The difference between socialism and communism.
• What marxists / communists are.
• How Lenin and the Bolsheviks turned Russia into a communist state.

Use these questions to make your own summary

'Stalin is too rude and this defect [-], becomes intolerable in the Secretary-Genral. That is why I suggest the comrades think about a way of removing Staling from that post'. 

"De geest van de grote Lenin en zijn triomferende vaandel inspireren ons nu voor de patriottische oorlog..." Jozef Stalin