HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alexander Kerensky, April Theses
8 Sep 2016
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More than 300 people die, about 1000 wounded. Bloody sunday reveals to the people that the tsar will not protect them. Tsar forced to agree to a duma (parliament) Chaos continues: tsar nicholas ii appoints the conservative prime minister pyotr stolyphin in 1906. Stolyphin dissolves the duma and orders summary executions. Russia is in an international crisis by 1914. Ww1 is what causes the russian empire to collapse. On february 25, 1917 there is a general strike: duma is ordered to dissolve again, this time they refuse. On february 27, 1917, the soviets create worker"s councils. Tsar nicholas ii abdicates on march 2, 1917. His goal was to bring marxism to russia. He was the leader of the bolshevik party. No support for provisional government that had been in place since the abdication of the tsar. Call for a communist revolution in other countries.
