REVOLUTIONS 1917

MARCH 1917

CAUSES

Russia entered to the WW1

Tsar took personal command of the army

The Middle Classes were unhappy

Council of United Nobility
was calling for the Tsar to step down.

Because the people
want food and peace

EFFECTS

Revolutionaries set up
the Petrograd Soviet

Began to take
of the food supplies

The P.G. ask to Michael
(the Tsar brother) to being
the Tsar

OCTOBER 1917

EFFECTS

Bolsheviks took control
of Russia

The P.G. didn't
exist anymore

CAUSES

Bolsheviks were very popular

Stalin

Promise to solve problems of the
workers and peasants

He said that is was time
for Bolsheviks to take
power