Russia/USSR, 1917–1927

HIS 187

International Women’s Day

Peasant Riots

Last days of the tsar

Do you mean that I am to regain the confidence of my people, or they are to regain mine?

Nicholas II

International Women’s Day

Soldier protesters

Through Europe by rail

Bolsheviks

• “bolshe” is Russian for “big” (like Bolshoi Balley); thus, bolshevik means belonging to the majority, which they don’t

• a socialist, but a particular kind of socialist; no compromise with the old order or the other classes

• “vanguardism”—a small group (say, a few dozen on a train) can start a revolution

In or out of war

At the Finland Station

April theses

Bolsheviks in the streets

You are miserable bankrupts. . . . Go where you ought to be—into the dustbin of history.

Leon Trotsky

Allied invasion

Protests

Congress

We shot down Russian peasants and our boys are shot down by them. No sooner had we landed at Archangel than we shot the Soviet government there, and set up a government of our own. No sooner did we go into the interior than everywhere we found a local society we shot it to death and set up our own mode of government.

Sen. Hiram Johnson, R–CA

The Sisson documents

Relief and stabilization

socialism in one country

Stalin