#RusRevHW During the 19th century, Russia still had a weak society and unstable economy, causing many serf rebellions.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW People believed in other Western ideas instead of the tsarist regime, while official Russia found Western ideas absurd.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW Defeated in the Crimean War in 1861 with the emancipation of the serfs, Russia had a modernized agricultural system established.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW In the early 19th century, the Tsar established an industrialization program that produced great economic and social consequences.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW The workers' attempt to petition the tsar became a massacre of workers, known as Bloody Sunday.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW After the 1905 Revolution, the tsar took back the concessions he had made, and the tsar system seemed to fall apart.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW WW1 was a disaster for Russia, causing citizens to protest and the troops disobeyed. Nicholas II finally gave up his throne.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW The Provisional Government enacted reforms. Soviets were elected to govern factories, and they elected a hierarchy of Councils.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW Lenin went to Russia with the Kaiser general's offer, so he could undermine the Provisional Government's continuation of the war.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW Lenin led the Bolsheviks, with its base in the soviets, seized power in Russia by attacking the Provisional Government.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW Lenin made changes, peace with Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918, turning his country and the world against him.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW The changes weren't popular, so Lenin dissolved the Assembly, & he brought the soviets under the control of the Communist Party.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW In 1918–1921, The allies' refusal to recognize the Communists as Russia's masters caused the "White" to rebel against the "Red".
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW The White, who were the group of non-Russian nationalities within the tsarist empire, failed, but they learned from this movement.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW Lenin re-established the secret police, and ruled his people under dictatorship. The uprising of 1921 was crushed without mercy.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW The New Economic Policy(NEP) re-established the free-enterprise system in agriculture & retail trade to end War Communism in 1921.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 14, 2015
#RusRevHW In 1992, the Communist state became the USSR. Lenin died in 1924, and Stalin gained control of the party and Soviet state.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 15, 2015
#RusRevHW The Five-Year Plan launched in 1928 was disastrous for agriculture, but industrial production rose in the 1930s.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 15, 2015
#RusRevHW There were both terror and progress under Stalin's rule: the great purge of 1936-1938, and the thrift of industrial cities.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 15, 2015
#RusRevHWEQ The government shifted from the tsar regime to Stalin's dictatorship, but not a lot of reforms, mostly shift in dictatorship.
— Lindsey Yu (@linlin035) March 15, 2015