R2 quotes and stuff

Figes on the October Revolution

"the October revolution was a coup d'etat… but it took place during a social revolution"

Alexandra on the progressive bloc

"fiends worse than the duma"

Lenin Slogans

"Peace! Bread! Land!" and "All power to the soviets"

Pipes - October revolution

"October was a classic coup d'état"

Battle of tsushima deaths

10000 Russians

Alan Wood - fundemental laws

"the notion of a "constitutional Autocracy' was not only impractical [but a]… political absurdity doomed to fail"

Troksy - April theses

"produced the impression of an exploding bomb"

Battle of tannenburg deaths

70000 russians killed

Fundemental Laws article 4

"the tsar is the supreme authority… god himself"

Fundemental Laws article 87

the tsar can dismiss the duma at any time

How many different nationalities within russia

60

Nicholous II - representative government

"i shall never under any circumstance agree to the representative form of government because I consider it harmful."

Nicholous II - october manifesto

"there were only two ways to open… crush the revolution by sheer force … this would mean rivers of blood … or give the people their civil rights"

Chamberlin - Lenin's leadership

"without [lenin's] … extremist leadership it is at least conceivable that the explosive mood of the masses would have evaporated."

Pipes - Lenin going to finland after July days

"the flight of the shepard (lenin) could not no effect but to deliver a heavy blow to the sheep (bolsheviks)"

Lynch - Russo-japanese war

"the incompentence of the government, which the war glaringly exposed, excited the social unrest that it had been specifically designed to dampen"

how meny marching on international womans day 1917?

100000

Ministerial leapfrogging

28 ministerial changes, (including 4 different prime ministers) in 18 months

food prices WW1

4 times higher than before the war by late 1916

Figes - Nicholas

"Nicholas was the source of all the problems"

Lenin - October 10 quote

"history will not forgive us if we don't take power now"

What percent of russia was urban workers before revolution

4%

what percentagae of russia was peasants

82%

Fitzpatrick - July days quote

"a disaster for the Bolsheviks"

Bloody sunday deaths

200 dead 800 injured

Rodzianko - February revolution

26 February 1917 - "the capital is in a state of anarchy … It is essential … to entrust a person enjoying the country's confidence with the formation of a new government … All delay is death"

Alan Wood - Lenin

"Lenin… reflected the increasingly radical temper of the party"

Lenin - the Provisional Government

"Our tactics: absolute distrust, no support for the Provisional Government"

Reed - Russo-Japanese war

"Russia needed a short victorious war and it turned out to be long and disastrous"

Figes - February Revolution

"the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown."

Alan Wood - the authority of the Tsar

"A word from the Tsar was sufficient to alter, override or abolish any existing legislation or institution"

alan wood - February revoltion

"spontaneous upsurge of politically motivaed masses"

Chamberlin - Provisional Government

"weak to the point of impotence"

Pipes - World War I

by the end of 1914, 6.5 million men had been mobilised, with the issue of only 4.6 million rifles

Lynch - Kornilov Affair

"It was the Bolsheviks who benefited most from the failure of the attempted coup"

W.H. Chamberlain - February Revolution

"The collapse of the Romanov autocracy … was one of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time."

Pipes - june offensive

"The failure of the June Offensive affected calamitously the reputation of Kerensky and the Provisional Government"

Michael Lynch - leaders of the october revolution

"If Lenin was undeniably the inspiration behind the October Revolution, Trotsky was indisputably the executive figure who organised the actual rising."

Bolshevik Party members feb vs oct

24,000 Bolshevik Party members in the February Revolution and 350000 members in the october revolution

Strikes before and after the great spurt

1893 - 19 vs 1902 - 122

Nicholas - hating on japan

"The Japanese are infidels. The might of Holy Russia will crush them."

Stolypin - reforms

"Suppression first, and then, and only then, reform."

Nicholas - rasputin

"He is just a good, religious, simple-minded Russian."

Duma president Rodzianko - Rasputin

"The appearance in Court of Grigory Rasputin, and the influence he exercised there, marks the beginning of the decay of Russian society and the loss of prestige for … the Tsar himself."

Duma president Rodzianko - on the tsar going to the front

"The people must interpret your move as one inspired by the Germans around you, who… in the minds of the people [are our] enemies and [are] treason[ous] to the Russian cause"

nicholas - finally leaving

"If it is necessary, for Russia's good, that I step aside, I am prepared to do so."

Bogdanov (menshevik) - april theses

"These are the ravings of a lunatic"

Kerensky - june offensive

"For the sake of the nations life it was necessary to restore the army's will to die"

Kerensky vs lenin

Kerensky: "I want to take the middle road, but nobody will help me." vs Lenin: "There is no middle course."