The Revolutionary WheelThe Revolutionary Wheel

1. Revolution Strikes lead to uprising Soldiers join the workers The Tsar is forced to abdicate

2. Unity while overthrowing old regime

Provisional government is established

3. Disunity and conflict over founding new regime

Lenin and Bolsheviks seize power from provisional govt and take the Winter Palace

Cheka established Civil War breaks out

4.One set of revolutionaries 4.One set of revolutionaries eliminates/persecutes otherseliminates/persecutes others

Lenin dies—Trotsky and Stalin duel for power Stalin out maneuvers Trotsky and has him exiled

(assassinated)

5.Small, organized minority suppresses ALL 5.Small, organized minority suppresses ALL opposition to defend or advance opposition to defend or advance revolutionary causerevolutionary cause

Stalin uses terror to suppress ALL opposition Persecutes original Bolsheviks Orthodox Church is targeted Stalin begins his “purges” Propaganda

6. Revolutionaries suppressed or 6. Revolutionaries suppressed or eliminated SCAPEGOATINGeliminated SCAPEGOATING

Millions sent to labor camps or executed Show trials to legitimize the terror and imprisonment of

citizens “comrades’ Intellectuals, military officers targeted

7. Rise of Oppression Police state with few freedoms

8. Reaction to revolution REVERSES 8. Reaction to revolution REVERSES gains rise of DICTATORgains rise of DICTATOR Stalin and the Communist leadership rule with an iron fist Dictatorship is complete

8. Reaction to revolution REVERSES 8. Reaction to revolution REVERSES gains rise of DICTATORgains rise of DICTATOR Stalin and the Communist leadership rule with an iron fist Dictatorship is complete