Bureaucrats, rtl-contributors, Administrators
1,655
edits
Russian Revolution: Difference between revisions
m
nationalists -> national
ElBortoTexas (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
m (nationalists -> national) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{Infobox military conflict
The '''Russian Revolution''' was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire, commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1925 and concluding in 1928 with the Nationalist Republican establishment of the Russian Republic at the end of the Russian civil war.▼
| conflict = Russian Revolution
| place = [[Russia]]
| width = 300px
| date = 1925 - 1928 (3 years)
| result = - Russian National Congress victory, establishment of the Russian National Republic
| combatant1 = Parliament of the Republic </br> Tricolour Army </br> Finnish rebels
| combatant2 = Russian National Congress </br> Cossacks
| commander2 = General [[Mikhail Orlov]] </br> [[Ozero]]
}}
▲The '''Russian Revolution''' was a period of political and social
== Background ==
In 1922, a series of crop failures
Large shantytowns, informally known as "Czartowns," began appearing around every major city in Russia; these overcrowded shantytowns were prone to disease outbreaks.
During this period, anti-elite, anti-Czar, and pro-republican sentiments started to grow throughout the Russian Empire. By 1923, the Russian Republican Congress (R.R.C.), the largest republican organization in Russia at the time, had over a million members in the Muscovite region alone.
== Storming of the Palace ==
By the winter of 1925, the situation in Russia had rapidly deteriorated, with most citizens believing that the Czar had mishandled the economic crisis and exacerbated the famines in the rural south through poor economic policy. Additionally, there was
On December 3rd
== Russian Civil War ==
For the first month of it's existence the new Republic was struck in deadlock between the two major factions in government, the liberal republicans and the nationalist republicans. Additionally after the Czar fled many non Russian regions of the empire declared independence, while the Russian military acted mostly autonomously from the Republics congress. In February of 1926 after the first wave of elections was marred with controversy the Nationalist Republicans walked out of congress and started to conspire to overthrow the liberal-republican dominated congress.▼
==== Tensions between liberals and nationalists ====
For the first month of its existence, the new Republic was deadlocked between the two major factions in government: the liberal republicans and the national republicans.
▲
In February of 1926, the first elections were marred with controversy. The Vosstanists walked out of Parliament, declaring their formal opposition to the liberal republicans. After a series of negotiations with military and Cossack leaders, including General [[Mikhail Orlov]], the national republicans formed the Russian National Congress, accusing the previously established Russian Republican Congress of being an illegitimate institution. On the nineteenth, the Congress elected the revolutionary author and politician [[Ozero|Anastaze 'Ozero' Muromsky]] as Chairman of the National Republic.
==== The war ====
In response, Parliament gathered their sparse military regiments and militias into what became known as the Tricolor Army. Several regional leaders sided with Parliament, fearing that Congress would centralize the state and deprive the former viceroyalties of their autonomy. The Black Sea region, the Baltics, and several other regions populated by ethnic and religious minorities provided men for the Tricolor Army.
The Vossatanists consolidated their power by enacting several social, martial, and economic programs, alleviating the worst effects of the famine and the economic crisis. Using authoritarian methods against dissenters and insurgents, they managed to confine the Parliamentarians to southern Russia by the summer of 1926. The Parliamentarians appealed to the Ottomans and the United Kingdom for assistance, but were given no response except for Finnish revolutionaries in the far north. By the winter of 1927, notable figures of Parliament left the country. By March of 1928, all major insurgencies had ceased.
Over the next two years, the liberal and nationalist congresses, along with their respective loyalist militaries and militias, waged a brief civil war, with the national republicans eventually winning in the spring of 1928.{{Timeline and Lore}}
| |||