Background to The Russian Revolution Video

Background to The Russian Revolution Video. Learning Objectives for this video:

• The Causes of The Russian Revolution. Learn about the Background to the Russian Revolution. Learn about the Russian Revolution. Witness the birth of communism, trace the rise of the Bolsheviks, and learn what drove the Russian people to revolution - The Russian Revolution.
• Trace the intellectual and political issues that lay behind the Russian Revolution, and uncover the factors that led to the overthrow of six centuries of czarist rule, the outbreak of civil war, the emergence of the Communist Party, and the formation of a network of soviets.
• Understand why Russian revolutionaries accepted Marxist ideology as a political philosophy, and explain why communism appealed to Russia's working class.
• Gain insight to the political philosophy and political aims of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Explore the key events that led to, and the outcome of, revolution in Russia in 1905.
• Discover the key events that led to revolutions in Russia in March and November 1917, and explore the profound political outcomes of those two historic events. Identify the goals of the NEP, the New Economic Policy that was instituted by Lenin.
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