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Key Figures of the Russian Revolution

Key Figures of the Russian Revolution. Alexander Kerensky. Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government Supported Russia’s involvement in World War I after the February Revolution of 1917 Was ousted by the Bolsheviks Escaped from Russia to France

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Key Figures of the Russian Revolution

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  1. Key Figures of the Russian Revolution

  2. Alexander Kerensky • Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government • Supported Russia’s involvement in World War I after the February Revolution of 1917 • Was ousted by the Bolsheviks • Escaped from Russia to France • Supported neither side during the Russian Civil War

  3. Vladimir Lenin • Leader of the Bolsheviks • Led the October Revolution of 1917 and the Bolshevik Government • Established CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission – secret police) • Red Terror and War Communism • Civil War and NEP (New Economic Policy) • Dream of World Revolution

  4. Leon Trotsky • Second in Command during the October Revolution of 1917 • Formerly led the Mensheviks • Founder and leader of the Red Army • Opposed Stalin and his policies • Assassinated by Stalin’s agents in Mexico, 1940

  5. Felix Dzerhinsky • Known as “Iron Felix” • First Director of the Bolshevik Secret Police (Cheka, later KGB, now FSB) • Led persecution of political opposition during the Red Terror and the Russian Civil War

  6. Joseph Stalin • One of the leaders of the October Revolution of 1917 • Leader of the Soviet Union and the Communist Part from 1924 to 1953 • Succeeded Lenin • Replaced NEP with Five-Year Plans (rapid, government-planned industrialization) • “Socialism in one country”

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