1Hill - Institutional Weaknesses and Tensions in Tsarist Russia and Economic and Social Inequalities
Russia's social development had lagged 300 years behind that of the west
2Russian Proverb - Institutional Weaknesses and Tensions in Tsarist Russia and Economic and Social Inequalities
Russia is not a state, but a world.
3Figes - Russo-Japanese War
The autocracy had shown itself to be incapable of defending the national interest
4Hill - Russo-Japanese War
An unsuccessful war against Japan led to the revolution of 1905
5Gapon - Bloody Sunday
There is no tsar
6Trotsky - The Fundamental Laws
All is given, and nothing is given...a constitution is given, but autocracy remains
7Trotsky - Limitations of the Dumas
A hooligan government
8Hill - Limitations of the Dumas
Sordid and bogus constitutionalism
9Pipes - Limitations of the Dumas
In terms of her own tradition, it marked a giant step towards democracy
10Figes - Ministerial Leapfrogging
Bureaucratic anarchy
11Pipes - February Revolution
The catalytic agents were radical intellectuals
12Hill - February Revolution
The autocracy was swept away by an almost spontaneous mass movement of workers
13Kerensky - The Effectiveness of the Provisional Government
Soviets had power without authority, the Provisional Government had authority without power
14CPSU - Lenin's return and his April Thesis
received with profound satisfaction
15Pipes - Lenin's return and his April Thesis
it was seen as the work of a madman
16Enraged worker to Chernov - The July Days
Take power, you son of a bitch
17Pipes - The July Days
Lenin's worst blunder
18Fitzpatrick - The July Days
caught off balance. They had talked insurrection, in a general way, but not planned it
19Kornilov Affair - Trotsky
The army that rose against Kornilov was the army-to-be of the October revolution
20World War 1 - Figes
The war challenged all European powers. Autocracy failed in this challenge