October Revolution and the establishment of the USSR


Week 29: Btwn the Wars IDs

 

October Revolution-The October Revolution followed the February revolution in 1917 and took power from the Provisional Government to give to the Bolsheviks. It was caused by discontentment with the war and the peoples support for the Bolsheviks.  

 

 Bolshevik by Boris Kustodiev

 Bolshevik (1920), by Boris Kustodiev.

 

Formation of the USSR- The Soviet Union was established in 1922 and included Russia, Ukraine, BelarusGeorgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. It was caused be the ending of the Czarist regime and further caused by unhappiness and low moral due to WWI.