5. The Terror

5. The Terror
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“Without mercy we will kill our enemies in
scores of hundreds. Let them be thousands,
let them drown in their own blood.”
Bolshevik newspaper on the 2nd
assassination attempt on Lenin.
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In this lesson you will...
• Explore different features of the
Terror used in the Russian Civil War:
• The Red Terror (Emergence,
Methods and Justification)
• The Death of the Romanovs
• The White Terror
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1. Revision
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What Feature of War Communism
Do These Pictures Represent?
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What Feature of War Communism
Do These Pictures Represent?
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What Feature of War Communism
Do These Pictures Represent?
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5 Key Points
I’d add that it is important
to remember that the White Terror
was as bad as the Red Terror
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2. Red Terror
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The Emergence of the
Terror
• Read pages 152-3 of Reinventing Russia
& page 140 of Reaction and Revolution
(Cheka Class War).
• 30th August 1919: Assassination
attempt on Lenin by Fanya Kaplan an SR
member. Petrograd leader of the Cheka
(Urtisky) killed.
• 5th September 1919: Decree “On Red
Terror” passed.
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Methods and Justification
of the Terror
• Read pages 153-5 of Reinventing
Russia.
• 11th April 1919: Decree of Forced
Labour Camps introduced. Sees the
first concentration camps introduced.
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2. The Death of the
Romanovs
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The Assassination of Tsar
Nicholas II and his Family
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17th July 1918: Execution of Tsar Nicholas II and family at Yekaterinburg (Ekaterinburg).
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January 1919: Bolsheviks order the shooting of other ‘minor’ Romanovs.
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Read page 154 of Reinventing Russia
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Why did the Bolsheviks decide the Romanov family had to be executed?
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3. The White Terror
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The White Terror
• Read pages 156-8 of Reinventing
Russia.
2. Who were the main victims of the
White Terror?
3. According to Meyer, what is the main
cause of “Terror” type violence?
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Have you?
• Explored different features of the
Terror used in the Russian Civil War:
• The Red Terror (Emergence,
Methods and Justification)?
• The Death of the Romanovs?
• The White Terror?
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