Agenda 1-28DO NOT ASK ABOUT GRADES!

They will be shared Weds.• BW – Define vocab on notes sheet 4-1

• CW – Notes on Russian Revolution(s)

• CW2 – Critical thinking question

• HW – Write a 1 paragraph reflective essay about your performance so far this year. This is 1st TEST GRADE MP4

• QOTD – “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt

What caused the Russian Revolution? Notes #4-1

Russia Under the Czars

• In 1881, Alexander III becomes czar, ends reforms

• Russian peasants lived in poverty, while Czar’s family, nobles, lived well.

Czars Continue Autocratic Rule

• From 1894 to 1917 Czar Nicholas II was ruler of Russia. He was a poor leader, who refused to modernize Russia.

• Institutes autocratic rule, suppressing all opposition, dissent

• secret police monitor schools

• Non-Russians (Jews) are treated harshly

Czar Nicholas II

Rapid Industrialization…kind of

• Number of factories in the world doubles between 1863 and 1900;

• Russia still lags

• Poor Industrialization breeds discontent over working conditions, wages

Russo-Japanese War

• Russia loses to Japan! (OMG)

• Groups begin challenging the czar.

Bloody Sunday: Revolution 1905

• In 1905, 200,000 workers march on czar’s palace to demand reforms, Army fires into the crowd, killing many

• Anger over Massacre forces Nicholas forced to make reforms

• The Duma, Russia’s 1st parliament, meets in 1906

• Czar dissolves Duma after only 10 weeks

Bloody Sunday (1905)

World War I: The Final Blow

• Heavy losses in World War I reveal government’s weakness

• Army losing effectiveness;

• food and fuel shortages.

• people hungry and unhappy

The Revolutionary Movement Grows

• Popularity of Marxist idea that the proletariat (workers) will rule

• Bolsheviks—Marxists who favor revolution by a small committed group

Russian Revolution of 1917

• March, 1917 - Army and peasants revolt and force the czar to step down.

Russian Revolution of 1917 cont’d

• Duma establishes provisional, or temporary, government

• November 1917, Provisional Gov’t Topples , workers take control of the government

Bolsheviks• The Bolsheviks won support by

promising “Peace, Bread, and Land”,

Vladimir Lenin

Communist Party flag (which Bolsheviks later become)

• Took control of Russia over the next 4 years