TheRussian

Revolution (Part 2)

TheRussian

Revolution (Part 2)

Causes 1905

Causes 1905

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Russian Russian Social Social

HierarchHierarchyy

First Stages of First Stages of IndustrializationIndustrialization

An Early Russian Factory

Weak EconomyWeak Economy

1905 Russian Rubles

Extensive Foreign Extensive Foreign Investments & Investments &

InfluenceInfluence

Building the Trans-Siberian RR[Economic benefits only in a few

regions.]

Russo-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905][1904-1905]

The “Yellow Peril”

Russo-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905[1904-1905]]

Russo-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905[1904-1905]]

Russian & Japanese Russian & Japanese SoldiersSoldiers

Russia Is HumiliatedRussia Is Humiliated

Treaty of Portsmouth Treaty of Portsmouth [NH] - 1905[NH] - 1905

President Theodore Roosevelt Acts as the Peacemake

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[He gets the Nobel

Peace Prize for his

efforts.]

War withWar withJapanJapan

In 1904/05 Russia and Japan fought for control of Korea and Manchuria

The Tsar expected a quick victory

Russia suffered defeats on Land and sea. Japan destroyed the Russian Navy

Tsar becomes more unpopular

Russia is humiliated

Government seen to be weak and incompetent

Conditions for the people get worse

price rises food shortages and unemployment

ResultsBackground

1905 Revolution1905 Revolution

Unrest Among the Unrest Among the Peasants & Urban Peasants & Urban

Working PoorWorking PoorFather Georgi Gapon:

Leader of the Leader of the People OR People OR

Police Police Informer?Informer?

Bloody SundayBloody SundayJanuary 22, 1905January 22, 1905

The Czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg

The The RevolutioRevolutio

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BloodyBloodySundaySunday

Jan 1905 200,00 unarmed workers march to the Winter Palace

Demands - Better living and working conditions - end to war - a parliament

Soldiers fire on crowd killing 500

Tsar undermined in the eyes of the people

Support grows for revolutionaries

set off a wave of riots, strikes and murders

Events Results

1905 Revolution1905 Revolution

The BattleshipThe Battleship PotemkinPotemkin Mutiny Mutiny [June, [June,

1905]1905]

• Sailors on the battleship Potemkin were protesting against being served rotten meat – led to captain of the Potemkin ordering leaders of the mutiny to be shot.

• Instead of shooting the mutineers, the firing squad joined the rest of crew and threw the officers overboard.

• The crew sailed out of Russia to Romania, fearing they would be attacked by other Russian battleships, but although ordered to destroy the Potemkin, the sailors on the other ships were unwilling.

The BattleshipThe Battleship Potemkin Potemkin Mutiny Mutiny [June, 1905][June, 1905]

Battleship PotemkinBattleship Potemkin

ExerciseExercise

Do a mind map of the causes of the 1905 Revolution and show links between the reasons.