Transcript Bloody Revolution of 1905-1917

Russian Revolution
1900-1905
Ferris Wang, Jeffrey Wu, Cheuk Him Tsang,
Thomas Kwong
Ironic Wasteland
Geography
People
125 million lived under Tsar’s rule
Mostly made up of Poles and Ukrainians
Russians were foreigners
•Had own life styles
•Customs
•Language
Massive Country
Population not evenly spread out
HighSomountains
the south
big yet soinsmall
because of geography
sweeping
from
thecold
Arctic
Ocean Siberia
Farming soil Cold
was Air
limited,
the rest
was
wasteland•Overcrowded cities- St. Petersburg
A Dystopian Society
Tsar changed their lives
The
Rich
Town
WorkersHadPeasants
thatslaves
thought
Russian
Nobles
Peasants
been serfs,
for
life was better in
landlords
cities•Super rich
•No •1
rights
percentwages
of
•Miserable
population
•No the
freedom
•Overcrowded
but owned25 St.
•NoPetersburg
land
percent
of all
land
•Worked
overtime
Improvement?
Capitalists
•Allowed
to telling
grow
Made laws
food/own
them
theyland
cannot
•Bankers
complain
•But•Industrialists
land was
assigned
to Mir's •No striking
•Tradingvillages
communes,
•No
Made
it easy
to make
•Hadcomplaints
to
pay for
land
profits, loans,
•Communes
to
contracts, cuthad
taxes,
divide
land
advantages
•Population grows,
land lessens, hard to
support families
Theory of a Better Life?
The Man Who Started it All
Karl Marx
•invented Communism and spread it
through his works.
•struggle between the proletariats and
capitalists
•Communism
•All wealth and power spread out
Communists
Liberals
The proletariats believed in this, but capitalists didn’t
•Caused bloody revolution- Bloody Sunday
Tsar Rex
Authority not questioned
•Secret police- Okhrana
•Censor, arrest, spy
•Riot police- Cossacks
•Killed angry mobs
•No limit with power
•Employed many for own advantage
•Servants
Controlled Churches- Beliefs
•Minds
•Souls
Harsh
An Rules
autocrat
•High taxes
•Low provisions
Glossary
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St. Petersburg – a city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the
head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia
Siberia - vast region of eastern Russia, extending from the Ural Mountains in the west to the
Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north, to China, Mongolia, and
Kazakhstan in the south. Much of it is frozen for over half the year. Sparsely populated, it was
used during Soviet rule (1917-1991) as a place of
Autocrat - an absolute ruler, esp. a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government
as by inherent right, not subject to restrictions.
Cossacks - A member of a people of southern European Russia and adjacent parts of Asia, noted
as cavalrymen especially during czarist times.
Okhrana - Department for Defense of Public Security and Order; was a secret police force
of the Russian Empire
Karl Marx
Communists - A member of a Marxist-Leninist party.
Liberal - Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views,
or dogmas; free from bigotry.
Communism - a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in
common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
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Russian
Revolution
(1905-1917 )
Edward Huh, Josephine Steeghs, Michelle
Lim and Sam Min
What was Bloody Sunday and
why did it happen?
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Leader: Father Gapon
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Better working conditions, fairer
wages and reduction of working
hours per day
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End to the Russo-Japanese war
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First warning shots, and then shots
into the crowd to disperse them
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An estimated total of around 1,000
killed or wounded
What changes in the Tsar’s government
followed Bloody Sunday?
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The government had greater control
over the workers.
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Became more unstable
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The news of the massacre spread
and caused riots that killed many
government officials. A series of
strikes swept the country, closing
banks, halting trains, and paralyzing
industry.
How did World War I affect
Russia and the Tsar?
Madness
Economy
What were the causes of the
Feb/March Revolution?
Long Term Causes:
Overwhelmingly rural
population; 80% of
the pop
 Out dated and
disorganized armies.
 An inefficient,
autocratic political
structure, which did
not want change
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What were the causes of the
Feb/March Revolution?
Short Term Causes
Russian military failures
during the First World
War
 public dissatisfaction ;way
country run by Tsarina
Alexandra Fyodorovna of
Hesse, and Tsar
Nicholas's ministers
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This is how Vladimir Lenin’s got in
power….
Glossary
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Bloody Sunday
– A day when a large massacre of workers that were
petitioning against the Tsar happened
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Vladimir Lenin
– A Russian revolutionary leader
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Bolsheviks
– The communists who represented the workers, and
supported Lenin
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Abdicate
– To formally step down from power
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October Manifesto
– The document that granted civil liberties and rights to the
Russians
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Duma
– An elected parliament to aid the Tsar in governing
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Russian Revolution
1917-1918
Kevin Li, Brian Ye, Zach Lanman and Celine Tee
Alexander Kerensky
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
What immediate actions did Lenin
take after the Nov/Oct Revolution?
Provisional government destroyed
and new communist government
was put into place.
General Krymov committed
suicide .
Kornilov was arrested and taken
into custody.
Lenin took control.
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Vladimir Lenin – an educated man who believed in communism
Alexander Kerensky – a man that served as a prime minister of
Russia
Provisional – temporarily, provisional government is a
temporary government
Petrograd – Russia’s capital city at the time
Red Guards Treaty of Brest-Litovsk – a treaty signed on March 13th 1918 by
Russia, marking its exit from World War I.
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Russian Revolution
(1918-1924)
Jeffery Yu, Oscar Fang, Olivia Tan
8-3
What opposition did Lenin face
during the Civil War? How did he
win
the
war?
Main Opponents (Lenin):
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Revolutionary Groups
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Mensheviks
White army
Anarchists
Provisional government
Armies of Intervention
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Britain
France
America
Japan
Lenin won the war by:
 Leading his revolution group (Red
Army) to rebel against the capital
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Watch War…
Gets power—announced that a new
government would appear
Lenin with his army
45,000 Czech
Civil War, 1918-20
• Reds’ strengths:
• White weaknesses:
– Fought in separate detachments
– Unwilling to sacrifice individual
differences
– Widely scattered geographically
– Made up of socialists, liberals and
conservatives
– Only common purpose was hatred of
Bolshevism
– Too reliant on overseas aid
– Whites imposed reign of terror on areas
they controlled
– Lacked quality leaders like Trotsky
– Controlled central Russia and
maintained supply lines
– Controlled two major cities
Moscow and Petrograd
– Controlled railway network
– Controlled industrial areas –
access to munitions
– Could claim that Whites were ‘in
league with foreign
interventionists’
– Had driving sense of purpose
– Brilliantly organised and led by
Trotsky
Red Army
rebels
against the
capital!
How did Lenin try to fix Russia’s problems
following the Civil War?
NEP, New Economic Policy
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The peasants are allowed to sell
their surplus food for profit again
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The peasants who increased their
food production would pay less tax
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Factories with less workers would be
given back to their owners
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Citizens are allowed to use money
again
Who was Joseph Stalin and how
did he differ from Leon Trotsky?
Joseph Stalin:
- Took the Power
- Help the Red Army
- Banished Trotsky from Russia
- Sent the Cheka to murder Leon
Trotsky
- Ended the Russian revolution
Leon Trotsky:
- Lost election
- Stepped down cause the election
- Help the Red Army
- Got Banished by Joseph Stalin
- Got killed in Mexico by the Cheka
Glossary
Words
Definitions
Red Army
Russian Army; Communist Army
Whites Army
Russian Army; Socialists Army
Cheka
The secret police organization of state
(GPU)
Red Terror
The campaign of mass arrests and executions
conducted by the Bolsheviks
War Communism
An economic system that was introduced
to Russia during the civil war. It combined
emergency measures and socialists
dogma.
New Economic Policy (NEP)
A new kind of policy created by Lenin
replace of the War Communism to fix
Russia’s problems.
USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR):
Leaders of the Socialist party
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Russian Revolution
1924-1941
Wimberly Dick, Alek Anichowski, Natalie
Wang, Brien Lee
What effect did Stalin have on
agriculture and Russia’s Farmers?
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Food Supply
Providing food for the
workers in the factories
Five Year Plans
Quota
Collectivization
What impact did Stalin have on
industry and industrial workers?
Stalin’s Motives
Five-Year Plans
Plan in Action
Workers
How did Stalin deal with opposition
to him or his leadership?
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Politburo members
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1934
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labor camps & prison
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Absolute dictator
How did Stalin promote himself and
maintain popularity with the Russian
people?
-Five Year Plans
-Great
Purge
-Prisoners
-Power
-Propaganda
Glossary
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Five Year Plan: A plan that will boost the economy of Russia
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Collectivization: the act of the basic of Russia’s economy resulting
in people providing goods for other Russians
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Dictator: A single person who has absolute power over a nation
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Purge: to get rid of something that is unwanted
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Russian Revolution
1939-1953
Emily Zhou, Min Jeong Kang, Talia Narduzzi,
and James Roh
Russia’s Relationship with other
countries During WWII
What impact did WWII have on
Russia and Stalin’s power?
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Economy down
Population decrease
Buildings/factories
/villages/farms
Factory in
ruins
Dictatorship
Stalin focused on rebuilding
Joseph
Stalin
What actions did Stalin take following World
War II to rebuild and extend Russia’s
power?
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Iron Curtain
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Development in weapons
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Relations with other
bordering countries
Iron Curtain
Glossary
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Comintern- A communist organization (Communist International)
Nazi-Soviet Pact- A pact in which both countries promised to remain
neutral
Neutrality Pact- A pact signed between the Japanese Empire and
the Soviet Union
Battle of Stalingrad- Battle between Germany (along with allies) and
the Soviet Union over the city of Stalingrad
Reconstruction- To rebuild something that is destroyed
Iron Curtain- Boundary between the Warsaw Pact Countries and the
NATO countries
Buffer zone- A zonal area that is used to keep two or more areas
apart
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