Do Now

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Do Now

• Take out your homework, coming around to check
  it.
• What were economic, political, and social
  conditions in Russia prior to the Revolution of
  1917?

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1905 RevolutionRoad to Russian Revolution of 1917
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Tsar of Russia Nicholas II

• Only true autocracy left in Europe
• No type of representative political institutions
• Nicholas II became Tsar in 1884
• Believed he was the absolute ruler by divine
  right
• Revolution broke out in 1905
• --Russo-Japanese War (1904)

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The 1905 revolution
Results
Background
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
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
War with Japan
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The 1905 Revolution
Events
Results
Bloody Sunday
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
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Results of 1905 Revolution

• The October Manifesto -
• promise of freedom of speech, right to form
  political parties
• Establish a Duma
• No new laws without consent of the Duma
• Broken Promises
• Voting system was unfair rich had more influence
  than the poor
• Duma had little influence over the Tsar and new
  laws
• First two Dumas were dismissed for demanding
  reforms
• Further changes introduced to excluded socialist

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Why did the Revolution fail?

• Japan released prisoners to aid the Tsar
• Most of the armed forces stayed loyal to the Tsar
• October Manifesto divided the opposition
• The workers strikes and the peasants uprisings
  were not co-ordinated
• No clear leader for the opposition

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Russia 1906 - 1914

• The Rule of Stolypin (Minister of Affairs for
  Nicholas II)
• Aim of stability
• 1. Repress the revolutionaries
• 2. Introduce reforms to improve living conditions
• 1911 - Stolypin assassinated

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Results of Stolypins actions

• 1. Great reduction in activities of the
  revolutionaries
• 2. Richer peasants (Kulaks) now run farms for
  profit
• 3. Kulaks now loyal to Tsar
• 4. Cities have more food
• 5. Conditions for some workers improve though
  many remain discontented. 1912/14 many strikes
• 6. Revolutionaries like Lenin learn to adopt new
  more tactics

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Exit Slip

• How will WWI change the revolutionary feelings?

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Do Now

• If you were Nicholas II during Revolution of
  1905, how would you have dealt with the
  uprisings?
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