World History

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World History

• Thursday November 29th

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Bell Ringer

• What were three key points that Karl Marx makes
  in the communist manifesto? What is communism?
  How does communism affect laborers?

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Peasants

• Russian peasants lived in poverty and faced
  constant food shortages due to the lack of land
  to cultivate. Most of the arable (farmable) land
  belonged to the nobility. Redistribution of this
  land would alleviate many of the peasant's
  problems. 

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Conditions of Russia, Video

• Russia had a very small number of wealthy people
  who owned much of the land. Much of Russia was
  dissatisfied due to hunger and little wealth.
• Czar Nicholas II went into WWI hoping that it
  would raise nationalistic pride in Russia.

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WWI leads to Revolution

• World War I created conditions within Russia that
  helped trigger a revolution.The war created
  conditions for revolution for three reasons..

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• Almost 2 million Russian soldiers died during
  WWI.
• YOU THINK How would this lead to revolution?

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Royal Family

• 2. During the war, Czar Nicholas II went into
  battle with his troops, leaving his wife at home
  to rule the country.
• YOU THINK How would this lead to revolution?

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• 3.Russia was doing poorly in the war which was
  costly leading Russia into a depressed economy.
• YOU THINK How would this lead to revolution?

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Revolution

• A major cause of the Russian Revolution of 1917
  was the existence of sharp economic differences
  between social classes.
• The nobility was living a wealthy lifestyle while
  many peasants and farmers were starving to death
  and standing in bread lines.

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RACE!

• What is a Bourgeoisie?

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RACE!

• What is a Proletariat?

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Quiz

• True or False
• Russian peasants faced constant food shortages.
• Factory workers were treated poorly
• There was a drastic difference in wealth between
  social classes.
• Multiple Choice
• The people of Russia would find appeal in which
  of the following economic policies?
• Capitalism
• Communism
• Mercantilism
• NONE OF THE ABOVE

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• The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the
  Russian Provisional Government and gave the power
  to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks
• The Russian peasants supported the Bolsheviks in
  the 1917 Revolutions mainly because the
  Bolsheviks promised to redistribute the land
  owned by the nobility.
• The Bolsheviks were a socialist group led by
  Vladimir Lenin

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Communism

• The Bolsheviks eventually became the Communist
  Party of the Soviet Union.
• Communism-- a totalitarian system of government
  in which a single authoritarian party (a
  political party with total control) controls
  state-owned means of production.