The 1905 Russian Revolution

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Mr. Cargile Mission Hills HS, San Marcos CA
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Nicholas II The Last Romanov Tsarr. 1894-1917
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The Tsar His Family
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Hemophilia the Tsarevich
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Nicholas II His Uncle, George V
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Causes
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1. Early 20c Russian Social Hierarchy
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2. First Stages of Industrialization
An Early Russian Factory
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3. Weak Economy
1905 Russian Rubles
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4. Extensive Foreign Investments Influence
Building the Trans-Siberian RREconomic benefits
only in a few regions.
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5. Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
The Yellow Peril
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Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
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Russian Japanese Soldiers
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Russia Is Humiliated
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Treaty of Portsmouth NH - 1905
President Theodore Roosevelt Acts as the
Peacemaker He gets the Nobel Peace Prize for
his efforts.
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6. Unrest Among the Peasants Urban Working Poor
Father Georgi GaponLeader of the People OR
Police Informer?
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Bloody SundayJanuary 22, 1905
The Czars Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
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The Revolution Spreads
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Russian Cossacks Slaughter The People in Odessa
Anti-Jewish Attacks
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7. The Battleship Potemkin Mutiny June, 1905
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Results
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1. The Tsars October Manifesto
October 30, 1905
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2. The Opening of the DumaPossible Reforms?
1906

• The first two tries were too radical.
• The third duma was elected by the richest people
  in Russia in 1907.

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The Russian Constitution of 1906

• Known as the Fundamental Laws April 23, 1906.
• The autocracy of the Russian Tsar was declared.
• The Tsar was supreme over the law, the church,
  and the Duma.
• It confirmed the basic human rights granted by
  the October Manifesto, BUT made them subordinate
  to the supremacy of the law.

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3. Jewish Refugees Come to America in 1906
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4. The Path to October, 1917
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Why did the 1905 Revolution Fail?
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Double Revolution in Russia, 1917

• Russias political system , w/ its weak Duma
  powerful Tsar, was not conducive to total war
  mobilization.
• The tsar, Nicholas II, distrusted the Duma
  resisted calls to share power w/ his subjects.
• In September 1915, the tsar took direct command
  of armies _at_ the front, leaving his wife,
  Alexandra, and her adviser Rasputin in real
  control of the govt.

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Double Revolution in Russia, 1917

• By late 1916 the large but incompetent poorly
  equipped Russian army had experienced numerous
  defeats had run out of ammunition other
  essential supplies.
• The civilian economy was in a state of collapse
  and the cities faced shortages of fuel and food
  in the winter of 1916-1917.

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Double Revolution in Russia, 1917

• In March 1917 (February by the old Russian
  calendar), troops in St. Petersburg mutinied as
  women rioted, demanding bread. The Duma formed a
  provisional govt. the Tsar abdicated.
• On November 6, 1917 (October 24 in the Russian
  calendar) Vladimir Lenins Bolsheviks staged an
  uprising in Petrograd overthrew the Provisional
  govt.