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Table of Contents. Assignment: Date: Vocabulary: Revolutions in Russia Setting the Stage / Industrialization . Setting the Stage.
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Table of Contents Assignment: Date: • Vocabulary: Revolutions in Russia • Setting the Stage / Industrialization
Setting the Stage Opening Activity: Read the Russian version of the “La Marseilles” and predict the causes of the Russian Revolution? Explain your answer by citing examples from song. “Worker’s Marseilles”
Modernize Russia??? • Czar Alexander II late 19th century • Reform minded: Change Russia, modernize it to compete with the other European (Western) Powers. (Education) • Serfs: Slaves • Morally wrong, backwards, economically unsound • Free serfs, but….. Not really • Angry serfs “smoke” out land owners… FEAR • Czar Alexander II is assassinated
Industrialization in Russia led to unrest Czar’s Resist Change • Autocratic Rule • 1881, Alexander III succeeded his father and halts all reform.
Industrialization in Russia led to unrest Czar’s Resist Change • Autocratic Rule • 1881, Alexander III succeeded his father and halts all reform. • Jails any and all “Dangerous” • Question autocracy • Worshiped outside Russian Orthodox Church • Spoke other language
Methods of control • Strict censorship • Secret police • Political prisoners to Siberia
Uniform Russian Culture • Russia official language • Jews target of persecution • pogroms • 1894, Nicholas II becomes Czar
Industrialization in Russia led to unrest Read pages: 433-434 and complete this multi-flow map onto your spiral notebook. What were the causes of the unrest caused by industrialization? What were the effects? Answer: Why did autocratic rule blind Czar Nicholas II to the changing conditions of his time?