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The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution. Mr. Tran. CA Standard 7.1. Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin’s use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g.. The Gulag). Objective.

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The Russian Revolution

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  1. The Russian Revolution Mr. Tran

  2. CA Standard 7.1 • Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin’s use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g.. The Gulag).

  3. Objective • Students will be able to analyze the way individuals thought about their way of life by writing a letter to the Tzar

  4. Anticipatory Set • What makes Russians happy?

  5. Conditions in Russia • • Widespread suffering under autocracy—a form of government in which one person, in this case the czar, has absolute power • • Weak leadership of Czar Nicholas II—clung to autocracy (absolute power) despite changing times • • Poor working conditions, low wages, and hazards of industrialization • • New revolutionary movements that believed a worker-run government should replace czarist rule • • Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1905), which led to rising unrest

  6. Bloody Sunday • Accelerated the Russian Revolution • Sunday, January 22, 1905, Father Gapon, a Russian Orthodox priest, led a peaceful march of workers through St. Petersburg towards the Tsar’s Winter Palace. • Workers presented a petition to the Czar, asking for: • The creation of a constitution • The right to form a labor union • Better working conditions • Workers thought Tzar would protect and help them.Instead, palace guards feared revolting crowd and opened fired • Several hundred workers were killed or wounded

  7. SIMULATION ***** Bloody Sunday, the massacre of unarmed protestors outside the palace, in 1905 ONE OF THE PRIMARY CAUSES of the Russian Revolution

  8. The 1905 Revolution • Riots and revolts were sparked by Bloody Sunday • 10 days of strikes and demonstrations that completely halted all industry, work and transportation. • The revolution successfully stopped normal daily life in Russia

  9. Intelligentsia • The intelligentsia – made up of radical, well-educated middle-class people wanted to change Russian society. • Radicals organized workers, peasants, and soldiers into councils called soviets. • Inspired by the ideas of Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto • Radicals used Soviets to organize the working class and to spread their ideas about change.

  10. October Manifesto • The Tzar gave in to demands of 1905 Revolution • October Manifesto – October 30, 1905 promised • - people freedom of conscience, speech, assembly, and press. • - a congresscalled DUMA • all laws would be approved by the Duma • The tsar appointed half of the Duma to approve, to create laws. • The tsar still had power of the military, foreign policy, and the secret police. • Between 1906-1916, Nicholas shut down four different Dumas.

  11. Student Engagement • Pretend you are a Russian citizen (either a member of the rebels or a peasant worker). Write a persuasive letter to the Czar, unique to your Russian. Identity your perspective. Include details as to your situation in life (mention family, living conditions, etc.). What will you try to convince the Czar to do, to change, or to realize? Complete Reading Study Guide 14.1 When finished.

  12. Closing • Reading of letters

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