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Paper Clip Game

Paper Clip Game. Capitalist Version. Paper Clip Game. Communist Version. Unit 6: Russian Revolution and 1920s. What will we learn today? 10.3.6 Communism as opposed to capitalism 10.5.3 How the Russian Revolution affected WWI 10.6.3 Disillusionment and the void filled by dictators

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Paper Clip Game

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  1. Paper Clip Game • Capitalist Version

  2. Paper Clip Game • Communist Version

  3. Unit 6: Russian Revolution and 1920s What will we learn today?10.3.6 Communism as opposed to capitalism 10.5.3 How the Russian Revolution affected WWI 10.6.3 Disillusionment and the void filled by dictators 10.7.1 Causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution 10.7.2 Trace Stalin’s rise to power and analyze his regime 10.7.3 The rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes. Reflect on the rock paper scissor game. What usually happened? Was the communist system more fair? Explain.

  4. Assignment: 14.1 Revolutions in Russia

  5. Objectives • Describe the autocratic methods of Alexander III and the economic changes under Nicholas II. • Explain the crises that paved the way for the March Revolution and the end of czarist rule. • Summarize the Bolshevik Revolution and its outcome. • Explain Lenin’s reforms and Stalin’s rise.

  6. Essential Question • How did the events of the Russian Revolution both help and hurt Russia?

  7. The Big Idea • Long-term social unrest in Russia exploded in revolution, and ushered in the first Communist government.

  8. Revolution • Nicholas soon lost control. • Strikes, revolts and protests led to the March Revolution of 1917.

  9. THE MARCH REVOLUTION • Women who worked in factories in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) stood in line after a 12 hour shift to purchase insanely priced bread. • 10,000 women marched with the slogan “Peace and Bread” The women were joined by other workers creating a general strike. Czar’s solution was to fire upon the crowds but the soldiers joined the movement instead!

  10. Czar Abdicates • 1917- Czar Nicholas is forced to abdicate his throne • In prison in the Winter Palace No more servants to do their work

  11. Execution of the Romanov’s A year after the Czar abdicated the entire royal family was murdered

  12. Checking for Understanding • Why did the Czar get rid of the Duma? He did not want to share power

  13. Checking for Understanding • Why did the royal family put their trust in Rasputin? He was able to ease Alexis’ symptoms.

  14. Checking for Understanding • What does abdicate mean? To give up the throne

  15. Rasputin Song • There lived a certain man in Russia long agoHe was big and strong in his eyes a flaming glowMost people looked at him with terror and with fearBut to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dearHe could preach the bible like a preacher, full of ecstasy and fireBut he also was the kind of teacher women would desireRa-Ra-RasputinLover of the Russian queenThere was a cat that really was goneRa-Ra-RasputinRussia's greatest love machineIt was a shame how he carried onHe ruled the Russian land, and never mind the CzarBut the Cossachok he danced really wunderbarAll affairs of state, he was the man to pleaseBut he was real great when he had a girl to squeezeFor the queen he was no wheeling-dealer, though she heard the things he'd doneShe believed he was a holy healer who would heal her sonRa-Ra-RasputinLover of the Russian queenThere was a cat that really was goneRa-Ra-RasputinRussia's greatest love machineIt was a shame how he carried onBut when his drinking and lusting, and his hunger for power became known to more and more people, the demands to do something about this outrageous man became louder and louder...Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey."This man's just gotta go," declared his enemies,But the ladies begged, "don't you try to do it, please!"No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charmsThough he was a brute they just fell into his armsThen one night some men of higher standingSet a trap, they're not to blame"Come to visit us," they kept demanding, and he really came.Ra-Ra-RasputinLover of the Russian queenThey put some poison into his wine.Ra-Ra-RasputinRussia's greatest love-machineHe drank it all and said: "I feel fine."Ra-Ra-RasputinLover of the Russian queenThey didn't quit, they wanted his headRa-Ra-RasputinRussia's greatest love machineAnd so they shot him till he was dead.Oh, those Russians!

  16. Assignment 2: 14.1 Continued

  17. Year later revolutionaries executed Nicholas and his family • March Revolution succeeded in bringing down the Czar yet it failed to set up a strong government to replace it

  18. Czar Nicholas II lost his monarchy for the following reasons • Involvement in WWI • Corruption of Rasputin • Lack of political leadership • Marxist Revolutionaries

  19. Provisional Government Stay fighting in the war • Provisional government was established, headed by Alexander Kerensky. • Continued fighting WWI • BAD idea lost support

  20. Angry Peasants • Demanded land • City workers grew more radical • Soviets were formed local city councils consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers • A political challenge erupted from local “Soviets” • Later, this group became stronger and were labeled as “Bolsheviks.”

  21. Lenin Returns to Russia German military leaders shipped Lenin to Russia from Switzerland by rail to “create disorder” within Russia. Germany arranged Lenin’s return to Russia after many years in exile • April 1917: Traveled in a sealed railroad boxcar

  22. BOLSHEVIKS REFLECT THE PEOPLES’ NEEDS AND DISCONTENT • Lenin revitalized slogans from the mad mother’s march to influence Russians “Peace, Land, Bread” • Nov. 1917- armed workers took control of government offices. • Kerensky’s reign had ended .

  23. BOLSHEVIKS SEIZE POWER • A COUP WITHOUT BLOODSHED - Lenin takes over the provisional government at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on November 6, 1917. • Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communists after Marxist ideas. • Lenin had promised peace sohe signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which took Russia out of WWI • Cheka (secret police)- used terror tactics against enemies of Bolshevism

  24. Lenin hoped that the Russian Revolution of 1917 would incite similar socialist rebellions throughout Europe

  25. CIVIL WAR:VS Red White • Red army was associated with Bolshevik, communism and pro-Lenin • White army was associated with Anti-communism, loyal Czarists, and anti-Lenin form of Socialism 1918 to 1921

  26. Checking for Understanding • What did the provisional government want to continue that was very unpopular? World War I

  27. Checking for Understanding • Who sent Lenin back to Russia? Germany

  28. Checking for Understanding • Why did they send him back? They knew he’d try to get Russia out of the war.

  29. Checking for Understanding • Why did Czar Nicolas II lose his monarchy?

  30. Civil War Ends • The fighting and famine that followed killed 15 million Russians • Lenin’s Red Army won • 1921 Lenin launched a new plan to rebuild the Russian economy called the New Economic Policy • Allowed some private ownership • Changed the government to the Soviet Union • By late1920s economy was back up

  31. Old Flag of Russia

  32. Star: Communist Party Hammer: Workers Sickle: Peasants New Soviet Flag

  33. Current flag of Russia

  34. Checking for Understanding • What was Lenin’s plan for the economy called? New Economic Policy

  35. Checking for Understanding • What was odd about the plan? It used capitalist ideas

  36. Checking for Understanding • Who won the Russia Civil War? The Red Army (Bolshiviks)

  37. Checking for Understanding • What was Lenin’s view of Communism spreading? He hoped it would spread throughout Europe.

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