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AIM: What were the causes and effects of the Russian Revolution in 1905. Ms. McMillan Global IV February 28, 2012. REVIEW. Russia was ruled by an absolutist Tsar Censorship Secret police Tried to block revolution Society Strict social classes still existed Middle class had no power
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AIM: What were the causes and effects of the Russian Revolution in 1905 Ms. McMillan Global IV February 28, 2012
REVIEW • Russia was ruled by an absolutist Tsar • Censorship • Secret police • Tried to block revolution • Society • Strict social classes still existed • Middle class had no power • Poor peasant class who feared reform • Urban problems • Some industry in the cities • Long hours/low pay for city workers • Slums filled with poverty and disease • Diversity and Nationalism • Vast empire with many ethnic minorities • Tsar attempted to Russify all Russia
Bloody Sunday • On Sunday, January 22, 1905, a march occurred in St. Petersburg. • The peaceful marchers hoped to convince the tsar for reform. • Nicholas II, fearing an uprising, called in soldiers. • The soldiers shot and killed many of the marchers. • “Bloody Sunday” destroyed the people’s faith and trust in the tsar. • After Bloody Sunday, strikes and revolts exploded across Russia’s cities and countryside.
CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION • Low spirits after defeat in 1904 war with Japan
Treaty of Portsmouth President Theodore Roosevelt Acts as the Peacemaker He gets the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION • Poverty and bad working conditions. An Early Russian Factory
CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION • Corrupt Government
CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION • Persecution of minority groups Russian Cossacks Slaughter The People in Odessa
CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION • “Bloody Sunday” killings
Where there any reforms? • In the face of this chaos, Nicholas made some changes! • He agreed to reforms and promised to grant more rights, such as freedom of speech…. • However, these changes did little to relieve peasant and worker discontent.
RESULTS OF THE REVOLUTION • The “October Manifesto” – Tsar Nicholas II announced reforms and new freedoms. • Civil liberties • Freedom of speech • Freedom of assembly • No laws to be introduced without the agreement of the Duma
RESULTS OF THE REVOLUTION • Nicholas II set up the Duma, which must approve all laws. However, the Duma had no real power! (No legislative power; could only advise.)
RESULTS OF THE REVOLUTION • Nicholas II dissolved the first Duma when leaders criticized the government! At their first meeting, members of the Duma put forward a series of demands including the release of political prisoners, trade union rights and land reform. Nicholas II rejected all these proposals and dissolved the Duma.
RESULTS OF THE REVOLUTION • Pogroms continued These refugees, photographed in the port of Liverpool in May 1882, were among the first of the estimated 2 million Jews who left Russia between 1881 and 1914, mostly for the United States.
RESULTS OF THE REVOLUTION • New voting laws limit power of later Dumas. Peter Stolypin, chairman of the Council of Ministers (1906 - 1911), restricted the voting franchise which lessened the voting power of the peasants and working classes. His goal was to limit the number of radical left deputies and increase Octobrist Party representation so that it could provide a solid base of support for the government in the Duma.