Wednesday.  Turn in Art Assignment  Bracket – Baron de Montesquieu vs. Adam Smith  Pick up new DBQ and DBQ Do’s from the front cabinet  Due Friday  12.5 “Russian” to Revolution NOTES  Random Fact of the Day  If you want to see a perfect NCAA bracket, let me know and I’ll show you mine.

DBQ School  Want help analyzing and preparing for the next DBQ?  Thursday after school from  We will analyze the sources, talk about potential POV, etc.  Due on Friday

12.5

Remember Nicholas II? 10.3  Russia slowly industrializes during the later 19 th century  Nicholas II faces unrest due to Russo-Japanese War, typical industrial issues  Bloody Sunday  Revolution of 1905  Nicholas II calms Russian people with creation of Duma

Tough Times 10.3  N2 dismisses Duma twice and quietly represses political opponents  Oversees brief economic recovery but industrial strikes/peasant violence common

Rise of Socialism in Russia  1898 – Social Democratic Worker’s Party  Vladimir Lenin  Lenin’s Philosophy  Capitalism destroyed by violent revolution  Lack of working class in Russia could be supplemented by peasant class  Soviets – worker’s councils  Elite intellectuals and full-time revolutionaries should control country

Socialist Split  Bolsheviks  Bolsheviks – followed Lenin’s ideas  Menshiviks –be more patient, wait for growth of working class and work through democracy  Bolsheviks begin to plot revolution as early as Bloody Sunday

Overthrow of the Czar February Revolution The February Revolution

Causes for Revolution  Embarrassment in Russo- Japanese War  Lack of progress after Revolution of 1905  Tremendous cost of WW1  Hunger for the people at home  Massive loss of troops during the war  Incompetent Leadership  Nicholas II fighting in the war  Influence of Rasputin

DEATH OF RASPUTIN

Abdication  Mass demonstrations in St. Petersburg in January 1917  Food shortages, especially bread…triggers women’s riots  Soldiers turn on their government  Nicholas II abdicates on March 2 nd, 1917  Family placed under house arrest

Friday.  Niccolo Machiavelli vs. Emmeline Pankhurst  Finish 12.5  12.6 Notes  Random Fact of the Day  My bracket is stupid.

Provisional Government  Russia had two governments  Provisional Gov’t (PG) – liberals, pro-WW1  Petrograd Soviet – workers/soldiers, anti-WW1  Alexander Kerensky  Liberal measures in PG  No need for complete revolution…keep status quo

Army Order #1  Looks to replace military officers loyal to Czar  Popular soldiers put in charge of military  Leads to collapse of military discipline