2. Table of Contents Assignment: Date: Vocabulary: Revolutions in Russia
Setting the Stage / Industrialization

3. 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”

4. Setting the Stage page: 433

6. 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

8. Industrialization in Russia led to unrest
Czar’s Resist Change
Autocratic Rule
1881, Alexander III succeeded his father and halts all reform.

9. Czar Alexander III

10. 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

11. Methods of control
Strict censorship
Secret police
Political prisoners to Siberia

13. Uniform Russian Culture
Russia official language
Jews target of persecution
pogroms
1894, Nicholas II becomes Czar

14. Czar Nicholas II

15. Industrialization in Russia led to unrest
Read pages: 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?