The Leaders of Russia 1800-1914

The Leaders of Russia 1800-1914

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Where the people ever happy with their leaders?











Peace, Land and Bread!!

Alexander I: 1801-1825 Russia was mostly an

Agricultural country where feudalism and serfdom and still very much alive.

Nobles had unlimited power and could buy and sell serfs.

Alexander I will die suddenly of a fever.

He was an AUTOCRAT, which is Greek for rule by oneself.





Nicholas I: 1825-1855 Decembrists Revolt: 1825

will be led by army officers (got ideas from Napoleon)

1825-54: Crushed 500 peasant uprisings

Secret police- If you mentioned change or reform you would be arrested.

Little or no eduction took place.







Alexander II: 1855-1881

Crimean War: got beat by Russia on there own soil.

Russia was far behind in technology.





Alexander III: 1881-1894



Serfdom will end in 1861

People would be allowed trials.

Land goes to the nobles.

Alexander gets killed by a bomb.

Nicholas II: 1894-1917



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Nicholas II: 1894-1917

Students will begin to study Karl Marx and communism.

“I shall maintain the principle of autocracy”

An Enlightenment of sorts was taking place.

1904 Russo-Japanese War: the Czar figured a war would shift attention away from their problems to other things.

The Japanese would WIN!

Alexis: a son is born 1904-1917



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The Revolution 1905: 200,000 workers and their families approached the palace

asking for better working conditions.

His Generals ordered that the soldiers fire on the crowd and 500-1000 died.

This was called Sunday Bloody.

The Czar knew that he could no longer ignore the people and established the first DUMA! (like a Parliament)

The Duma will dissolve in 3 months.

Moderates will push for a constitution but Nicholas II will block all attempts. 9

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World War I and Russia 1914-1917: 2 million dead







WWI will UNITE Russia & create National PRIDE

They could not produce enough, many soldiers had no rifles or bullets.

Nicholas II will leave Russia and go to the front. (Why?)

Food and fuel shortages forced Russia out of the war.

People came home wanting bread and peace.

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The Revolutionaries: 1917 They were divided into 2 groups:

Bolsheviks: The majority party led by Lenin and who

wanted to set up a dictatorship. (REDS)This was

an overthrow of the govt.

Mensheviks: The minority who disagreed with the plan of taking

over the government. They wanted to move more slowly

through the use of higher wages, suffrage, and welfare programs.

The Peasants: Social Revolutionaries who

wanted land distributed fairly.

The Industrial Workers: Social Democrats who were embracing Karl Marx’s ideas that the

working class would one day overthrow the ruling

class. (split into 2 groups)

The White Army will fight the Bolsheviks, 1918-1920 15 million die

V.I. Lenin

Brother was

killed for

trying to kill

Tsar.

1917Lenin was Exiled, SiberiaAnd then to Switzerland.



L.Trotsky

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Karl Marx: What is Marxism? QuickTime™ and a decompressor




Karl Marx was trying to develop a critique of society which he claimed was both scientific and revolutionary.

Said that,”Power should be held by workers.” “Workers will unite across national borders to wage

class warfare.” How does that workout?

The theory seeks the elimination of private property in order to gain control of the economic "means of production" by taking it from the bourgeois (the wealthy or propertied class) for the benefit of the proletariat (working class.)

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PEACE LAND AND BREAD

Germany tried to help Lenin return to Russia.

His slogan was “Peace, Land, and Bread”

This was the beginning of the socialist order, first was to divide all the farm land up.

Lenin thought the Socialist revolution was going to spread to Germany.

Germany lost the war and it did not spread.

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Peace, Land and Bread!!

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Treaty of Brest Litovsk 1918:

Russia will adopt a modern calendar in 1918 as they were behind the rest of Europe by 13 days.

1918 Germany will sign Treaty of Brest Litovsk with Germany giving up a huge chunk of land and territory.





Russia lost 300,000 miles

Louisiana purchase was 820,000 miles

Civil War will rage on in Russia for 3 years. Reds vs. White (counter revolutionaries.

The Allies actually Intervened And tried to helpThe whites win.



This did nothing



Rasputin and Cheka: 1916-1919Nicholas II will begin to

prepare for WWI.

This was one of the worst decision of his life.

His son Alexis was a hemophiliac:blood does not clot.

Rasputin: Holy man that will influence the Czarina. (Alexandra)





First head of Cheka

A secret police who executed ordinary citizens, and this iswhen the forced laborcamps came into existence. Later knownas the KGB.



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The scattered foes of the Revolution were defeated by 1921.

This flag will symbolize the union of the workers and the peasants.

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The Leaders of Russia 1800-1914

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