The 1905 Russian Revolution

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The1905Russian Revolution
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Nicholas II The Last Romanov Tsarr. 1894-1917
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Causes of Revolution
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1. Early 20c Russian Social Hierarchy
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2. First Stages of Industrialization
An Early Russian Factory
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3. Weak Economy
1905 Russian Rubles
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4. Extensive Foreign Investments Influence
Building the Trans-Siberian RREconomic benefits
only in a few regions.
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5. Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
The Yellow Peril
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Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

• Imperial rivalry between Japan and Russia over
  Korea and Manchuria
• Japanese surprise attack and take Port Arthur,
  Manchuria from the Russians
• First modern defeat in war of a European power by
  a non-European power
• Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
• Russians left Manchuria
• Japan gained recognition of Korea as part of its
  sphere of influence (i.e., imperialism)
• Japan gained the southern half of Sakhalin Island

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Russia Is Humiliated
Text reads Russian Bear Running Away? Not a
bit of it! Im luring em on!
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Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
President Theodore Roosevelt Acts as the
Peacemaker He gets the Nobel Peace Prize for
his efforts.
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6. Unrest Among the Peasants Urban Working Poor
Father Georgi Gapon
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March on the Winter Palace

• Among long-standing complaints, the people were
  unhappy over Russias defeat in the
  Russo-Japanese War, hunger, famine and poor
  working conditions
• Bloody Sunday (January, 1905)
• Peaceful protesters, led by a priest named Gapon,
  marched on the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
  with a petition
• Shot at by Tsars forces
• 92 dead and hundreds wounded

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Bloody SundayJanuary 22, 1905
The Czars Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
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The Revolution Spreads
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The Battleship Potemkin Mutiny June, 1905
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Results
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1. The Opening of the DumaPossible Reforms?

• August, 1905Duma organized as an advisory body
• But this wasnt well received

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2. The Tsars October Manifesto
October Manifesto Legislative powers for the Duma
and civil liberties for the people
October 30, 1905
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Then The Russian Constitution of 1906

• Known as the Fundamental Laws April 23, 1906.
• The autocracy of the Russian Tsar was declared.
• The Tsar was supreme over the law, the church,
  and the Duma.
• It confirmed the basic human rights granted by
  the October Manifesto, BUT made them subordinate
  to the supremacy of the law.

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• The first two elected Duma were too radical.
• Nicholas II repeatedly butted heads with the Duma
• Socialists and revolutionaries kept winning seats
  so he kept dissolving and reducing its power
• The third duma was elected by the richest people
  in Russia in 1907.

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3. The Path to October, 1917 - Many lessons
have been learned
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What do you think?

• Was 1905 a revolution?