Transcript Joseph Stalin “Man of Steel”

Elvis Presley “The King”
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Tomoaki Kanemoto “Ankiki”
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Vito “Don” Corleone
“The Godfather”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
“schwa chan”
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Aim: How did Russian
leaders earn their
nicknames?
Russia Develops
differently than
Europe - WHY?
Russia Prior to Peter the Great
• Russia develops differently than Europe
– Geographic Barriers Ural Mts., large distances, cold
– NOT Roman Tradition Byzantine
– Cut off from Europe by invaders  Mongols
• Results of Russia’s Isolation From Europe
– Serfdom continues long after towns and cities
have grown in Europe
– Can’t participate in Age of Exploration
• No profits, no colonies, no influence
– Develops Eastern Orthodox Church (not Catholic)
– Russia is poor, technologically underdeveloped
Ivan IV
• Ivan’s Good Period
– Struggles for power with Russia’s boyars - Russian landowning
nobility
– Crowns himself czar
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– Loving
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– Adds
landto see
tothis
Russia
– Creates first code of laws for Russia and rules justly
– BUT THEN….
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• Ivan the Terrible…
– Anastasia dies
• Accuses boyars of poisoning her
– Creates own police force to hunt boyar families and their peasants
– Accidentally kills son in argument abut sons wife
– Ivan dies leaving weak, mentally retarded son to take thrown
Peter The Great (1672 -1725)
Reforms Russia
• “Grand Embassy” Tour
– Visits different countries in
Western Europe (1697)
– Wants to learn abt. the
West
• BECOMES INSPIRED
• Seeks westernization
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Modernized army
Western clothes
Western food
Builds new capital
Where would
You Build a
New Capital
X St. Petersburg
New Capital At St. Petersburg
• Warm water port
–Stronger navy
–Greater trading
Why was St. Petersburg called
“a window on the sea”?
Other Westernizing Reforms
European Style Military
x
No More Beards
Newspapers
Western Clothes
Why might people
object to Peter I’s
reforms?