Transcript Creating Russia - Scott County School District 1

Creating Russia
Slavs & Vikings
Rurik- builds cities like Kiev
Vladimir I- 989 CE
Christianity or Islam?
Mongols Invade
Batu Khan
Rule for over 200 years
Created tributes to Tatar State
Low on $, cannot build
Ivan The Great
 Ivan III
 1480 CE
 Refused to pay tributes
 Created the Kremlin, filled cities with
churches
Ivan The Terrible
 Ivan IV
 1533 CE
 Began conquest & Colonialization of Siberia
 “Reign of Terror”
 First Czar (Supreme Ruler)
Romanov Dynasty
 1613 CE
 Rule for 304 years
 1698 CE- Peter the Great
 Western Society- cut beards of
nobles
 Revolutionary Ideas -stronger
military, expanded territory,
developed trade with Western
Europe
 New Capital created St. Petersburg
“A window into the West”
 1760 CE- Catherine the Great
 Continued Peter’s reforms
Napoleon Invades
 1812 CE- Russian Winter
 Czar Alexander II
The Alexander's
 Freed serfs in 1861, no education, moved to cities
 Russification- made people convert, follow eastern orthodox Christianity,
speech, persecutions
 1891 Czar Alexander III
 Expansion into Siberia
 Construction of Trans-Siberian RR
 Completed 1916
Pre- Russian Revolution
Only true autocracy left in
Europe
No type of representative
political institutions
Nicholas II -Tsar in 1884
Divine Right
Backlash of poverty and
Russification
Revolution broke out in 1905
Russian Revolution
Socialism- Belief of greater
economic equality in society
Discontented working class
Vast majority of workers
concentrated in St. Petersburg
and Moscow
Poor peasants
No individual land ownership
Russian Revolution Cont.
Russia industrialized
On backs of the peasants
Military mutinies, social unrest,
strikes
1905 Revolution: Middle Class
Duma
October Manifesto
Fundamental Law
Karl Marx
Communism
Advocated public ownership
of all land
Classless Society
Equal sharing of wealth
Alexandra: The Power Behind the
Throne
Husband a weak man
Committed more autocracy
than her husband
Pogroms, politicians
murdered
Rasputin- Man behind
Alexandra
Healer, Alexandra’s right
hand
WWI
Strikes
Corrupt military leadership and
contempt for ordinary Russian
people
Average peasant has very little
invested in the War
WWI Cont.
Poorly supplied troops
Result: Chaos and
Disintegration of the
Russian Army
Spreading Discontent
WWI Cont
Nicholas leaves for the Front—
September, 1915
Alexandra and Rasputin throw
the government into chaos
accused of treason
March Revolution
 March Revolution
Food Riots and Strikes
Duma become provisional gov’t
March 17th Czar abdicated
All for Soviets
Vladimir Lenin
 Founder of Bolshevism (Communist party)
 Exiled to Siberia, moved to London
 Once Provisional gov’t failed, swept in and
took over
 “Peace, Land, and Bread”
 “All Power to the Soviets”
November Revolution: Red Army
vs. White Army
 Political Police organized: CHEKA
 Revolutionary army created with Trotsky in charge
-- “Red Army”
 Bolshevik Party renamed Communist Party in March of 1918
 Fought against “White Army” the old guard
Bolsheviks Win
 1922- creating Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR
 Regain Land
 Death of Lenin 1924- 3 strokes
Beginning of Stalin and
Superpower
 Creation of industrial giant
 Controlled farms and factories
 Millions killed, starved
 WWII- created world power
 Cold War- Nuclear weapons,
propaganda, aid to countries
Fall of Soviet Union
 Workers Wages, spoils of
leaders
 Gorbachev- changes for the
better
 1989 Satellites overthrown
 1991 Independence of all
countries
 Market Economy
 Outdated Factories, Agriculture
 Vladimir Putin